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Title: Standard 5'7Progressive Movement
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Standard 5.7-Progressive Movement
- Progressive Movement- early 20th century movement
to return control of govt to people and restore
economic opportunity and correct injustices. - Movement of middle class against paying taxes to
corrupt city governments and desired better city
services.
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Standard 5.7-Progressive Movement
- Examples of progressive movement success/failure
- Jane Addams and settlement houses for
immigrants. Protection for child workers, but
state laws were poorly enforced. - Theodore Roosevelt-1st president to give rights
to workers. Carried out anti-trust act, worked
out interstate compacts with railroad. - Booker T. Washington/W.E.B Dubois- education and
opportunity for employment for blacks - Because of WWI most progressive initiatives
stopped.
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Standard 6-1
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Pictoword Assignment
- In your own words, define the 5 following terms
and create a pictoword (small symbol that
illustrates the meaning of the word). - a. Expansionism
- b. Isolationism
- c. Capitalism
- d. Social Darwinism
- e. imperialism
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Standard 6.1
- Expansionism was to secure markets (make money)
- Moved from isolationism to find raw materials and
need for new markets for industry. - Because of depression, strikes farmers unrest
(domestic tension) we needed to expand. - Social Darwinism influenced American expansionism
saying Americans were superior to other cultures. - Imperialism idea emerged
- Competition for European markets contributed to
U.S. emerging as world power.
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Standard 6-1
- Early expansion was due to land hunger, 19th
century expansion was to secure markets. - We needed new raw materials and expanding
capitalism. - The Spanish-American War also initiated our
status as a world power.
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Standard 6-2
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The Spanish American War
- I. Causes of the War
- A. Cubans revolt against Spain over increase in
taxes - B. US investment in Cuba worth 50 million
- C. Yellow Journalism- Sensational stories that
were biased or untrue about Spanish cruelties to
Cubans
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- D. The sinking of the battleship Maine.
- E. The DeLome Letter- letter written by Spanish
Minister to the U.S. calling President McKinley
weak
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- III. Effects of the Spanish American War
- A. US defeats Spain in less than 4 months
- B. Cuba gains independence
- C. Platt Amendment- US can intervene in Cuban
affairs and Naval base at Guantanamo Bay
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D. US gets Puerto Rico and Guam E. For 20million
the US gets the Philippines F. US a
Colonial/Imperial power
What is the point of view of the author of this
cartoon?
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Standard 6-2-Spanish-American War
- U.S. involvement marked us emerging as a world
power. - Getting Hawaii and Manila Harbor was a good
fueling stop on the way to Far East. - Anti-imperialist said this was a waste b/c they
wouldnt be added to the union. McKinley said it
was our duty to govern them b/c they couldnt
govern themselves. - Treaty ending war recognized us owning
Phillipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. control
of Cuba. - Supreme Court said these people do not have the
same rights as U.S. citizens.
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Standard 6-3
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Standard 6-3U.S. Foreign Policy in 20th Century
- Vocabulary
- Open Door Policy
- Boxer Rebellion
- Panama Revolution
- Big Stick Diplomacy
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Moral Diplomacy
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Standard 6-3U.S. Foreign Policy in 20th Century
- CHINA
- European countries had the sphere of
influence-open trade with China. U.S. wasnt in
that so.. - We wanted the sphere of influence to be open to
all world powers. - This Open Door Policy was designed to help the
U.S. economically. - We took a lead role in putting down the Boxer
Rebellion.
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Standard 6-3U.S. Foreign Policy in 20th Century
- We intervened in several Central American
countries to collect taxes to pay trade debts to
Europeans so that wouldnt use military power to
get their money. - Roosevelt Big Stick Diplomacy- issued Corollary
to Monroe Doctrine. - President Taft supported the dollar
diplomacy-protection of our money invested in
Latin American and wed intervene if necessary. - President Woodrow Wilson vowed to use moral
diplomacy in Mexico to teach them to elect good
men . - We supported Panama Revolution from Colombia and
controlled the Panama Canal until late 20th
century.
