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Progrevissim
a general political philosophy advocating or favoring gradual social, political, and economic reform.[1] Modern Progressivism emerged as part of a more general response to the vast social changes brought by industrialization. -
Yellow Journalism
Valeriano Weyler was tagged Butcher Weyler, by yellow journalists like William Randolph Hearst, for the hundreds of thousands of people that died in his concentration camps. Yellow journalism created false stories of what was happening over in Cuba. -
Jose Marti
A Freedom Fighter, that he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence. Destroy American property and windmill to provoke U.S. Intervention to help rebels achieve Cuba Libre. -
Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the treaty that ended the Spanish/American war. It was also the start of the American empire because of these three reasons:1. Cuba was freed, yet it was known as a protectorate to the US. This gave America control over Cuba in a twisted way.2. Guam & Puerto Rico were given to the US. 3. The Philippines was sold to the US for $20 million dollars. -
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment established that the U.S would end its military occupation and Cuba and leave it to their people. The Platt Amendment had 8 conditions that had to be met by the Cuban government before the U.S military withdrawed. -
The Muckrakers
The muckraker most associated with a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics from the late 1800s to early 1900s, who investigated and exposed societal issues such as conditions in slums and prisons, factories, insane asylums (as they were called at the time), sweatshops, mines, child labor and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was released alongside the Meat Inspection Act by Teddy Roosevelt, and required labeling of products with drugs such as heroine and cocaine. -
Panama Canal
ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade -
The United States Enters World War One
on April 6, 1917, congress officially declared it. President Wilson, along with many Americans, justified their involvement as "an act of high principle and idealism...[and]...as a crusade to make the world safe for democracy. -
Zimmermann note
a diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in April. -
Fourteen Points
as a statement of principles contained in a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The points encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. -
Prohibition
is a legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverasges -
Eighteenth Amendment
prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. The separate Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition -
Treaty of Versailles
theTreaty of Versailles wasthe treaty at the end of world war one the german's had to pay ($31.4 billion or £6.6 billion, roughly equivalent to US $442 billion or UK £284 billion in 2012) -
League of nations formed
the league of nations was formed to prevent war one year after world war one. it was a group of countries that worked together to uphold this promise. but it failed to uphold its promise when world war two began -
Nineteenth Amendment
prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women
Allowed Women to Vote for rights
A Constitutional Amendment that granted women full voting rights. Previously only men were allowed to vote. This begun a widespread reforms within womens rights in the United States.
