AP US History Unit 11 Progressivism Flashcards

6157117840	progressivism	a fight against corruption, corporate influence, and poverty	0
6157117841	Ida Tarbell	wrote hit-pieces against Standard Oil in McClure	1
6157117842	Lincoln Steffens	wrote against political machines	2
6157119863	muckracker	a reform-minded journalist who attacks the establishment	3
6157119864	Ashcan School	the American school of artistry, which focused on city streets and slums	4
6157140345	Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)	an anticapitalist union, it failed at organizing workers and could only get spontaneous strikes	5
6162662326	isolationism	the belief that America should keep its foreign policy to itself	6
6162662327	Josiah Strong	argued that it was the Anglo-Saxon race's god-given duty to conquer the world	7
6162663993	Alfred Mahan	developed the hypothesis that a nation with a powerful navy and the overseas bases necessary to maintain it would be invulnerable in war and good in peace	8
6162663994	Henry Lodge	supported Mahan's ideas and pushed them through Congress	9
6162663995	McKinley Tariff Act	removed the duty on sugar outright	10
6162666092	Queen Liliuokalani	Hawaiian nationalist	11
6162666093	Panama Canal	American infrastructure that would help improve trade in Central America	12
6162668350	Clayton-Bulwer Treaty	treaty between the United States and Great Britain that prevented a power from holding exclusive control over a canal in the Americas	13
6162668351	Valeriano Weyler	governor of Cuba that was supposed to fight the nationalist movement	14
6162669669	reconcentration camps	policy of Governor Weyler to deprive rebels of food; a place where the Cuban rural population was herded into	15
6162671775	Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst	famous newspaper editors that advocated for intervention in Cuba	16
6177173714	Teller Amendment	stated that the United States had no intention of taking Cuban territory through its forces	17
6177173715	Spanish-American War	fought to free Cuba	18
6177173716	Emilio Aguinaldo	Filipino nationalist leader	19
6177175099	roughriders	regiments like these had difficulty getting supplies to invade Cuba due to poor management	20
6177175100	William Taft	was sent in 1900 to establish a government in the Philippines; first civilian governor of the Philippines; 27th U.S. President	21
6177177005	Platt Amendment	authorized American intervention in Cuba "whenever necessary," prevented Cuba from making a treaty with a foreign power that compromised its independence, and forced it to grant naval bases to the United States	22
6177177006	Roosevelt Corollary	55% of the Dominican Republic's customs income should go to paying back defaulted bonds	23
6177234456	Treaty of Paris	treaty where Spain gave independence to the Philippines	24
6187789531	John Hay	McKinley's secretary of state who developed the Open Door policy	25
6187789532	Open Door policy	the powers agree to respect the trading rights of all countries and to impose no discriminatory duties within their spheres of influence	26
6187789533	Boxer Rebellion	nationalists swarmed into Peking and drove foreigners behind the walls of their legations	27
6187792089	Russo-Japanese War	a conflict over Manchuria where the U.S. was able to practice its Open Door policy	28
6187792090	Gentleman's Agreement	San Francisco's Asian discrimination policy was repealed in favor of less immigration from Japan	29
6187795639	Hay-Pauncefote Treaty	repealed the Clayton-Bulwer Act and gave the United States the right to build a canal	30
6187797385	Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty	allowed the United States to build the Panama Canal under the same conditions offered to Colombia	31
6187799126	dollar diplomacy	outlying areas were influenced without actually being controlled; foreign investment	32
6196640196	Robin LaFollette	a Republican governor of Wisconsin who took on corporate interests, obtained a direct primary system for nominating candidates, and signed a corrupt practices act; also created a special library of information for lawmakers to research policy	33
6196642208	Women's suffrage	women's right to vote	34
6196642209	National American Woman Suffrage Association	a combination of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association	35
6208504522	Newlands Act	funneled the proceeds from land sales in the West into federal irrigation projects	36
6208504523	Northern Security Co. v. United States	U.S. victory over the Northern Securities Company, a monopoly over three railroads	37
6208506672	Square Deal	the demands of each side were met halfway in the United Mine Workers strike	38
6208506673	Hepburn Act	gave the ICC the right to set rates on railroads, inspect books, and to control sleeping car companies	39
6208506674	Upton Sinclair	published The Jungle, which reported on the filthy conditions inside Chicago slaughterhouses	40
6208509022	Pure Food and Drug Act	forbid the manufacture and sale of adulterated and fraudulently labeled products	41
6208509023	conservation	protection of natural resources	42
6212362369	Ballinger-Pinchot controversy	secretary of the interior Ballinger wanted to give coal-rich Alaska land to mining interests, this alerted conservationist Pinchot	43
6212370521	New Nationalism	a comprehensive program of social legislation	44
6212373684	Bull Moose (Progressive) Party	a third party created by Roosevelt against Taft in the election of 1912	45
6212376379	Woodrow Wilson	Democratic presidential candidate in 1912; U.S. President; moderate	46
6212381653	New Freedom	believed that the federal government could best advance the cause of social justice and that competition can take care of monopolies (Roosevelt wanted government control)	47
6230001688	Underwood Tariff	first significant reduction of duties since before the Civil War	48
6230001689	Federal Reserve Act	created a central banking system, all national banks in each district and any state banks that wished to participate had to invest 6% of their capital and surplus into the reserve bank, which could rediscount the money	49
6230002324	Federal Trade Comission	could investigate corporations and publish reports and could issue cease-and-desist orders	50
6230002325	Clayton Antitrust Act	banned price discrimination, typing agreements, and the creation of interlocking directories	51
6230003030	Niagara movement	demanded the unrestricted right to vote, an end to segregation, equality of economic opportunity, higher education for the talented, equal justice in the courts, and an end to trade-union discimination	52
6230003871	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	formed in 1909 to eradicate racial discrimination	53
6248354639	Allied Powers	Great Britain, France, and Russia	54
6248354640	Central Powers	Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey	55
6259668349	Lusitania	ship that the Germans sank that had Americans on board	56
6259674516	Sussex pledge	1916 German pledge to not sink merchant ships without warning	57
6259616814	"He Kept Us Out of War"	Wilson's 1916 campaign slogan	58
6259637979	"peace without victory"	in Wilson's speech to the citizens of the warring sides, he declared that all nations are equal and all nations have the right to their own self-government	59
6259620914	Zimmerman telegram	a German offer to Mexico for a secret alliance where Mexico would win back territory lost to the U.S. by declaring war on it	60
6259620915	War Industries Board	given dictatorial power to allocate scarce materials, standardize production, fix prices, and coordinate American and Allied purchasing. Antitrust laws were suspended	61
6259682322	McAdoo's Railroad Administration	pooled all railroad equipment, centralized purchasing, standardized accounting practices, and raised wages and passenger rates	62
6259682323	Espionage Act	imposed fines and jail sentences on people convicted of aiding the enemy or obstructing recruiting, and allowed the postmaster to ban mail	63
6259687535	Sedition Act	made it illegal to say anything that would discourage the purchase of war bonds; banned criticism of the government	64
6283675593	General John Pershing	commanded the American Expeditionary Force ("doughboys")	65
6283675594	Fourteen Points	saying that a peace treaty should make the world a safe place to live in. It should be negotiated in full view of the world, not privately. It supported nationalism (the good kind) and democracy	66
6309610605	Treaty of Versailles	the peace treaty for World War I. It failed at self-determination and senselessly beat up Germany	67
6309610606	League of Nations	a worldwide assembly of nations	68
6309612972	red scare	American fear that unions have communist leanings and that a Bolshevik revolution will happen in the United States	69