Time period 7 assessment # 1

Yellow Jornalism

journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

Spainish American War causes

Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain

Teller Amendment

Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war

Emilio Aguinaldo and the Philippines

Filipino leader of a resistance movement against the imperial control of the Philippines by the United States.

Great white fleet

battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a "good will cruise" around the world

Panama Canal

A faster way to get to the pacific

Internationalism

A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity

collective security

A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all

Isolationism

A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Open Door Policy (John Hay)

A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.

Jingoism

intense nationalism that calls for an agressive foreign policy.

The Jones Act of 1916

created a Bill of Rights and gave universal suffrage to males living in the Philippines

Anti imperialists

disliked the Treaty of Paris due to provisions about the annexation of the Philippines

The Roosevelt Corollary

Addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs when needed

Treaty of Paris

(1898) treaty that ended the Spanish American war. transfered Puerto Rico and the Philippines from Spain to the US.

Platt Amendment

was added to the Cuban Constitution in 1901

Dollar diplomacy

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

Progressive democratic reforms

Designed to limit the power of policial machines

W.E.B. DuBois

fought for immediate equality for blacks

Recall

When voters can remove a politican from office by majority vote before the end of their term

Ida Tarbell

A muckraking journalist published a highly critical study on the Standard Oil Company

16th Amendment

created a graduated federal income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

Referendum

A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.

Lincoln Steffens

muckraking journalist, Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities.

Jacob Riis

Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell's Kitchen

Upton Sinclair

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.