Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
36 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Ida Tarbell |
She wrote about the Standard oil monopoly |
|
|
Uptown Sinclair |
Wrote The Jungle abot conditions in meat factories |
|
|
Muckrakers |
Investigative journalist |
|
|
16th Amendment |
Progressive income tax |
|
|
17th Amendment |
Direct election of Senetors |
|
|
18th Amendment |
Prohibition of Alcohol |
|
|
19th Amendment |
Women can vote |
|
|
Poll tax |
an annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some southern states by anyone wishing to vote |
|
|
Jim Crow laws |
Laws enacted by southern state local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. |
|
|
Grandfather Clause |
Technically was to discourage the black to vote. Was for the white people to not have to take The poll tax and the poll test based on if their grandfather voted. But if they didn't then they would have to take the test and pay poll tax. Loop hole. |
|
|
Meat Inspection act |
Laws that are strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat inspection program. |
|
|
Progressive party |
Teddy Roosevelts party which wanted to improve and progress from the Gilded age and industrialization. |
|
|
Federal Reserve Act |
Government regulates bank and interest rate. |
|
|
Monroe Doctrine |
A policy to extend, U.S. dominance in Americas |
|
|
Alfred T. Mahan |
He wanted a large navy and supportive of imperialism |
|
|
Queen Liliuokalani |
The queen of Hawaii who was against U.S. Control and was put in jail and got her country taken away from her. |
|
|
Yellow journalism |
U.S. Reporters that wrote about Spanish cruelt, wanted to go to war. |
|
|
U.S.S. Maine |
Immediate cause of war. It is a ship that explodes, and blamed on Spain. |
|
|
Emilio Aguinaldo |
He led the war against the U.S. He was a Phillipino, and was anti- imperialist |
|
|
Rough Riders |
Teddy Roosevelts military group in the Spanish-American war |
|
|
Platt Amendment |
U.S gave Cuba independence but kept some control over economy, right of intervention, and built Guantanamo base. |
|
|
Open door policy |
U.S wanted economic access to china but they established the idea of free trade instead. |
|
|
Panama Canal |
panama revolted with the U.S support it gave the U.S middle part of the country but was built for trade. The
|
|
|
Dollar diplomacy |
U.S foreign policy in Central America connected to economic interest. U.S control in Central America it is supporting financial interests not democracy. |
|
|
Nationalism |
The balkans were many ethnic groups that wanted independence. Germany was holy empire now united and expanding. |
|
|
Lusitania |
Was a British passenger ship with 128 Americans on board over 1000 people |
|
|
Zimmerman note |
A telegram from Germany sent to Mexico asking them to join war against the U.S. On April 2, 1917 the U.S. Entered the war. |
|
|
War industries board. |
Leader was Bernard Baruch and it was to focus economy on war production |
|
|
Selective service act |
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
|
|
|
Committee on public information |
Generate support for the war
|
|
|
Espionage and sedition Acts |
Government was trying to reduce dissent |
|
|
Great migration |
Many black people moved from rural south to the urban north wartime jobs |
|
|
Fourteen points |
Wilson plans to make lasting peace |
|
|
League on nations |
A group that would protect self determination of smaller nations try to prevent future wars |
|
|
Treaty of Versailles |
Punish Germany had to pay for reparations lost land and cloonies, no military and had to sign a war guilt clause |
|
|
Palmer raids |
Capture leftist |
