Progressive Era & Imperialism Checkpoint Flashcard

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Who established a settlement house in Chicago called Hull House, which offered help with healthcare, education, and social services?

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Jane Addams

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These journalists drew national attention to social problems during the Progressive Era, dealing with issues like urban poverty, corruption and big business practices?

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Muckrakers

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This Massachusetts legislator and secretary of the state's board of education, lobbied and advocated for free & publicly funded schools, thus the founder of modern public schools?

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Horace Mann

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This Progressive legislation piece ultimately failed as it could not be truly enforced and society didn't really want it, only lasting from 1919 - 1933?

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18th Amendment

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This prominent black leader believed African-Americans would "earn equality" gradually from "white society" and even opened an all black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

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Booker T. Washington

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Theodore Roosevelt used "Big Stick Policy" (military power) as a means for his foreign policy; his Roosevelt Corollary was directly aimed towards whom?

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European Powers

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The United States wanted to imperialize this place specifically for the sugarcane business and to use as a military base; even though we basically took the land from the indigenous people there.

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Hawaii

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Yellow Journalist William R. Hearst helped to start the Spanish-American War by sensationalizing this major event before the start of the war?

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Explosion & sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

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This Filipino revolutionary leader not only helped his people by aiding the U.S. vs. Spain but then he led a revolution against the U.S. when we wouldn't grant them their freedom?

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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In the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the United States gained these territories: Mexico, Guam and Vietnam; Philippines, Cuba & Mexico; Puerto Rico, Guam & Philippine; Guam, Dominican Republic & Philippines?

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Puerto Rico, Guam & Philippine