Chapter 17 US History
Chapter 18 US History
Chapter 19 US History
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| 180036252 | progressive movement | social reform movement of the 20th century | |
| 180036253 | Florence Kelley | social reformer who helped pass the Illinois Factory Act that prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours | |
| 180036254 | prohibition | the banning of the sale and use of alcohol | |
| 180036255 | muckraker | journalists who wrote stories about corruption and unfair practices in business. | |
| 180036256 | scientific management | the use of scientific ideas, like the assembly line, to make work more efficient | |
| 180036257 | Robert M. La Follette | governor of Wisconsin who regulated big businesses like the railroad industry | |
| 180036258 | Muller v. Oregon | Supreme Court decided that a state could legally limit the working hours of women | |
| 180036259 | initiative | gives voters the right to propose a law directly | |
| 180036260 | referendum | a direct vote on the initiative where voters could accept or reject the initiative | |
| 180036261 | recall | the voter's right to force a government official to face another election or a vote to remove a public official from office | |
| 180036262 | Seventeenth Amendment | called for the direct election of senators by the people | |
| 180036263 | National Association of Colored Women (NACW) | created nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens | |
| 180036264 | National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote | |
| 180036265 | suffrage | the right to vote | |
| 180036266 | Susan B. Anthony | leader of the woman suffrage movement | |
| 180036267 | Upton Sinclair | author who described the filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry in his novel The Jungle | |
| 180036268 | Theodore Roosevelt | President from 1901 to 1909 known as the trustbuster | |
| 180036269 | Square Deal | Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms | |
| 180036270 | Meat Inspection Act | Pushed by Roosevelt, it called for strict cleanliness requirements in meatpacking | |
| 180036271 | Pure Food and Drug Act | (1906) Passed by Congress, it stopped the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and required truth in labeling | |
| 180036272 | conservation | belief that some land should be preserved as wilderness while other areas would be developed | |
| 180036273 | National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | founded to push for civil rights and racial equality | |
| 180036274 | Gilford Pinchot | Head of the U.S. Forest Service appointed by Roosevelt | |
| 180036275 | William Howard Taft | Roosevelt's secretary of war who became president in1909 | |
| 180036276 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff | Passed by the Senate, it did not lower tariffs much at all | |
| 180036277 | Bull Moose Party | Progressive Party formed by Roosevelt's supporters | |
| 180036278 | Woodrow Wilson | Nominated by the Democrats, he became president in 1912 | |
| 180036279 | Carrie Chapman Catt | President of NAWSA who led the campaign for woman suffrage | |
| 180036280 | Clayton Antitrust Act | Passed by Congress in 1914, it made it more difficult for monopolies to form | |
| 180036281 | Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | (1914) Agency that had the power to investigate businesses for the government | |
| 180036282 | Federal Reserve System (FRS) | Controlled the money supply and made credit more easily available. | |
| 180036283 | Nineteenth Amendment | Amendment that gave women the right to vote | |
| 180036284 | Queen Liluokalani | Queen of Hawaii who was forced to give up her throne because of American business interests | |
| 180036285 | United States Imperalism | belief that the U.S. should take economic, political and military control power over weaker countries | |
| 180036286 | Alfred T. Mahan | U.S. admiral who supported the growth of the U.S. Navy and colonies overseas | |
| 180036287 | William Seward | Secretary of State who purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million | |
| 180036288 | Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval bases built in Hawaii | |
| 180036289 | Jose Marti | Cuban poet and journalist who led a rebellion for independence from Spain | |
| 180036290 | Valeriano Weyler | general sent from Spain to Cuba to restore order | |
| 180036291 | yellow journalism | exaggeration of the news to make it more exciting | |
| 180036292 | de Lome letter | letter written by a Spanish diplomat criticizing President McKinley as being weak | |
| 180036293 | U.S.S. Maine | American warship in Cuba that was believed to have been exploded by Spain | |
| 180036294 | George Dewey | American naval commander who led the attack on the Phillipines | |
