Urbanization, Immigration, and Political Reforms in the Late 19th Century Flashcards
Fought against New York’s corrupt Tammany Hall
Governor Grover Cleveland
Used by President Grover Cleveland to challenge corrupt big business
Tariff Reform
Signed by President Cleveland in 1887
Interstate Commerce Commission Act
Prohibited European intervention in the Western Hemisphere in 1823
Monroe Doctrine
Prohibited European intervention in the Western Hemisphere in 1823
Monroe Doctrine
Justified US intervention in Latin American nations
Roosevelt Corollary
Announced by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 for China
Open Door Policy
Established by Roosevelt to regulate corporations
Bureau of Corporations
Socialist who polled almost 900,000 votes in 1912
Eugene Debs
From 8 million to 30 million between 1865 and 1900
Urban Population Growth
Southern and Eastern Europeans in northern industrial cities
New Immigrants
Six to eight stories tall, lacking elevators, fresh air, and natural light
Tenement Apartment Buildings
Tried to restore ‘Hawaii for the Hawaiians’ in 1891
Queen Liliuokalani
Sank on Feb 15, 1898, killing 266 men
U.S.S. Maine
Revolt of nationalist Chinese against foreign involvement in China in 1900
Boxer Rebellion
Leader in the crusade against child labor
Florence Kelley
Spearheaded by the Womens Christian Temperance Union in the 1880s and 1890s
Anti-Liquor Movement
146 women died in the flames due to lack of fire escapes
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Upton Sinclair’s account of working in a filthy Chicago meatpacking plant (1906)
The Jungle
Invited to the White House by Roosevelt in 1901
Booker T. Washington
Reversed many of Roosevelt’s conservation policies
President Taft
What were the alliances before World War 1?
Russia and Serbia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria-Central Powers, France and Russia and Britain- Allied Powers.
Where did the Allied and Central Powers battle each other?
On the Western Front.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
A message from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman to the ambassador, offering Mexico lost territory if it allied with Germany against the United States.
