Social studies midterm

**They wanted to improve society, business, and government** 

What was the Purpose of the progressive movement

**Women's rights-( voting suffrage) and to Improve efficiency in business and government (regulate business)**

What were the Goals of the progressive movement

trusts

**when people set their own rules, they are forming a _________**

**roosevelt**

who was the Trust buster

arbitration

**what was middle man who would make decisions**

square deal

**what promised fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups**

Meat inspection act and pure food and drug act

what gave the government the right to inspect businesses and products

Progressive party

**when roosevelt was unhappy about how taft was running the country so he decided to run against William Howard Taft**

16th amendment

**The more money you made, the more tax you got**

Graduated income tax

**what added 2% on corporations**

Woodrow wilson

**who was the leader of the Progressive Movement**

New Freedom Programs

* **Passed a lower tariff**
* **Forced american companies to lower prices and make better products**

Federal Reserve act

* **Regulated banking**
* **Created 12 regional banks**

Federal trade commission

* **To ensure corporations Traded fairly**

* **There was a war beginning in europe**

* Why was there a shift in interest from the Progressive Reform to world affairs? 

Isolationism

* **little to do with the political affairs of other nations**

Imperialism

* **bigger countries taking over smaller ones**

goals for imperialism

**taking over for land, money, power, and resources**

* Acquisition of Alaska- 

* **WIlliam Seward arranged to buy alaska from russia for 7.2 million.** 
* **¨Seward's Folly¨ because people thought there was no value to the land**

* Annexation of Hawaii 

* **Sugar**
* **Navy**
* race

* Spain and Cuba

* **when Spain wanted control of cuba and wanted cuba put into concentration camps, died of diseases, and starvation**

* Yellow Journalism

* **Over exaggerated bias news**

**sugar**

* what was US interest in Cuba

* USS Maine

* **A ship that sunk and they thought spain blew it up because yellow journalism made it seem like spain did**

Newsies

* **who were Orphans, homeless, street kids that sold paper**

Rough riders

* **who were Volunteer cavalry who fought in span- american war**

* Treaty of Paris 

* **Spanish gave up its claims up to cuba**
* **Guam and puerto rico were ceded to the US**
* **Philippines were given to the US also for $20 million dollars**
* **Ended spanish- american war**

* Annexation Of Philippines 

* **The Filipinos became US territory. They hated it and Emilio Aguinaldo started a war to fight for the filipinos independence**

**trade**

* Us Interest in China (benefit for US to gain access to China)

* Spheres of influence 

* **Areas of china where european countries controlled the trade and market**

* **To protect the interest of the US and other Latin- American countries** 

what was Roosevelt Collarys benefit to US

Boxer rebellion

* **Chinese ¨boxers¨ rebelled against the imperialist forces and christian missionaries in china**

* McKinley’s Assassination 

* **was partaken by Anarchist because they felt the government was corrupt**

Panama canal

* **Passage from Atlantic to Pacific for military and trade. It would also cut travel time**

**trade**

panama canal benefit to us