A | B |
William McKinley | President assassinated in 1898 |
Pacifist | a person who favors no political party |
The Jungle | Book written by Upton Sinclair against insanitary conditions in meatpacking plants |
Nationalist | person with strong loyalty to his country and advocates for independence |
Charles Sumner | Helped approve the alaska treaty with his speeches |
Platt Amendment | Created a permanent treaty with Cuba |
Yellow Journalism | Sensational form of journalism used to sell the U.S. people on war |
Rough Riders | Volunteer force started by Theodore Roosevelt that was given much credit for the Spanish American War victory |
Newlands Reclamaion Act | The 1902 act that pushed Roosevelt's conservation program |
Hepburn Act | This act gave the ICC power over pipelines, ferries, terminals, and bridges, forbade railroad rebates, an allowed the ICC to lower rates if shippers complained |
Tariffs | The Underwood-Simmons bill reformed what |
Federal Trade Commission | This commission regulated business practices |
Theodore Roosevelt | Which president said, "Speak softly but carry a big stick?" |
Roosevelt Corollary | Policy that extended the Monroe Doctrine |
Dollar Diplomacy | Foreign policy of Taft and Wilson |
Liberty Loans | To mobilize for war the U.S. government sold |
Southern Europe | The spark that began WWI occured in what region |
Selective Service Act | The registration of men between the ages of 21 and 31 |
Farmers | Prices for crops dropped for which U.S. population |
War Industries Board | This board made decisions about which goods should be produced during WWI |
Bernard Baruch | Ruthless American economic leader during WWI |
Civil liberties | These liberties were diminished during WWI |
Treaty of Versailles | Wilson appealed directly to the American people for the passge of what |
League of Nations | Americans opposed joining this international body for fear of being dragged into European affairs |
T.S. Eliot | Poet who wrote "The Wasteland." |
Charles Lindbergh | Made the first solo flight from New York to Paris |
Henry Ford | Used the assembly line to revolutionize the way cars were made |
National Origins Act | Reduced immigrants quotas |
Kansas City | The first shopping center was built in what city |
Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian immigrants accused of holding up a factory, killing a paymaster, and killing a guard |