Week 13 Day 3/4 Test Review

Hey guys I know its a little late but if any of you are staying up to study I compiled a test review that I hope will be helpful.

Expansionism:
-frontier is closed
-needed new markets
-European countries already expanding
-Social Darwinism- survival of the fittest
-Needed bases to control the seas
-missionary opportunity
 Anti-Expansionism:
-cultural pollution of lower races
-had to compete with cheaper labor
-would need peacetime military to regulate colonies- could lead to coup


Spanish American War:
-America Declares war on Spain after the Maine is blown up
-Gained respect, as well as many islands

Philippine War
- war to take control over the Philippines, more fighting than it took to take the Philippines

China
-already divided amongst many European countries
- Open door policy: no interference with other countries trade
-Boxer Rebellion - rebellion in China against all foreigners


Progressives- People who supported a reform movement at the beginning of the 20th century. They were against monopolies, corruption, social injustice and inefficiency
- 2 goals: control trusts with state power, stem socialist threat by improving conditions of life and labor
-favored initiatives, referendum and recall
-pressured for 17th amendment to be passed
-settlement house movement- exposed middle class women to lower class living
-women's trade union league and National Consumers league- female activist organizations
Muckrakers- reform-minded journalists that wrote in sensationalist magazines

Theodore Roosevelt
-Square deal- 3 parts: control of corporations, consumer protection, conservation of natural resources
- Threatened to operate mines with federal troops when mines spokesmen refused to negotiate
-Challenged Northern securities company when it trid to have a monopoly
-Meat inspection act of 1906- regulated meat packing industry
-Pure food and Drug act of 1906- prevent mislabeling of foods
-Made a mistake of saying he would not run for a third term, However he comes back in 1912 in the Bull moose party
-Chose Taft as his successor, Taft win election of 1908
-Preached New Nationalism
-mediated Venezuelan Debt Crisis

Woodrow Wilson
-based policies on sincerity and morality
- Severely lowered tariffs, called for an income tax
-Reformer of the Banking system
-Federal Reserve Act- Federal Reserve Board oversaw 12 federal reserve banks

William Taft
- splits republican party with Payne-Aldrich Bill
-used dollar diplomacy, where he used investments in foreign areas for defenses and foreign policy.
-Brought 90 lawsuits against trusts while in office

Regulations of Companies
-Department of Commerce created by Congress 1903
-Elkins act- fines could be placed on railroads that gave rebates
-Hepburn act- expands interstate commerce commission onto express companies, sleeping car companies, and pipelines
- Dissoluted Standard Oil Company

Conservation:
-Desert Land Act of 1887- federal governemnt sold land cheaply if it was irrigated within 3 years
-Forest Reserve Act of 1891- authorized president to set aside forests as national parks and other reserves
-Carey Act of 1894- distributed federal land to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled

Hope this helps, if I missed anything please comment!