EOC Preparation Unit 3
Chapter 9-11
1. The Progressive Movement aimed to restores
opportunities and correct injustices in American
life.
2. The four goals of the progressive movement
include, protecting Social Welfare promoting
moral improvement, creating moral reform and
fostering efficiency.
3. Florence Kelley was an advocate for
improving the lives of women and children.
4. Prohibition is the banning of alcohol, sales
and consumption.
5. One fundamentalists group that fought for
prohibition was the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
6. This style of news reporter known as
Muckrakers wrote about the corrupt sides of
business and public life.
7. Initiative is a bill originated by the people rather
than lawmakers.
8. Referendum is a vote by the people on a given
initiative.
9. Recall enables voters to remove public officials
from elected positions by forcing them to face
another election before the end of their term if
enough voters asked for it.
10. In the fight for women’s rights one of the
leading proponents was Susan B. Anthony
11. The right for women to vote is known as
suffrage
12. A leading group fighting for women’s suffrage
was the National American Women’s Suffrage
Association
13. A famous muckraker that wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
14. Theodore Roosevelt became president after
William McKinley was killed.
15. The term Square Deal was used to describe
various progressive reforms sponsored by the T.
Roosevelt administration.
16. Trusts, are legal bodies created to hold stock
in many companies—in the early 1900s they
controlled about 4/5 of the industries in the United
States.
17. In a recall of the Sherman Anti-Trust,
Roosevelt became known as a Trust-Buster.
18. In the 1902 Coal Strike 140,000 miners in
Pennsylvania went on strike and demanded a 20%
raise, 9 hour work days and the right to organize a
union.
19. The Meat Inspection Act dictated strict
cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and
created the program of federal meat inspection.
20. The Pure Food and Drug Act halted the sale
of contaminated foods and medicines and called
for truth labeling.
21. Conservation is the act of preserving
designated areas of wilderness.
22. The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People was founded in
1909 and aimed for equality amongst the races.
23. The Payne-Aldrich Tariff enforced high tariff
rates
24. The Bull-Moose Party called for direction
election of senators and the adoption in all states
of initiative, referendum and recall.
26. The winner of the 1912 election was
Woodrow Wilson
27. The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 sought to
strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and
prohibited corporations from acquiring the stocks
of another if doing so would create a monopoly.
28. The second major antitrust measure was the
Federal Trade Commission of 1914 and was
known as a “watchdog” agency.
30. The 19th Amendment granted women the
right to vote.
31. Imperialism, is the policy in which in which
stronger nations extend their economic, political, or
military control over weaker territories.
32. Sanford B. Dole was part of the overthrow
committee of Hawaii and helped set up a
government.
33. An early supporter of American expansion
William Seward secretary of state under Abraham
Lincoln negotiated the purchase of Alaska from
Russia in 1867.
34. Annexation is the process of incorporating
territory into an existing country or state.
35. America had a particular interest in obtaining
Cuba from Spain in the late 19th century, however;
Spain refused.
36. Cuba Libre! Was the chant of Cubans desiring
United States intervention to help Cuban rebels to
achieve liberation from Spain.
37. A letter from Spain insulting William McKinley known
as the De Lome Letter leaked out into the publications.
38. On February 15, 1898 the U.S.S. Maine blew up in a
Havana bay harbor, this outraged American citizens and
sparked the Spanish American War.
39. Much to the surprise of the Spanish government, the
first invasion of the Spanish American War took place
in a Spanish colony in the Philippine Islands.
40. In the Treaty of Paris America and Spain ended
their war and came to some mutual agreements
including: America bought the Philippines for $20million,
Spain freed Cuba etc.
41. In 1900, the United States Congress passed the
Foraker Act which ended military rule in Puerto Rico and
set up a civil government. This act gave the U.S.
President the power to appoint certain positions in Puerto
Rican government.
42. Upon obtainment of Cuba the United States made
provisions to the new Cuban constitution known as the
Platt Amendment giving the U.S. some control.
43. A Protectorate is a country whose affairs are
partially controlled by a stronger power.
44. The Open Door Notes were letters addressed to
leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations
share their trading rights with the United States.
45. The Boxer Rebellion was the attempted slaughter of
Western influence in China. The U.S., Britain, France
and Germany helped stop this rebellion, many Chinese
died.
46. The United States purchased for $40million
from France a canal through panama. The United
States needed permission from Colombia to
construct the Panama Canal. When Colombia
refused the U.S. initiated a Panamanian rebellion
against Colombia.
47. Dollar Diplomacy is a policy of using the
nation’s economic power to exert influence over
other countries.
48. The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to
the Monroe Doctrine, it allowed military
intervention for the U.S. to protect its economic
interests internationally.
49. The main causes of the first World War
were Nationalism, Imperialism, and
Militarism
50. Nationalism, is a devotion to interests
and cultures of one’s own nation
51. Militarism is the development of armed
forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy.
52. An alliance system, was formed with the
Allies consisting of France, Britain Russia,
later being known as the Triple Entente
53. The Triple Alliance consisted of Germany,
Austria-Hungary and Italy later known as the
Central Powers
54. The assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria, kicked off WWI due to the
alliance system.
55. The Lusitania, a British liner carrying
Americans was sunk by a German U-Boat.
56. The Zimmerman Note a telegram from the
German foreign minister to the German
ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by
British Agents, led to American distrust of Germany.
57. The Selective Service Act required men to
register with the government in order to be
randomly selected for military service.
58. In 1918, Germany agreed to a cease-fire and
signed the Armistice, or truce, that ended the war.
59. The War Industries Board was the main
regulatory body established in 1917 and promoted
mass production and increased efficiency of
production.
60. The Espionage and Sedition acts was passed
in May 1918 and a person could be fined or given
jail time for interfering with the American War
effort.
61. The Great Migration was the large-scale
movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern
blacks to cities in the north.
62. Wilson’s Fourteen Points were a speech and
Wilson’s plans for world peace.
63. The last of Wilson’s fourteen points called for
the creation of the League of Nations a peace
keeping organization for international leaders to
negotiate.
64. The Treaty of Versailles established 9 new
nations, changed borders.
65. The treaty also demanded that Germany
return the region of Alsace-Lorraine to France and
to pay reparations, or war damages, $33billion to
the Allies.