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Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
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Nickname for Spanish American war coined by Hay, indicative of US attitude and cockiness.
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Yellow journalism, imperialism, Spain brutality to the Cubans, explosion of the USS Maine.
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Causes of the Spanish-American War
Yellow journalism, imperialism, Spain brutality to the Cubans, explosion of the USS Maine.
"Remember the Maine"
After the U.S. battle cruiser Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the New York Journal rallied its readers to "Remember the Maine," galvanizing popular support for the U.S. war against Spain. Evidence of Spanish complicity in the explosion was not found; the likely cause was later found to have been internal to the ship -
Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War
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A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism."
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Volunteer regiment of US Cavalry led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War
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July 1, 1898-One of the most important battles of the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt, the Rough Riders and Pershing's Buffalo Soldiers defeated Spanish on Kettle and San Juan Hill.
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a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
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This Battle took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo that marked an end to wooden ships to the more powerful American Steel Navy.
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(1898) treaty that ended the Spanish American war. Provided that Cuba be free from Spain.
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the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
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A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
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Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell's Kitchen
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Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary
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Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. While in prison, he read Socialist literature and emerged as a Socialist leader in America.
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Wrote the jungle, studied the working conditions and gross plants for 7 weeks.
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President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
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(1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet, actively pursued anti-trust law suits, appoints Richard Ballinger as Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger opposed conservation and favored business interests, Taft fires Gifford Pinchot (head of U.S. forestry), ran for re-election in 1912 but lost to Wilson
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26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War
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to change for the better
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settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889
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procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
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A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.
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settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider
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First used in Australia in the 1880s. All candidates names were to be printed on the same white piece of paper at the government's expense and polling was to be done in private. It was opposed by the party machines, who wanted to be able to pressure people into voting for their candidates, but it was implemented and is still in use.
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A primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office
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Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
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process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot
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This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods.
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law that regulated the food and patent medicine industries; some business leaders called it socialistic meddling by the government.
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1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
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First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions
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a social reform movement based on improving society through the power of the government
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an agency that sets the laws for all the companies that do business across state lines
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Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers
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1902 T. Roosevelt set the precedent by settling this strike using arbitration
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nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912
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1914 act designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; certain activities previously committed by big businesses, such as not allowing unions in factories and not allowing strikes, were declared illegal.
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Democrat Woodrow Wilson's political slogan in the presidential campaign of 1912; Wilson wanted to improve the banking system, lower tariffs, and, by breaking up monopolies, give small businesses freedom to compete.
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An agency that regulates a variety of business practices and curbs false advertising, misleading pricing, and deceptive packaging and labeling
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Signed by Taft in March of 1909 in contrast to campaign promises. Was supposed to lower tariff rates but Senator Nelson N. Aldrich of Rhode Island put revisions that raised tariffs. This split the Repulican party into progressives (lower tariff) and conservatives (high tariff).
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income tax
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Direct election of senators.
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prohibition
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right to vote
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Name of Wilson's party in Election of 1912
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law that created the modern banking system
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1914, lowered tariff, substantially reduced import fees. Lost tax revenue would be replaced with an income tax that was implemented with the 16th amendment.
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A party made up of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of senators and an 8hr working day
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Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party.
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head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
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capital of cuba
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capital of Philippines
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Womens right to vote