Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912 - 1916
The War to End War, 1917-1918
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| 670019791 | Progressive Movement | fought against monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social justice in the early 20th century | |
| 670019792 | Greenback Labor Party | Political party that farmers sought refuge in at first, combined inflationary appeal of earlier Greenabackers w/ program for improving labor | |
| 670019793 | Populist Party | U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other monopolies | |
| 670019794 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | He wrote the book "Wealth Against Commonwealth" in 1894. It was part of the progressive movement and the book's purpose was to show the wrong in the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company. | |
| 670019795 | Thorstein Veblen | economist, wrote Theory of the Leisure Class, condemned conspicuous consumerism, where status is displayed and conveyed through consumption. | |
| 670019796 | muckrakers | Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public | |
| 670019797 | Jacob A Riis | the New York Sun reporter who shocked middle-class Americans in 1890 with How the Other Half Lives, a damning indictment of the dirt, disease, vice and misery of the New York slums | |
| 670019798 | Theodore Dreiser | American naturalist who wrote The Financier and The Titan. Like Riis, he helped reveal the poor conditions people in the slums faced and influenced reforms. | |
| 670019799 | Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes | |
| 670019800 | Lillian Wald | considered mother of public health nursing in U.S.; most effective way to bring health care to poor immigrant population was to live and work among them | |
| 670019801 | Lincoln Steffens | Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities. | |
| 670019802 | Ida M Tarbell | journalist who published a devastating but factual expose of the Standard Oil Company | |
| 670019803 | David G Phillips | published "The Treason of the Senate" in Cosmopolitan, said that 75 out of the 90 senators represented railroads and trusts rather than the people | |
| 670019804 | John Spargo | Wrote The Bitter Cry of the Children exposing child labor | |
| 670019805 | Dr. Harvey W Wiley | exposed the frauds that sold potent patent medicines by experimenting on himself | |
| 670019806 | "initiative" | allowed all citizens to introduce a bill into the legislative and required members to take a vote on it | |
| 670019807 | "referendum" | The name given to the political process in which the general public votes on an issue of public concern. | |
| 670019808 | "recall" | the act of removing an official by petition | |
| 670019809 | 17th Amendment | Direct Election of Senators | |
| 670019810 | city manager system | designed to take politics out of municiple administration | |
| 670019811 | Robert M La Follette | progressive wisconsin govenor whose adgenda of reforms was known as the wisconsin idea | |
| 670019812 | Gov. Hiram W Johnson | regulate railroads and trusts, such as Oregon and California | |
| 670019813 | Charles Evans Hughes | investigated the malpractices of gas and insurance companies (NY) | |
| 670019814 | Triangle Shirtwaist Co | fire at this company killed 146 workers in 1911, mostly women | |
| 670019815 | Muller v. Oregon | 1908 - Supreme Court upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health | |
| 670019816 | Lochner v New York | overturns new york law setting 8 hr maximum working hours for bakery workers- 1905 | |
| 670019817 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union | an organization that blamed alcohol for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children, and fought against it. | |
| 670019818 | 18th Amendment | prohibited the sale and drinking of alcohol | |
| 670019819 | Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 presidential campaign slogan pledging to balance the interests of business, consumers, and labor | |
| 670019820 | Department of Commerce and Labor | TR est. this dept armed with the Bureau of Corporations meant to probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce and clearing the road for trust-busting era | |
| 670019821 | Interstate Commerce Commission | government agency organized to oversee railroad commerce | |
| 670019822 | Elkins Act | fined railroads that gave rebates and shippers that accepted them | |
| 670019823 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. | |
| 670019824 | Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs | |
| 670019825 | Desert Land Act of 1877 | earth conservation act: government sold arid land cheaply on the condition that the purchaser irrigate the soil within three years | |
| 670019826 | Forest Reserve Act | 1891 - authorized president to set aside land for national parks | |
| 670019827 | Aldrich- Vreeland Act | it authorized national banks to issue emergency currency, was the precursor of the Federal Reserve Act | |
| 670019828 | Federal Reserve Act | Regulated banking to help small banks stay in business. A move away from laissez-faire policies, it was passed by Wilson. | |
| 670019829 | WIlliam Taft | 27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term. | |
| 670019830 | Payne-Aldrich Bill | bill placed on high tariffs on many imports (Taft betrayed the promise of his campaign to lower tariffs) | |
| 670019831 | Richard Ballinger | Taft's Secretary of the Interior, allowed a private group of business people to obtain several million acres of Alaskan public lands | |
| 670019832 | National Progressive Republican League | led by La Follette; nominated TR in presidential elections 1912 | |
| 694393383 | Woodrow Wilson | President of the US, militant progressive and professor, led the US into WWI | |
| 694393384 | William Jennings Bryan | supported Wilson in 1912 election | |
| 694393385 | New Freedom | Democratic platform in 1912, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters | |
| 694393386 | New Nationalism | Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice | |
| 694393387 | The Promise of American Life | This book by Herbert Croly contained many of the ideas that Roosevelt preached in his Bull Moose campaign, under his New Nationalism creed. "Hamltonian means to achieve Jefersonians ends" | |
