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Key Vocabulary for Unit Three: American Imperialism and Progressivism
Chapters 19, 20, and 21
Domestic Turmoil and Overseas Expansion
Panic of 1893
Pullman Strike
Eugene V. Debs
Coxey’s Army
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civilizing/Americanizing
Spanish-American War
McKinley vs. Bryan/Election of 1896
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Imperialism
Carlisle Indian School/White Man’s Burden
WCTU/Prohibition
16th and 17th Amendments
Robert La Follette
Open Door Policy
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Reform, 1901-1909
Age of Theodore Roosevelt
Antitrust
Lifestyles of the early 1900s: consumerism
Reforms
Race relations
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Coal Strike of 1902/Square Deal
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
Roosevelt Corollary
Election of 1904
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair
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Hull House
Women’s suffrage
16th and 17th Amendments
Great White Fleet
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Conservation
Panama Canal
Election of 1908
Wright Brothers
Jim Thorpe
Henry Ford
Progressivism at High Tide, 1909-1914
William Howard Taft
TR’s “New Nationalism”
18th and 19th Amendments
Paternalism vs. unionism
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
TR’s Big Stick Diplomacy
Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Federal Reserve (Bank)
Popular Culture of the Progressive Era
Vaudeville Shows
Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Election of 1912