Chapter 20 MASS

Progressive presidents

What do these people have in common?:

Theodore Roosvelt

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Imperialism

a policy or practice where a nation extends its power and influence over foreign territories

1863

New Zealand Settelments act (Year)

1898

Anti Imperialist League (Year)

Anti Imperialist League

Strove for the Annexation of the Phillipenes and Cuba after the Spanish-American War.

Keathing-Owens Act

America’s first federal law to ban Child Labor

1916

Keathing-Owens Act (Year)

1906

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act (Year)

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

the first U.S. federal laws protecting consumers by banning misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce, requiring accurate ingredient labeling, and banning false claims, leading to the creation of the FDA.

1899

Fillipino-American War (Year)

Fillipino-American War

War to decide the Annexation of the Phillipines from Spanish rule.

1920

19th Amendment (Year)

19th Amendment

Amendment Prohibiting states and the federal government from denying suffrage based on gender.

Jane Adams

Founder of Hull House

1892

Omaha Platform (Year)

Omaha Platform

born from farmers' struggles against economic inequality, demanding government control of railroads, a graduated income tax, direct election of senators, and currency reform (free silver)

Progressive Party

Booker T Washington

an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.

W.E.B Dubois

Wrote The Souls of Black Folk

an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Tragic fire where garment workers were burned or suffocated to death by fires. Raised awareness for building plans and fire escapes.

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Year)

Robert LaFolette

Launched the National Progressive Republican League, an organization devoted to passing progressive laws such as primary elections, the direct election of U.S. senators, and referendums.

Mary E. Lease

an American lecturer, writer, Georgist, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance, but she was best known for her work with the People's Party.

1920-1933

Temperance Movement (Years) Year-Year

1913

Federal Reserve Founded (Year)

1908

Root-Takahira Treaty (Year)

Root-Takahira Treaty

Japan promised to respect U.S. territorial possessions in the Pacific, its Open Door policy in China, and the limitation of immigration to the United States

16th Amendment

Amendment that Introduced Income tax

1913

16th Amendment (Year)

20th Amendment

moving the President's inauguration to January 20 and Congress's start to January 3, ending the long "lame duck" period between election and taking office

Populist Party

party that needed reform with banks, railroad rates, involvement in government, agrarian

Mukrakers

 Ida Tarbell (Standard oil), Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jacob Riis (How the other Half Lives)

Roosvelt Corolary

“Walk Softly and Cary a Big Stick“

Dollar Diplomacy

Made by W.H Taft, using American financial power—loans and investments—to build stability, further U.S. commercial interests, and increase influence in Latin America and Asia

Square Deal

Made by Roosvelt Theodore Roosevelt's progressive domestic policy, promising fairness and equal opportunity for all Americans through its "Three C's"

New Nationalism

By Roosvelt, Government as steward of public welfare, ensuring a "Square Deal" for all citizens, not just the wealthy.

Sandinista Revolution (Niagara Movement)

an armed conflict that took place in the Central American country of Nicaragua from 1978 to 1990 over Spanish Occupation.

New Freedom

by Woodrow Wilson, Broke up monopolies and focused on addiction revovery.

1916

Child Labor Act (year)

Schneck V United States

Court Case debating Freedom of speech “A clear and Present Danger“

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

Critic Pinchot was firred by Ballinger, sparking contreversity on cencorship.

1886

Wabash Case (Year)

Wabash Case

Case that lead to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commision.

1903

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Year)