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a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; | Bull Moose Party |
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. | Federal Reserve Act |
provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; Attempts to prohibit certain actions that lead to anti-competitiveness | Clayton Antitrust Act |
state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. | Jim Crow Laws |
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | Imperialism |
a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuba William Randolph Hearst United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism | Spanish-American War |
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism | William Randolph Hearst |
Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World | Joseph Pulitzer |
battleship commissioned in 1895 that was part of the new U.S. Navy fleet of steel ships. It exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 | USS Maine |
canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade | Panama Canal |
organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. | Anti-Imperialism League |
was an American proposal that aimed to keep Chinese markets open for all and not allow any one country to gain control over the region | Open Door Policy |
was an anti-imperialist uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty. | Boxer Rebellion |
states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. | Roosevelt Corollary |
idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military | “Big Stick” Diplomacy |