Progressivism Test Review

Woodrow Wilson

• Progressive Democratic President during WWI

• Progressive Republican President

• Never became president, but was a famous politician and known for 'Cross of Gold' speech

William Howard Taft

• Considered a Progressive Republican President.

  Successor to Teddy Roosevelt

• Progressive Democratic President

• Socialist president

• Served as president during the Spanish American War

Theodore Roosevelt

• Progressive Democratic President during WWI

• Progressive Republican President. Famous for establishing the national parks and being a Trust Buster

• Wrote the 14 Points after WWI

The Square Deal

• Woodrow Wilson's post WWI peace policy that supported a fair and lenient dealing with enemies in post war.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies that created welfare and Social Security in reaction to the great depression

• Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs"

Big Stick Diplomacy

• Policy of Woodrow Wilson, focused on fair ends to WWI

• The idea that to conduct diplomacy a nation needs a strong military to influence favorable diplomatic negotiations. Policy of Theodore Roosevelt.

• An environmentally focused policy, bent on protecting wildlife refuges and forests.

Roosevelt Corollary

• stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression

• President Roosevelt's plan to establish the national parks

• President Rooselvelt's plan to conquer South America through land invasion of Mexico

Moral Diplomacy

• Diplomacy focused on religious virtues

• System by which code of conduct of diplomats followed

• the system in which support is given only to countries whose beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.

Open Door Policy

• The US policy to allow all immigrants into the US from China

• stablished in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China. T

• Focused on allowed Refuges and asylum seekers to US

Social Darwinism

• Created by Charles Darwin to explain Evolution

• Survival of the fittest amongst animal evolution

• The idea of 'Survival of the fittest' applied amongst humans in the economy

The Boxer Rebellion

• was an ideological and political revolution based on the principles of the American Enlightenment

• was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901. US troops took part in suppressing along side the British.

• uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.