CH 17-18 HISTORY

The jungle

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

Conservationism

A social and political movement to protect natural resources, often plants and animals.

Jim Crow

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Social Welfare Programs

government programs that provide the minimum living standards necessary for all citizens

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

municipal government

the government units that administer a city or town

Anti-Suffrage

Men and women who did not want women to have the right to vote; believed it would take away from their families and make women too masculine.

Muckrakers

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

Civil Disobedience

A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

What issues did the Progressive Movement seek to address?

rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption; and by the enormous concentration of industrial ownership in monopolies. They were alarmed by the spread of slums, poverty, and what they perceived as the exploitation of labor.

Why did some people oppose suffrage?

They beleived women should be looking after the homes, cooking, cleaning, and raising the children.

How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ in their tactics for black civil rights?

Washington advocated a hands-on external approach, DuBois promoted a paternalistic form of advancement of the Black race.

What role did the government play in the progressive era?

They gave citizens greater voice through the direct primary, the initiative, the referendum and recall. Progressive government officials worked for reforms in eduction, factories,voting and the environment.

What was the Spanish-American War?

The Spanish-American War was really Cuba's war for independence from Spain, fought in the late 1890s between Cuba and Spain. America joined in 1898.

What was the result of the Spanish-American War?

Puerto Rico and Guam were made unincorporated US territories

What was the annexation of Hawaii?

extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaii might become part of a European nation's empire.

Monroe Doctrine

an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers

What was imperialism?

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

What is an empire?

an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority

Panama Canal

Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

Foreign Intervention

interference by one state into the affairs of another, usually by the means of force.

What arguments were made for U.S. imperialism?

- Economic competition among industrial nations.
- Political and military competition, including the creation of a strong naval force.
- A belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon descent.

What arguments were made against U.S. imperialism?

imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed."

What does it mean to be a global power?

A country that is powerful enough to affect the entire world by its influence or actions.

What were some of the positives to building the Panama Canal?

People did not have to travel around South America

What were some of the negatives to building the Panama Canal?

20,000 people died building it.