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AP US History - Progressiva Era Terms
Chapters 27-28 - American Pageant 14th ed.
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11th Grade
02/07/2011

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"strengthen the state"
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a move away from laissez-faire ideas of government and economics; wanted stronger federal government for Jeffersonian goals
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"knowledge is power"
Definition
faith in using statistics, facts, commissions, and information to inform and arouse a virtuous public and demand reform
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Non-Progressives - FAR LEFT
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socialists, commies, anarchists
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Progressive Reformers - LIBERALS
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advocates for more democracy
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Progressives - CONSERVATIVES
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advocates for more order- more efficiency
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Non-Progressives - FAR RIGHT
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"Old Guard"
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Muckrakers
Definition
journalists that believed if people knew the problems they would act on them!
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Henry D. Lloyd
Definition
Wealth Against Commonwealth
muckraker
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D. Philips
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Treason of the Senate
muckraker
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Ida Tarbell
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History of Standard Oil Co
muckraker
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Louis Brandeis
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Other People's Money
muckraker
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Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle
muckraker
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Lincoln Steffens
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Shame of the Cities
muckraker
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Jay Spargo
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Bitter Cry of the Children
muckraker
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Jacob Riis
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How The Other Half Lives
for immigration restriction
photographer
we should be afraid of immigrants, they aren't like us and they aren't contributing to society
efficiency > freedom
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Lewis Hine
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photojournalist reformer
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"trust buster"
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a man who wanted more democracy by breaking up big business.
TR is usually associated with this title
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Teddy Bear Industry
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TR saved the bear cub, this industry boomed because the public loved TR
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Anthracite Coal Strike
Definition
gave people feeling that they had a forceful president that was on their side. In actuality, big business won this strike because after the president left they didn't have to reinforce their rules because of no unions.
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Northern Securities Case
Definition
against monopolies, trust busting
strengths the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Hepburn and Elkins Acts
Definition
strengths Interstate Commerce Act - trust regulation NOT TRUST BUSTING
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Newlands Act
Definition
TR's conservation program
efficiency > democracy
"Mom and Pop's" went out of business
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The Meat Inspection Act
Definition
trust regulation, drove out small businesses
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socialism
Definition
praises capitalism for solving the problem of production, but criticizes it because we didn't solve the problem of distribution. Believes capitalism is only a necessary phase in history and it has lived longer than it should.
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The Red Scares
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1920s and 1950s, associate socialism with dictatorship (ie. Soviet Union)
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imperialism
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direct take over of other countries
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indirect imperialism
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The Platt Amendment
Cuba- leaving them with a constitution and their government with special perks for us
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direct imperialism
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US-Filipino War
after liberating the, we "took" the area and made it a territory which caused a series of guerrilla wars in which we slaughtered Filipinos
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benevolent assimilation
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term invented by McKinley's administration platform that described white man's burden applied to the Philippines - justifiable propaganda phrase
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altruism
Definition
fighting for others, not for yourself, with moral intentions
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indirect empire -- imperial republic
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an oxymoron, the US foreign policy in 1890s-1917
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John Hays Open Door Policy
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attitude towards China, pressured them to give us access to markets, didn't really give them much of a choice
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"speak softly and carry a big stick"
Definition
talk polite but remind people we have power
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Panama Canal/Hay Bunear-vailla Treaty
Definition
did not force Panama to give us Canal, but we basically asked for it in return for their great independence
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TR's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Definition
adds that US has right to intervene- makes US policeman
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Treaty of Portsmouth
Definition
ended Russo-Japanese War, made US recognized as a world power, we were asked to moderate the treaty
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yellow journalism
Definition
like tabolids, nesationalized news especially foreign affairs
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jingoism
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idea that we should go abroad and spread the flag; nationalism
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Remington
Definition
artists who made pictures inaccurately for these tabloids
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Influence of Sea Power in History - the need to obtain overseas markets to alleviate economic overproduction
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economic overproduction
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we're being TOO successful
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Social Darwinism
Definition
survival of the fittest
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White Man's Burden
Definition
we have to go take care of them
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