Unit 6 Vocabulary

Imperialism.

• The act of a nation having an emperor.

• Spreading a nation's influence, obtaining territory, or acquiring economic growth or resources through military or political means.

• Waging war against your neighbors in order to gain more territory.

• Using a nation's military conquests to spread your civilization to other places.

Muckrakers

• Tools used to clear away sanitation ditches.

• Term for sanitation workers in cities.

• Term for journalists who wrote articles that exposed corruption and social problems.

• Journalists who wrote sensationalized and often untrue stories to pursue a particular agenda.

Suffrage

• Term for the fight for equal rights for women.

• Term for those who fought for those who suffered because of the unfairness of society.

• Term for the fight for the right to vote.

• Term for those who tend to suppress their rage.

White Supremacy

• The idea that white people are superior to other races and thus should dominate and control all aspects of society.

• The idea that the color white represents the purest qualities of humanity.

• The belief in a master race.

• The idea that God created white people first.

Trust

• That bond between two people or organizations.

• An individual or company that controls an entire industry. (example: railroads or coal mining)

• The social contract between a government and its people.

• An individual or company that controls all aspects of production, distribution, merchandising, and sale of an product.

The Jungle

• A book by Rudyard Kipling about a boy who was raised by jungle animals.

• A book by Edgar Rice Burroughs about a man who lives in the jungle who meets a woman named Jane.

• A book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the abusive and unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry.

• A book that introduced the concept of Social Darwinism.

White Man's Burden

• A poem by Rudyard Kipling that supported the idea of Imperialism by maintaining that it was the burden of white people to bring civilization to people of other races around the world.

• The belief that white people are a superior race.

• The belief that white people are burdened with the bulk of the social reform in the world.

• A poem that portrayed white people as Christ like figures who carried the burdens of the rest of the world on their backs.

Trust Buster

• The government practice of breaking up companies that controlled entire industries.

• The act of either a government or its people violating their social contract through lawlessness or abuse of power.

• The Progressive Era term for the breaking up of Labor Unions.

• The government practice of deregulating industry.

Yellow Press Journalism

• The practice of exposing corruption or societal problems.

• The practice of writing news articles that were critical of Asian people.

• The practice of writing news articles that sensationalized or even fictionalized events for the purpose of a achieving a set agenda.

• The practice of reporting the news in a bias or prejudicial way.

"Big Stick Policy"

• The practice of violently cracking down against Union protests.

• A method companies used to bully striking workers.

• The foreign policy made popular by Teddy Roosevelt of backing up diplomacy with military force.

• The policy that promoted military spending as the priority for the nation.