| 694393388 | Eugene V Debs | led the Pullman strike and founded the American Railway Union Socialist candidate in 1912 | |
| 694393389 | Triple wall of privilege | The banks, trusts, and tariffs that Wilson pledged to topple | |
| 694393390 | Underwood Tariff | 1913 tariff reduced average tariff duties by almost 15% and established a graduated income tax | |
| 694393391 | 16th Amendment | Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income | |
| 694393392 | Panic of 1907 | A serious economic panic and recession that demonstrated the government's lack of control over the industrial economy | |
| 694393393 | Louis D Brandeis | Leading progressive reformer and the first Jew named to the U.S. Supreme Court | |
| 694393394 | Federal Reserve Board | new banking system proposed by Wilson which gave the public a measure of control | |
| 694393395 | Federal Trade Commission Act | A federal statute which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts in advertising and other trade areas | |
| 699872290 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act | New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions | |
| 699872293 | Workingmen's Compensation Act | 1916 this law granted assistance to federal civil-service employees during periods of disability. It was a precursor to labor-friendly legislation passed during the New Deal. | |
| 699872295 | Adamson Act | 1916, established 8 hour workday | |
| 699872298 | Dollar diplomacy | President Taft's policy of linking American business interests to diplomatic interests abroad | |
| 699872300 | Virgin Islands | Caribbean territory purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1917 | |
| 699872302 | Gen. Victoriano Huerta | Indian revolutionary president of Mexico; collapsed in July 1914 under pressure from Argentina, Brazil, and Chile; succeeded by Venustiano Carranza | |
| 699872304 | Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Mexican revolutionary that led a rebellion against Carranza, new leader of Mexico, and his followers also killed American troops | |
| 699872305 | ABC powers | The South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, which attempted to mediate a dispute between Mexico and the United States in 1914. | |
| 699872306 | Gen. John J Pershing | the US General that led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. | |
| 699872307 | Kaiser Wilhem II | German emperor in World War I, blamed for starting the Great War. Last emperor of Germany | |
| 699872308 | Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies | |
| 699872309 | U boats | German submarines used in World War I. | |
| 699872310 | Lusitania | British passenger liner that was sunk by the German U-boats; American lives were lost. made America consider entering WWI | |
| 699872311 | Sussex pledge | A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning. | |
| 699872312 | Charles Evans Hughes | He was a Republican governor of New York who was a reformer. He was later a supreme court justice who ran for President against Woodrow Wilson in 1916. | |
| 699872313 | unrestricted submarine warfare | A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters | |
| 699872314 | Zimmerman note | message that contained a German proposal to Mexico for an anti-American alliance | |
| 699872315 | Jeanette Ranking | first women from Montana elected to congress; voted against war (both world wars) | |
| 699872316 | Fourteen Points Address | No more secret treaties. Freedom of the seas was to be maintained. A removal of economic barriers among nations. Reduction of armament burdens. Adjustment of colonial claims in the interests of natives and colonizers, Self-determination, League of Nations | |
| 699872317 | Self determination | The right of people to choose their own form of government. | |
| 699872318 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. | |
| 699872319 | Committee on Public Information | headed by George Creel, its job was to sell the war in America | |
| 699872320 | Espionage Act | 1917 act gave the government new ways to combat spying | |
| 699872321 | Sedition Act | 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government | |
| 699872322 | William D Haywood | leader of IWW; convicted under Espionage Act. | |
| 699872323 | Bernard Baruch | established the War Industries Board in 1917; a prosperous business man | |
| 699872324 | War Industries Board | supervised the nation's industrial production | |
| 699872325 | National War Labor Board | helped resolve labor disputes that might slow down war production. | |
| 699872326 | Food Administration | This government agency was headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase the production of food and ration food for the military. | |
| 699872327 | 18th amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages | |
| 699872328 | war bonds | certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. | |
| 699872329 | Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI | |
| 699872330 | doughboys | A nickname for the inexperienced but fresh American soldiers during WWI | |
| 699872331 | Armistice Day | November 11, 1918; Germany signed an armistice (an agreement to stop fighting); this US holiday is now known as Veterans Day | |
| 699872332 | Big Four | Woodrow Wilson (US president), Georges Clemenceau (french premier), David Lloyd George (british prime minister), Vittorio Orlando (italian prime minister) | |
| 699872333 | War Guilt Clause | in treaty of Versailles; declared germany and austria responsible for WWI; ordered Germany to pay reparation to Allied powers | |
| 699872334 | Versailles Treaty | The compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes. Germany had to take full blame for the war in order for the treaty to pass, among other things. The US Senate rejected it. | |
| 699872335 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased. | |
| 699872336 | James M Cox | He was the democrat nominee chosen to run for the presidency against Harding in the 1920 election. His vice-presidential running mate was Franklin Roosevelt. | |
| 699872337 | isolationism | a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | |
| 699872338 | Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich in Germany during World War II. |
