| A | B |
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| Progressive Movement | reform effort that addressed the problems of big business, the cities, and workers |
| muckrakers | writers during the Progressive Era who wrote about bad conditions in cities and factories |
| Upton Sinclair | Muckraker who wrote The Jungle |
| Jacob Riis | muckraker who was a photo-journalist |
| Jane Addams | founded Hull House and the settlement house movement |
| Teddy Roosevelt | known as the "Trustbuster" |
| Hepburn Act | passed to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Act |
| Interstate Commerce Act | passed in 1887 to regulate the railroads |
| Newlands Reclamation Act | passed in the Progressive Era to provide irrigation out west |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | passed as a reaction to the book The Jungle |
| Margaret Sanger | founder of the modern birth control movement |
| Dr. Alice Paul | woman suffragette who chained herself to the White House fence in WWI |
| Clayton Act | passed in 1914 to strengthen the Sherman Anti-trust Act |
| Federal Trade Commission | passed in 1914 to regulate truth in advertising |
| 16th amendment | created the income tax to provide the government with a source of income |
| 17th amendment | provided for the direct election of senators |
| 18th amendment | Prohibition; made alcohol illegal |
| 19th amendment | provided for women's suffrage |
| Federal Reserve Act | established our national banking system that regulates our money supply |
| W.E.B. DuBois | a founder of the NAACP; wanted Blacks to demand more rights |
| Booker T. Washington | supported accomodation by Blacks; tolerated segregation |
| Progressive tax | says the more one makes the more they pay |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea the U.S. had a God-given right to expand |
| An important reason that justified expansion in the 1890s | it would be good for business by creating new markets |
| Yellow Journalism | using sensationalism to sell newspapers |
| U.S.S. Maine | American ship that exploded and sank in Havana, Cuba in 1898 |
| DeLome Letter | insulted Pres. McKinley and helped lead to war with Spain in 1898 |
| Alaska | purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million |
| Hawaii | annexed by the U.S. as a territory in 1898 |
| Capt. Alfred Mahan | wrote the Influence of Sea Power on History; said the U.S. needed coaling stations |
| imperialism | taking over other areas as colonies |
| Philippines | bought from Spain for $20 million after the Spanish-American War |
| Platt Amendment | said the U.S. could send troops into Cuba any time to keep peace |
| Open Door Policy | said China was open to trade with all nations and must be respected as a nation |
| Boxer Rebellion | Chinese rebelled against foreigners in 1900 |
| Roosevelt Corollary | said the U.S. is the "policeman" of this hemisphere (Big Stick Policy) |
| Good Neighbor Policy | under FDR this said the U.S. should not intefere with Latin American nations |
| Woodrow Wilson said World War I was the "War to ______" | end all wars |
| Pres. Wilson said the U.S. entered WWI to "make the world safe for ___" | democracy |
| Fourteen Points | Pres. Wilson's proposal for a better world after World War I |
| League of Nations | organization that Pres. Wilson wanted to create after WWI |
| Eugene Debs | Socialist labor leader arrested during WWI for speaking out against the war |
| Sedition Act | made it illegal during WWI to criticize the war effort |
| Victory Garders | people made these in WWI to help out the war effort |
| Espionage Act | gave the president broad powers of censorship during World War I |
| Schenck v. the U.S. | established the "clear and present danger" principle about limiting free speech |
| Zimmerman Note | secret deal that Germany offered to Mexico during WWI |
| Lusitania | British ship sunk in 1915 with Americans on board |
| After WWI began in 1914, the U.S. tried to remain ___. | neutral |
| U-Boats | German submarines |
| Rejected the Treaty of Versailles | the U.S. Senate |
| The Senate rejection of the Treaty of Versailles is an example of this | checks and balances |
| isolationism | policy of not getting involved in world affairs |
| Red Scare | a fear of communism |
| Palmer Raids | a Red Scare that happened after WWI |
| National Origins Act of 1924 | placed strict quotas on immigration |
| Dollar Diplomacy | idea used by Pres. Taft of using U.S. economic influence to control Latin Ameircan nations |
| The U.S. became this as a result of WWI | a creditor nation |
| Scopes Trial | involved a teacher tried for teaching about evolution |
| Ku Klux Klan | had a big revival in the 1920s and turned against immigrants |
| Black Tuesday | the day the stock market crashed in 1929 |
| The biggest problem farmers faced in the 1920s and 1930s | overproduction |
| New Deal | name for FDR's plan to help fight the Great Depression |
