| A | B |
|---|
| Dawes Act 1887 | Reduced tribal connection, gave private land, attempt to assimilate Native Americans, boarding schools |
| Social Gospel- religious movement | people must care for each other, take care of the poor |
| Progressives- political movement | industry reform, more political power (direct election of senators, women voting), social reforms by the government |
| Assimilation | Immigrants (and Native Americans) should blend in to society |
| Red Scare | Fear of Communism after WWI (and fear of immigrants) |
| Nativism | America first, anti-immigrant |
| Open Door Policy | Free trade with China for all nations |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft- build relations with Central America to help American Businesses |
| Moral Diplomacy | Wilson- help other nations because it is the right thing to do |
| Teller Amendment | Self-rule promised to Cuba |
| Big Stick Diplomacy | Teddy Roosevelt- US would intervene in Central America if needed, imperialism, Policeman of the World |
| White Man's Burden | Kipling's poem that supported imperialism by America |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | Progressive reform to clean up the food industry and protect consumers |
| W.E.B. DuBois | opponent of Booker T. Washington, African-Americans needed education and political power, NAACP |
| Child Labor Laws | Not constitutional according to the Supreme Court |
| WWI | Allies and Central Powers, causes, US Declaration of War |
| War Industries Board, Food Administration, Espionage Act, Sedition Act | Increased government power during WWI |
| Spanish American War | USS Maine, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Cuba, McKinley |
| Treaty of Versailles and 14 point plan | Punished Germany, not approved by US senate, created ineffective League of Nations |
| Albert Bereridge | Imperialist Senator |
| Post WWI | America debated world involvement/isolationism, Red Scare, anti-immigration sentiments increased |
| 19th amendment | Women's right to vote |
| National Origins Act 1924 | Immigration law that set quotas based on population from 1890 census |
| Immigration 1890-1910 | Industrial jobs, political freedom, Southern and Eastern Europeans |
| Progressive Party- 1912 | Split the Republican Vote: Wilson wins |
| Roosevelt's square deal | environment, trust busting, consumer protection |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Nativist legislation to keep Chinese out of America in the 1880's and for decades after |
| Jacob Riis | Muckraker- exposed poverty and poor living conditions |
| Upton Sinclair- The Jungle | Muckraking, led to Pure food and drug Act |
| Populists | Precursors to Progressives, Power to farmers- not business and banking, William Jennings Bryan, Silver based currency so more money available, regulate railroads, secret ballot elections |
