Imperialism/Progressivism/WW1Test

• John D. Rockefeller


  Owned an oil tycoon
• William Tweed


  Controlled elections in NYC
• Theodore Roosevelt 


  progressive President
• William H. Taft

  Roosevelts vice president
• Woodrow Wilson 


  tried to keep the U. S out of war
• Matthew Perry 


  Led U. S war ship and convinced the Japanese emperor
• Queen Liluokalani 


  a part of Hawaiian royalty
• Franz Ferdinand 


  Heir to the throne of Austria hungary and got shot
• Gavrilo Princip


  Assassinated archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Arthur Zimmerman 


  A German foreign minister trying to get Mexico to WW1
• Upton Sinclair 


  Wrote a book to reveal the meat industrys problem
• Cornelius Vanderbilt 


  Made lawmakers to pass laws to help railroads
• Civil service 


  Forced people to take a test
• Isolationists 


  Want the to stay out of the business of other countries
• propaganda 


  misleading nature to publicize a point of view
• Yellow journalism

  exaggerated or made up new stories to attract readers and influence their ideas
• Trusts


  Giant corporations groups of companies organized by leg businesses
• Armistices


  11th day, 11th month, 11th hour, was signed to stop the war
• Muckraker


  Writers who revealed corruption in industry
• Protectorate


  Country party controlled by a more powerful country
• Capitalism


  Businesses compete with each other to make a profit
• prohibition

  prevention of the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages
• Corollary

  A foreign policy that gave the right to act in countries in the western hemesphere
• Stalemate

  When neither sides win or lose
• Bonds

  Provided the government money for WW1
• Annex

  You make them part of your country
• Issues of the gilded age

  Workers had low wages

  had a lot of problems
• Examples of business and government reforms

  Civil service act

  income taxes

  pure food and drug act

  prohibitions
• examples of muckrakers

  Jacob Riis

  Upton Sinclair

  Ida Tarbell
• Causes of women fought for

  Women suffrage

  child labor

  prohibition
• U.S Interactions in Asia

  Open door policy

  trade
• Effects of the Spanish american war

  treaty of Paris

  Cuba became republic in 1902
• Reasons for building the panama Canal

  Provides water to the cities of panama

  easier way to ship goods
• Causes of WW1

  Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

  germany millenarianism
• Reasons for the U.S joining WW1

  Zimmerman telegram

  Lusitania

  german invasion
• WW1 impact on the lives of Americans at home

  Millions of women were able to go to work

  African American soldiers started modern civil rights movement