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