test Oct 31 history

What now US State was taken over by American Companies and joined the United States as a territory in 1898

Hawaii

What person was the leader of the 1st volunteer Calvary in the Spanish American War and helped take control of Santiago de Cuba?

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

Who photographed the slums of New York and created the book How the Other Half Lives?

Jacob Riis

What movement encouraged people to start settlement houses, YMCA, and The Salvation Army

Social Gospel Movement

What city first started using streetcars in 1873?

San Francisco

What is the name of the system of giving people jobs in government after they supported the victories candidate?

Spoils system

The Us buying Alaska from Russia in 1867 was called what?

Seward's Folly

What was the ship that sunk in the port of Havanna?

The USS Maine

What did America get in return for helping Panama get independence?

the Panama Canal

What country did the US force to give Panama Independence?

Columbia

Who became a chief inspector of Factories in Illioins and helped get the Illinois Factory Act passed?

Florence Kelley

What type of journalism involved exposing corrupt business practices and harsh working conditions?

Muckrakering (journalists are called muckrackers)

Who adopted the gold standard?

William McKinley

Who are the four progressive presidents?

McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

What was Wilson's reforms called?

New Freedom

What movie was supported by Wilson that is credited with helping restart the KKK?

The Birth of the Nation

Who assassinated William McKinley?

Leon Czolgosz

Who was the youngest man to serve as president?

Teddy Roosevelt

What is the name of the 2 main acts that helped protect consumers under Teddy Roosevelt?

Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

What was created to investigate illegal corporate practices under Wilson?

FTC (Federal Trade Commission)

What is Urbanization

The (rapid) growth of cities

How many Native American Languages are still spoken today?

800+

What was the low quality housing for mass amount of poeple called?

Tenements

What is it called to have a method of moving large amount of people around areas on fixed routes?

Mass transit

What were some (at least 2) of the problems the cities faced with mass urbanization?

Lack of clean drinking water, increased crime, increase threat of fire, unsanitary conditions

What city first started using subways in 1897?

Boston

Chlorination was introduce in 1908 to improve what type of system?

Water Filtration

What is a group that controls a political party in a city called?

A Political Machine

What philosophy emerged around this time that viewed the poor as less than and not as worthy of life?

Social Darwinism

Who ran the Tammany Hall Political Machine?

William Tweed (Boss Tweed)

Who was the political cartoonist who helped expose The Tammany Hall Scandal and was influenced by St. Nicholas when making Santa Claus?

Thomas Nast

What European nation does the U.S. Defeat to take the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba?

Spain

What type of Journalism focused on sensationalism and embellished language to cause specific reactions during this time period?

Yellow Journalism

What was the name of the type of Diplomacy that Woodrow Wilson enacted as president that did not allow him to work with oppressive governments?

Missionary Diplomacy

What is the type of Diplomacy that involved companies giving loans to local governments to get involved when the debt could not be paid back?

Dollar Diplomacy

What is the ban of the sale of Alcohol called?

Prohibition

Give the definition of each term:
1. Initiative
2. Referendum
3. Recall

•Initiatives: Bills proposed by the public
•Referendum: Public vote on initiatives
•Recall: Vote to remove a public official from office

What is the 17th Amendment?

Senators are publicly elected

Who was president for the Spanish merican War

William McKinley

What president had the square Deal?

Teddy Roosevelt

What was the 16th Amendment?

The introduction of a graduated income tax

Extra: (No negative but only first team gets points) What president is the only former president to become a supreme court justice?

William Howard Taft

Why was Taft inconsistent on Progressive policies

He decreased taxes but he removed reserved lands and put them into public use.

What was the name of the third party that Teddy Roosevelt started?

Progressive party (or Bull Moose Party)

What were the components of the square deal. (must give ALL 3)

•Conservation of natural resources
•Control of corporations
•Consumer protection