Unit 6 Flashcards
Muckraker who scarred readers with his account of the food packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
NAACP
Started by black and white reformers
Used by Rosavelt to fire 44 antitrust suits
Sherman antitrust act
Halted sale of contaminated food or drugs and called for labeling truth
Pure food and drug act
Square deal
What Rosavelt promised the people
Rosavelt
A president famous for hunting and the bullypulpit
In the 1800s a majority of women worked as
Servants
What was not employed by women suffragists to obtain their goal
Work strikes
Progressive movement
Contained a series of reform efforts that aimed to correct injustices in American life
Initiative
A bill initiated or launched by the citizens
16th amendment
Congress can income tax
17th amendment
Direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote
18th amendment
Prohibited alcohol :( was repealed
19th amendment
Women can vote
21th amendment
Repeals the 18th amendment
Muckrakers
Writers who exposed government abuses and big business corruption
Suzette laFlesche
Native American woman who spoke out for Ponca people
Suffrage
Denial of the right to vote
Susan b Anthony
Leader of first woman’s sufferage movement
Progressivism did not promote
Monopolies
Who was not active in the women’s sufferage movement
Florence Kelly
The jungle
Upton Sinclair, exposes meat packing industry
First bully pulpit
Theodore Rosavelt
Requires truthful labels
Pure food and drug act
NAACP goal
Equality among races
Election of 1912, least favored candidate
William h Taft
What was not a result of assembly lines
Decreased productivity
Who gained most from the ratification of the 17th amendment
Regular citizens
Primary goal of prohibitionists
Eliminate use of alcohol in society
Why were early anti child labor acts ineffective
Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional
Rosavelts position on trusts
Some trusts were harmful to the public interest
Gifford Pinchot
Multi use land program was possible
What led to rafts defeat in 1912
His failure to unify the Republican Party
Primary motivation for 16th amendment
Replace re inure lost by upon acting lower tariffs
World war 1 effects on sufferage
Hastened ratification of 19th
Sugar cane owners in Hawaii wanted annexation cuz
Didn’t want to pay duty on the sugar they exported
How did the rapid growth of the USA fuel imperialism
USA needed raw materials for factories and new markets for goods.
Who negotiated purchase of Alaska from Russia
William Seward
Who was not an imperial power in late 1800s
China
Who urged U.S. Officials to build a navy to compete with other powers
Alfred t Mayan
What did not simulate U.S. imperialism
Need for new cheep labor
Who was head of Hawaiian gov after the queen was overthrown
Stanford b dole
Where was the first battle of the Spanish American war take place
Phillipeans
First incident that started the Spanish American war
USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor
What war ended with the the treaty of pairs in 1898
Spanish American
Who told Fredric Remington “you furnish the pieces, I’ll furnish the war”
William Randolph Hearst
Jose Martin organized guerrilla attacks to destroy American owned property in Cuba in order to
Provoke U.S. intervention in Cuba
How did U.S. newspapers help fuel American sympathy for intervention in Cuba
Publishers provided articles in support of Cuban Revolution to weaken Spain
Boxer rebellion
Attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to remove foreign influence in China
Foraker act
End military rule and set up a government in Puerto Rico
U.S. Military was not involved in the
Russo-Japanese war
Why did the philipenos feel betrayed after the treaty of Paris
It called for American annexation of the phillipeans
What countries residents became part of the USA in 1917
Puerto Rico
What did the U.S. Insist that Cuba includes in its constitution
The platt amendment
Panama Canal built during his presidency
Theodore Rosavelt
During this presidency, U.S. And Mexico almost went to war
Woodrow Wilson
Led Americans into Mexico in persuit of Mexican revolutionary leader
John j Pershing
U.S. Government guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people
Dollar diplomacy
Big stick diplomacy, distorter in Latin America would let the U.S. Send military to protect our interests
Rosavelt corollary
Transcontinental railroad
Connected the east to the west by rails
Allows transport
Union Pacific
In charge of building near the west coast
Chinese workers
Helped build the railroad
Homestead act
Encouraged western migration by providing -160 acres of free farming land
Native American reservations
Parts of the us which were designated for the native Americans.
Beat up towns
Central pacific
Another of the companies responsible for the transcontinental railroad
Interstate commerce act
Regulates railroad industry
Triangle factory
Caught on fire and promoted the safety codes and worker laws
W.E.B Dubois
Poet and author who supported the civil rights movement
