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| Jose Marti | Leader of the Cuban resistance to Spain |
| White Man's Burdern | The idea that Anglo-Saxon culture was superior to all others |
| Albert Beveridge | Crusader who felt it was America's duty to "civilize" the world |
| Alfred Mahan | Wrote a book arguing that large navies were the key to dominating the Earth |
| Income Tax | It's the subject of the 16th Amendment |
| Direct Election of Senators | The subject of the 17th Amendment |
| Prohibition | Subject of the 18th Amendment |
| Women's Suffrage | Subject of the 19th Amendment |
| Repeal of Prohibition | Subject of the 21st Amendment |
| Initiative | Progressive reform that allows citizens to introduce legislative ideas on their own |
| Referendum | Progressive reform that allows the people to accept or reject a law passed by the legislature |
| Recall | Progressive reform that allows people to end the terms of public officials before they are actually up |
| Direct Primary | Progressive reform that allows the people to choose the candidates for the general election |
| Robert LaFollette | Leader of the Progressives |
| Wisconsin Idea | The general name for the gensis of Progressive concepts |
| Northern Securities Company versus The United States | Supreme Court case that said the federal government could break up trusts |
| Muller versus Oregon | Supreme Court decision that said women were child bearers and therefore entitled to work fewer hours in a day |
| Hepburn Act | Law that regulated railroads |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Law that prohibited the use of diseased products or medicinal materials that weren't actually good for you |
| THE JUNGLE | The novel that the author said was "Aimed at America's Heart but hit its Stomach" |
| Leon Czlogosz | President McKinley's Assassin |
| Upton Sinclair | Author of the muckraking book "The Jungle" |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Who agreed with John Hay's description of the Spanish-American War as a "splendid little war" |
| Monroe Doctrine | Presidential edict that declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to Europeans |
| William McKinley | The American President who reluctantly declared war on Spain |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Monarch of Hawaii that the United States overthrew |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | The naval officer who "opened" Japan to U.S. trade |
| Rough Riders | Teddy Roosevelt's outfit in the Spanish-American War |
| Manifest Destiny | God chose the U.S. to control the entire North American continent |
| Imperialism | The pursuit of colonies |
| Yellow Journalism | Sensationalist, not necessarily, true newspaper reporting |
| Roosevelt Corollary | The addendum to the Monroe Doctrine |
| Seward's Folly | It's what Alaska was known as - at least until gold was discovered |
| U.S.S. Maine | It's the ship that blew up in Havana Harbor which led to the U.S. involvement in Cuba |
| China | Where were the European powers and the U.S. squabbling about who got to trade where |
| Brooklyn Bridge | This famous New York landmark was opened May 24, 1883 |
| Steel | It's what America's industrial might was based on |
| Social Darwinism | Philosophy that says if you're poor it is because you are less capable that others around you |
| Cross of Gold | What was the famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan in 1896 called |
| Andrew Carnigie | He claimed a man's life is split into two parts: in the first part you make money and the second part is dedicated to giving it away |
| John D. Rockefeller | The Titan of Standard Oil |
| Thomas Edison | America's inventor extraordinaire |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He invented the telephone |
| Gustavus Swift | He invented the refridgerated railroad car making processed food transportation possible |
| Department Store | What retail concept do we have John Wannamaker to thank for |
| Chain Store | A retail outlet like J.C. Penney |
| Horizontal Integration | Owning all of one type of business - all the gas stations in town for example |
| Vertical Integration | Owning everything in the chain of production: the oil field, the refinery, the trucks to move it to your gas station |
| Merger | Combining one business with another |
| Twenty Million Dollars | How much did America pay Spain for the privilege of defeating them in battle |
| Columbia | Panama was "owned" by this South American country |
| Disease | It's how most men died in the Spanish-American War |
| Trade | Carl Schurz, and others, felt future wars would be fought over this issue |
| John Hay | The Secretary of State who insisted on the "Open Door" policy in China |
| U.S. Navy | This was President Roosevelt's "big stick" |
| The Panama Canal | It was euphamistically called the "big ditch" |
| Nobel Peace Prize | President Roosevelt was awarded this for his role in stopping the Sino-Soviet War |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Using money, rather than bullets, to get your way in foreign relations |
| Booker T. Washington | President Roosevelt was criticized for having lunch with this African-American in the White House |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | The anti-alcohol organization which advocated prohibition |
| John Pierpont Morgan | He was so rich that when there was a financial crisis, he personally lent the United States government $62 million in gold - to prevent a financial panic |
| John Muir | He was the leading advocate of conservation and setting aside pristine forest lands |
| Grand Canyon | It was the first national park in the United States |
| Argentina Brazil Columbia | The ABC Powers |
| Bull Moose Party | The nickname for the Progressive Party |
| Resource Management | Balancing the use and conservation of nature at the same time |
| Arbitration | A settlement of a dispute imposed by an outside party |
| Trust | It is another name for a monopoly |
| Holding Company | A firm that exists just to keep stock in other businesses |
| Clayton Act | This law put "teeth" into the anti-trust laws |
| Mann Elkins Act | This law regulated communications to ensure univeral access |
| Federal Trade Commission | Regulates commerce |
| Underwood Tariff Act | Lowered duties to try and stimulate foreign trade |
| Federal Reserve Act | Established our central bank and monetary system that we have today |
