Vocab Unit 7 Flashcards
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It was purchased by Secretary of State William Seward from Russia for $7.2 million. However, most American citizens were against this.
Seward’s Folly (Alaska)
A Progressive reform measure allowing voters to petition to have a law placed on the general ballot. It brought democracy directly “to the people,” and helped foster a shift toward interest-group politics and away from old political machines.
Initiative
A proviso to President McKinley’s war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the U.S. had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom.
Teller Amendment
Exerting financial power as a form of imperialism. This occurred in the United States during William Howard Taft’s presidency between 1909 and 1913.
Dollar Diplomacy
It allows Congress to levy a tax on income from any source.
16th Amendment
The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so Roosevelt broke away to form his own party, also known as the Progressive Party.
Bull Moose Party
It outlawed the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.”
18th Amendment
A system that allows voters privacy in marking their ballot choices.
Australian Ballot
It created a central banking system in an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency.
Federal Reserve Act
A label given to a brand of newspaper reporting in the mid to late 1890s that embraced dramatic headlines and exaggerated storylines about crime, corruption, sex, and scandal in order to increase circulation numbers.
Yellow Journalism
Areas in which countries have some political and economic control but do not directly govern in China.
Spheres of Influence
Socialist muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.
Upton Sinclair
Government activity designed to kill trusts or monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts.
Trust-Busting
It refers to Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic policies that focused on the “Three C’s”: Control of corporations, Consumer protection. Conservation of natural resources.
Square Deal
An attempt to gain independence from Spain that was led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Lasted until 1902 and led to the deaths of 200,000- 1 million.
Philippine Insurrection
A meeting of black intellectuals in 1905 led by Du Bois. They created a list of demands (ex. unrestricted right to vote, end to segregation, equality of economic opportunities, exc.)
Niagara Movement
It was created and promoted in the early 20th century by Frederick Taylor. It emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance.
Scientific Management System
An island in New York Harbor that served as the main point of entry for immigrants to the United States from 1892 to 1954.
Ellis Island
Bright young reporters at the turn of the 20th century who boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing exposes of widespread corruption in American society and helped spur the passage of reform legislation.
Muckrakers
A Law passed by Congress to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them.
Elkins Act
This sought to ensure access to the Chinese market for the U.S., despite the fact that the U.S. didn’t have a formal sphere of influence there.
Open Door Policy
Stronger than the Sherman Antitrust Act, this defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
Clayton Antitrust Act
An uprising in China directed against foreign influence, suppressed by an international force that paved the way for the revolution of 1911, which led to the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912.
Boxer Rebellion
An era of intense social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society from the 1890s to the 1920s.
Progressive Movement