| 180036295 | Rough Riders | fighting unit led by Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba | |
| 180036296 | San Juan Hill | location where the Spanish surrendered to the U.S. in Cuba | |
| 180036297 | Treaty of Paris (1898) | treaty that ended the Spanish American War | |
| 180036298 | Foraker Act | law that ended military rule and set up a civil government in Puerto Rico | |
| 180036299 | Platt Amendment | amendment in the Cuban constitution that gave the U.S. special privileges | |
| 180036300 | Protectorate | a country that is partly controlled by a stronger country | |
| 180036301 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino rebel who led a revolt against the U.S. | |
| 180036302 | John Hay | US Secretary of state who sent the Open Door notes | |
| 180036303 | Open Door notes | message sent by John Hay calling for China's ports to remain open and for China to remain independent in order to protect US trading rights | |
| 180036304 | Boxer Rebellion | Chinese rebellion against Western influence | |
| 180036305 | Panama Canal | channel across Central America connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans | |
| 180036306 | Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's extension to the Monroe Doctrine that stated that the US has the right to protect its economic interests in Latin America | |
| 180036307 | dollar diplomacy | policy of intervening in other countries to protect U.S. business interests | |
| 180036308 | Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Mexican revolutionary that led a rebellion against Carranza, new leader of Mexico, and his followers also killed American troops | |
| 180036309 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican rebel, led a peasant revolt, understood the misery of peasant villagers | |
| 180036310 | John J. Pershing | general sent by President Wilson to capture Pancho Villa | |
| 180036311 | Anti-Imperialist League | group of antiimperialists that advocated for isolationism, thought it was wrong for the U.S. to rule other people without their consent | |
| 180036312 | The Spanish American War | caused the United States to be recognized as a world power | |
| 180036313 | nationalism | belief that the interests and culture of one's own country were more important than another countries | |
| 180036314 | militarism | building up armies, navies and other armed forces | |
| 180036315 | Allies | One group in WWI with France, England, Russia, and later the U.S. ("Big Four"). | |
| 180036316 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated by a Serb. His assassination triggered WWI | |
| 180036317 | no man's land | the space between two armies fighting each other | |
| 180036318 | trench warfare | fighting between fortified ditches | |
| 180036319 | Lusitania | British ship attacked by a German U-boat Killing more than 1000 people | |
| 180036320 | Zimmerman note | telegram intercepted by British agents that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S. | |
| 180036321 | Selective Service Act | law passed by Congress requiring men to register for military service | |
| 180036322 | Armistice | truce agreement | |
| 180036323 | War Industrial Board (WIB) | created by President Wilson to improve efficiency in production | |
| 180036324 | Bernard M. Baruch | leader of WIB | |
| 180036325 | propaganda | biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions | |
| 180036326 | Espionage and Sedition Acts | laws passed by Congress to harshly punish people who did not support the war | |
| 180036327 | Great Migration | the movement of many African Americans to the North from the South to escape discrimination and to find jobs in industries | |
| 180036328 | Fourteen Points | President Wilson's plan for world peace following WWI | |
| 180036329 | League of Nations | an international peace-keeping organization proposed by President Wilson to address problems between countries | |
| 180036330 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty after the end of WW I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans-June 28, 1919 | |
| 180036331 | reparations | payments made by the defeated countries after the war to pay for war damages | |
| 180036332 | Henry Cabot Lodge | conservative senator who opposed the League of Nations. He did not want the U.S. to get involved in conflicts with other countries | |
| 180036333 | Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire | |
| 180036334 | convoy system | merchant ships traveled in a large group protected by warships | |
| 180036335 | Eddie Rickenbacker | "ace" pilot who downed 26 enemy fighters in WWI | |
| 180036336 | Food Administration | Created by Wilson during WWI - Led by Herbert Hoover - set up ration system to save food for soldiers | |
| 180036337 | war-guilt clause | clause in Treaty of Versailles forcing Germany to take responsibility for causing the war |
