History Review Midterm
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- DeLome Letter
- Cause: when letter from Spanish Ambassador was sent saying McKinley was weak
- Hawaii Imperialism
- difficulties in getting Hawaii: Japan also wanted it, President Cleveland did not really want it, some Americans opposed it due to racism-got it anyway
- Alfred T. Mahan
- US Admiral who called for a multi-fleet navy
- Theodore Roosevelt (domestic)
- President who pushed to regulate the drug and food industry after reading the jungle; believed in the people; Conservationist; Progressive
- Child Labors
- Was not banned but was slowed down
- Muckrakers
- American writer who wanted to expose corruption, during Progressive Era
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- first antitrust law- at first was vague and of little value until new laws came up to help.
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Started when government lost revenue by lowering tariffs; first federal government regulatory agency; to watch over trade
- Frederick Taylor
- Scientific management; the enforcement of work standards; simple but boring jobs
- 16th Ammendment
- Income tax
- Expansionism
- US expanding to other parts of the world and some Americans wanted no parts of adding tettitories becasue of racism
- Interstate commerce act
- created the ICC-was the first attempt at federal regulation of trade
- Vertical Intergration
- company owns all elements or an industry
- Henry Ford
- Mass production, worker innovations, small profit on large amount of sales; tried many new worker innovations to improve worker relations
- Theordore Roosevelt (foreign)
- He wanted the US to get ready to be a world power; he helped settle the Russo-Japanese War when Japan asked him to help, they were winning but were running out of money.
- Sinking of the Maine
- Cause: It was an American Destroyer that people believed was sunk by Spain
- William McKinley (Foreign)
- president during the Spanish-American War
- Hepburn Act of 1906
- Federal regulatory agency on commerce created
- Warren G. Harding
- return to normalcy plus teapot dome scandal involving government officals
- Underwood tariff
- tax on imports under the Wilson administration
- New Nationalism
- Theodore Roosevelt's domestic plan of stronger presidents and bigger government
- Mergers
- consolidation of two or more companies
- Patronage
- reward ones supporters
- First Federal Income tax
- started when American government needed more money after lowering tariffs
- Election of 1912
- Wilson won because of a split in the Republican party
- New Freedom
- Wilson's domestic plan of smaller government and more business competition
- Commodore Dewey
- suprise victory over the spanish in Spanish- American War in the Philippines
- William H. Taft
- followed Theodore Roosevelt as president- also a Progressive, but had less faith in the government and it's ability to make changes; Taft also got in trouble over to raise or lower tariffs; dollar diplomacy
- Philippine-American War
- war following Spanish-American War that was more costly than Spanish- American War
- Spanish American War
- Causes & Results. Causes: Delome Letter, Sinking of the Maine, Yellow Journalism; American Army was not well trained for this type of war; 3. Yellow Journalism was news writing- that should make new; results: we won; got Philippines and Puerto Rico
- 18th Ammendment
- Prohibition
- 17th Ammendment
- Direct election of senators
- Open Door Policy
- US proposed to keep China open to all nations trade
- American Foreign Policy(Imperialism)
- Reasons for it 1. over-expansion in American markets 2. overabundance or products 3. needed new markets 4. also some political leaders wanted to expand; so we changed from isolationism to expansion
- Calvin Coolidge
- took over for Harding- president who let business alone in the 1920s
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Roosevelt's law which got companies to start labeling their ingredients
- New methods of production
- turn of the century- large sized and mostly mechanized; mass production; and assembly lines
- Women in business (early 1900s)
- very few professional careers open to them still
- 19th Ammendment
- Womens' Vote
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- An addition to the Sherman Antitrust Act which helped get rid of monopolies
- Grandfather Clause
- only whites could vote in southern states
- African Americans in business (early 1900s)
- Worked in the South almost like slaves (Peonage)
- Boxer Rebellion
- Chinese rebellion to remove foreigners in China; failed
- W.E.B. Bubois
- African American leader who believed in getting an education was an important way for African Americans to get ahead
- Federal Reserve Act
- Most important domestic law under Wilson; created the National Banking System