Studied by 5 peopleThey 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
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