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Progessive voc. 10-10-11
Progressives, imperialists and WWI
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11th Grade
10/10/2011

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Term
Progrssives
Definition
Anyone that works to improve the lives of people. ie. raise minmum wage, apply sanitation standards, elimanate child labour.
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Florence Kelley
Definition

She was a social and political reformer mostly for children and women.

She served as a dirrector of the National Consumer's League. which used cosumer activity to reform the industrial system.

She wrote "Ethical Gains Through Legislation" and "Modern Industry" 

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Prohibition
Definition
Legislature that prohibits the production, distribution, selling of alcoholic beverages. 
Term
Muckracker
Definition

Coined by Roosovelt.

It is something along the lines of an investigative reporter that reveals corruption and injustice.

Term
Robert Lafollette
Definition
Ran for president as part of the progressive party in the year 1924. His platform was largly fucused on weakening the power of corpurations and increasing the wages and working conditions.
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Inivative
Definition
The first step or action.
Term
Referendum
Definition
The referring of legislature that has been proposed or passed by the legislative group to the vote of the electorate. The electorate can then either accept the legislature or reject it.
Term
Recall
Definition

To bring back to matters.

ie. 

Do you recall what Bethany Michelle Wagner said?

or to  revoke.

 

ie.  a tomato recall in California.

 

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17th Amendment
Definition
A dirrect election for U.S. state senators by popular vote.
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18th Amendment
Definition
Sarted a nationwide prohibition on 1-17-1920.
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19th Amendment
Definition
It allowed women and transgendered people to vote.
Term
Maria Mitchell
Definition

In 1847 she discovered a comet to which she named "Ms. Mitchell's Comet". She received a gold medal forher discovery

Maria was the first American women to work as a professional astronomer.

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Sufferage
Definition
the right to express one's will in a political election
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Susan B. Anthony
Definition

Joined Women's rights movement in1852 to which she dedicated mmost of her life toward. She also helped elimanate slavery in America. In 1900 she persuaded the university of Rochester to allow women to enter their doors. Susan (who never maried) died on march 13 1906

as a compassionate advocate for women's rights.(She might have been a lesbian)

 

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NAWSA
Definition

National American Woman suffrage Association

formed in May 1890

It was the most influencial Womans suffrage association.

Term
Theodore Roosovelt
Definition

26th president (1901-1909)

Founder of the Progessive party

worked in the deparment of the Navy.

inthe Spanish-American war he led a small group of soldiers called the "Rough Riders"

He became VP for Pres. McKinley and after Mckinley's assassination Theodore became president

At the youngest age (42)

helped build panama canal

Ended the Russian-Japonese war

the first American to receive a nobe peacel prize

 

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Square Deal
Definition
A phrase coined by TR. it ment that if TR. was in office every american would have their own so called corner of government.
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"The Jungle"
Definition

(1906) A book written by upton Sinclair

to portray the lives of low-wage immigrants, but instead the prime idea that was taken away from the book was; I cannot belive what I have been eating.

This book helped improve the quality of meat in  the U.S.. 

Term
Upton Sinclair
Definition
The Autor of "The Jungle"
Term
The Meat inspection act
Definition
(1906) legislature that enforced the examination of animals before the slaughter, humane methods of slaughter. No more diseased carcasses in the meat aisle.
Term
Pure Food; and Drug act
Definition

States that all food products must be suitable for consumption in order for a person to sell the sustance to a person.

 

The drug act meant that drugs had to be proven before they could be sold to the market. 

Term
NAACP
Definition

The Nation associate for the Advocate of coloured people

(1909)

It is this nation oldest and largest civil rights organization.

Term
Gifford Pinchot
Definition

Was the first chief of the U.S. forestry service

He was origanally from Germany

Term
William Howard Taft
Definition

27th president(1909-1913)

The most wholesome president

Dollar diplomacy

 

Term
Payne Aldrick tariff
Definition

(1909)

Tax reform

It lowered more taxees than it raised

Term
Clayton Anti-trust act
Definition

(1914) prohibited exclusive sales. It stopped corporations from dirrectly elimanated other corporations.

 

Term
Federal Trade Commission
Definition

(1914)

Protect customers

and provote anti-trust legislature

Term
federal reserve system
Definition

(1913)

The creation of a federal bank was made to reduce the chances of a panic or depression

it maintains stability in the financial system

Term
Queen Liliuokalani
Definition
the last ruling monarch in Hawaii
Term
Imperialism
Definition

When one person feels like they should control the another. It can be a country that wants to widen its domain.

The strongest of the countries wins

Term
Alfred Mahan
Definition

claimed that the road to which a nation must follow to become a super power lies in the navy.

"Sea Power"

Term
Yellow Journalism
Definition
A category of journalism that is exciting, but often is over estimated or false. This type of journalism is intended is intended to strike strong the emotions of people who are too prosaic to review an alternate source of information.
Term
U.S.S. Maine
Definition

(1898)

Exploded in Havana

Started the Spanish-American war

Even if no nexus was found between the explosion and Spain.

Term
Platt Amendment
Definition

(1903)

An amendment in the Cuban constitution

Even though Cuba was free

The U.S did not want to have Cuba making its own foreign policy.

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Protectorate
Definition

A relation were a strong state protects a weaker state in exchange for some control of government.

 

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Open-door Notes
Definition

(1899-1900)

It allowed all countries to have equal trading power with china.

Term
Boxer Rebellion
Definition

A nationalist revolution in northern china(1898-1901)

The chinese were opposed to christianity and imperialism

 

 

Term
Panama Canal
Definition

(Who's she?)

A canal the divides Panama in half

it connects the carribean sea to the Pacific ocean

So now we don't have to sail around south America to get to Baja sur.

Term
Roosevelt Collorary
Definition

(1904)

Roosevelt used the Monroe Doctrine as a stepping stone

and stated that European countries must end all activity in the Americas. He also stated something along  the lines of "If you attack any country in the Americas,the U.S. will go to war with the host country."

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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition

Guaranteeded U.S. loans to foreign countries

 

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Militarism
Definition
the use of military units to enforce laws
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The allies
Definition
The group of countries that asisted the U.S. in WWI
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central power
Definition
the league of countries that opposed the Allies in WWI
Term
Luistania
Definition
A ship that was bombed by Germans. After this the U.S joined the Allies
Term
Zimmerman note
Definition
(1917) A German Proposal that Mexico should attack the U.S.
Term
Selective Service act
Definition

(1917)

A secret act that drafted younger men

Term
Conscientious objector
Definition
A person who claims to have the right to not do military service.
Term
Espionage and sedition act
Definition

(1918)

It prohibited an attempt of military interfernence

Term
The 14 points
Definition

A speech given by Woodrow

To encouraged Americans to support the military

Term
League of Nations
Definition

It is a global organization

that was intendednto bring an end to war.

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Versailles
Definition
A treaty that ended WWI
Term
Reparations
Definition
lesislatue that address violations of human rights
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