1900s-1920s Term and People

Muckraking

Muckraking

the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.

Sherman Antitrust Act

First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.

Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

Conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection

Alice Paul

- Leader of the National Women's Party

-Fought for women’s suffrage

Jacob Riis

A photojournalist who published, "How the Other Half Lives", a series of photos about the lives in the slums of New York.

Jane Adams

founded the Hull House in Chicago which were dedicated to helping the poor

progressivism

support for or advocacy of social reform.

W.E.B. DuBois

-founder of NAACP,

organized a series of pan-african congresses that attracted black leaders from around the world

-editor of "The Crisis"

- Author of The Souls Of Black Folk

suffrage

the right to vote

Ida Tarbell

newspaper reporter who exposed the corruption of standard oil

Big Stick Policy

It's Roosevelt's idea of threatening military force while negotiating peacefully.

Dollar Diplomacy

the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.

Imperialism

seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country

Spanish-American War

Cuba's war for independence from Spain, fought in the late 1890s between Cuba and Spain.

America joined in 1898.

Social Darwinism

the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are better

Rough Riders

A volunteer Calvary under the command of Leonard wood and Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt

the Progressive president who became known as a "trustbuster" for taking on the big corporations.

26th president

William Howard Taft

-Ran for president against William McKinley in the election of 1908

-Roosevelt's secretary of war.

Emilio Aquinaldo

A Filipino Rebel, who helped Americans seize Manila Bay

Queen Liliuokalani

Queen of Hawaii

reasons of World War 1

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Woodrow Wilson

President of the US during WWI

George Creel

Head of the Committee on Public Information

J. Edgar Hoover

First director of the FBI

John Jack Pershing

commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

Selective Service Act

It required all men ages 21 - 30 to register for the military draft

Treaty of Versailles

-Agreement to stop fighting WW1

-Blame Germany

Wilson's 14 points

principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I

Palmer Raids

-Attempts by the U.S. Department of Justice to arrest and deport immigrants

-Led by attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer

reasons for US to join world war

Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships

(Lusitania)

Harlem Renaissance

Rebirth of African American culture

Teapot Dome Scandal

involved transferring oil reserves from the Navy Department to the Interior Department but then forgot about the Navy's needs

Warren Harding

-29th Republican President

-He put his friends in his cabient “ohio gang”

Al Capone

He was a 1925 gangster and illegal liquor distributor during prohibition.

KKK

White terrorist group that enforced unfair laws and codes

Flappers

-rebellious women

-fashionable young woman and to change the standard

Henry Ford

Invented the assembly line one idea

To build an automobile so cheap anyone could use it

Nativism

prejudice against foreign-born people

Red Scare

Fear of the spread of communism

Scopes Monkey Trial

debate over teaching evolution in schools