Supreme Court decision that stated American laws may not be acquired in territories
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
Used to justify American intervention in Latin America
Platt Amendment
Guaranteed US the virtual right of Cuba
Muckrakers
Journalists who wanted to expose social problems
USS Maine
US ship that exploded in Havana Harbor
Open Door Policy
Argued for free trade in China
World War I
Marked the end of progressivism
1902 Coal Strike
Labor dispute in which the government sided with the labor
Russo-Japanese War
Roosevelt was awarded Nobel prize for helping settle war in North Korea
Ray Stannard Baker
Muckraker who wrote about condition of blacks
Woodrow Wilson
His domestic policy favored small business & entrepreneurship
Meat Packing Industry
Subject of The Jungle
Dollar Diplomacy
Name for Taft's foreign policy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Argued that sea power was necessary for naval forces
Queen Liliuokalani
Wanted to maintain native Hawai'i
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker who exposed the ruthless business practices of Rockefeller
Square Deal
Name of TR's progressive reform
Latin America
Main reason for US involvement for debts to Europe
Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt term for power of presidency
William Jennings Bryan
Candidate for president that said imperialism was the chief concern
Trust-busting
Practice used by Roosevelt to regulate monopolies by big business
Howard Taft
Continued Roosevelt's Square Deal
Teller Amendment
Law that guaranteed Cuban independence
17th Amendment
Allowed direct election of senetors
Boxer Rebellion
Attempted to expel all foreigners from arriving
Root-Takahira Agreement
Stated that US and Japan would respect each other's territories
Progressive Movement
Involved both political parties, all levels of government, all regions.
Mexico
Wilson sent US troops here to track down a murderer
New Freedom
Wilson's domestic program
New Nationalism
Philosophy supporting a broad program of social reform
19th Amendment
Woman Suffrage
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist nominee for president in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic 1912 presidential nominee
18th Amendment
Provides for prohibition
Elkins & Hepburn Act
Laws cast to regulate railroad communications
Initiative
Enabled citizens to draft laws
Referendum
Provides for a popular vote on laws passed by lawmakers
Graft (stealing)
Progressives wanted to end this practice
Taft
Republican presidential candidate in 1912
16th Amendment
Established a federal income tax
Prohibition
Progressive goal
Louis Brandeis
First Jew to sit in Supreme Court
David Graham Phillips
Muckraker who wrote about corruption in Congress
American Naval Troops
Blocked Colombian troops from crossing the Isthmus and crushing Panamanians
Recall
Allowed citizens to remove officials from office
Lincoln Stephens
a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is famous for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive party representative for president in 1912