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Progressive Era More Progressive Era Imperialism More Imperialism WWI
Progressive Era More Progressive Era Imperialism More Imperialism WWI
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investigative journalists who wrote about
corruption in business and politics, hoping to
bring about reform.
Muckrakers
nominating election in which voters choose
the candidates who later run in a
general election
Direct Primary
Process of making damaged land protected, and
the government takeover of water programs for
irrigation and dam building projects
Reclamation
1904 presidential campaign slogan pledging
to balance the interests of business,
consumers, and labor
Square Deal
Woodrow Wilson’s progressive reform program;
proposed during the 1912 presidential election
New
Freedom
law that gave the Interstate Commerce
Commission the authority to set railroad rates
and to regulate other companies engaged in
interstate commerce
Hepburn Act
author of The Jungle, which depicted the
unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant
Upton Sinclair
Lost Generation
act that created a national banking system to
help the government control and stabilize
the economy
Federal Reserve
Commission established in 1914 to investigate
corporations and to try to keep them from
conducting unfair trade practices
Dollar Diplomacy
When a particular country has
exclusive rights over mines, railroads,
and trade in a particular region
Sphere of Influence
country dependent on another for protection
Protectorate
American Commodore that opened trade
between American and Japan in 1854
Matthew Perry
catalyst for the Spanish-American War
U.S.S. Maine
granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship and the
right to elect both houses of the legislature
Jones Act
4 leaders of the Mexican Revolution
Alfred T. Mahan
strip of bombed-out territory that separated
the trenches of opposing armies along the
Western Front during WWI.
No Mans Land
armed vessels to escort unarmed merchant
vessels transporting troops, supplies,
or volunteers through the North Atlantic
during WWI
Convoy system
promise issued by German officials during WWI
not to sink merchant vessels without warning
or without assuring the passengers’ safety
Sussex Pledge
Leader of the WIB
Leader of the CPI
Bernard Baruch
George Creel
U.S. forces drove the Germans back into
German lands & weakened the Germany
Forces. German soldiers mutinied and
abandoned the military because they
were sick of war after this Allied campaign
Argonne Forest