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| Progressivism is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action. |
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| was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays and children's rights is widely regarded today. |
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| practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. |
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| closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900. |
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| an American Republican (and later a Progressive) politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. |
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| means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote |
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| direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. |
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| procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote |
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| procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote |
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| defined "intoxicating liquors" to exclude those used for religious purposes, established Prohibition in the United States |
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| prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex |
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| was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as the "Miss Mitchell's Comet". |
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| the civil right to vote gained through the democratic process. |
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| prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. |
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| National American Woman Suffrage Association - an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 . |
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| the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement. |
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| domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. |
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| Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the life of the immigrant in the United States. |
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| an American author who wrote close to 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. |
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| a United States Congress Act that worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. |
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| a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. |
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| the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania. |
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| the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices. |
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| began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States. |
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| was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. |
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| an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. |
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| the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907. |
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| born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. |
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| defined by The Dictionary of Human Geography, is "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationships, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination. |
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| a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century. |
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| type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. |
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| was the United States Navy's second commissioned pre-dreadnought battleship. |
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| a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act presented to the U.S. Senate by Connecticut Republican Senator Orville H. Platt replacing the earlier Teller Amendment. |
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| adopted by modern international law, it is an autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity. |
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| concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country. |
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| also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement. |
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| ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. |
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| an extension of the Monroe Doctrine by United States President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. |
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| used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
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| the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
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| In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them. |
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| one of the two warring factions in World War I. |
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| was a British ocean liner. |
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| was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. |
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| which was passed by the Congress of the United States on May 18, 1917. It was for men to go to WWI at a young age. |
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| is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. |
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| is United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. |
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| was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. |
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| an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |
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| was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
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| a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States, in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over several centuries. |
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