Across
- 3. aimed at breaking up trusts and monopolies, giving rights and protection to the middle/lower class
- 5. acquiring territory or gaining political/economic control of “weaker” countries
- 6. President Taft extends the Roosevelt Corollary by guaranteeing loans to all latin american countries
- 7. chinese citizens rebelling against the open door policy and the european countries controlling it
- 9. Movement of missile class americans who set out to tackle america’s problems
- 11. The treaty that was formed between the spanish, the US, and all other involved countries at the end of the spanish-american war
- 14. Teddy Roosevely believed that the US should be the policeman of the world, and it is our job to threaten/protect/intervene when needed to solve the world’s problems
- 15. purchased/liberated from their original controllers, allowed American sphere of influence to expand to pacific, and provide many natural resources
- 19. the movement to ban alcohol
- 25. people now vote for senators instead of by appointment
- 26. a canal dug through panama, which was funded by the government when civil war in colombia broke out
- 27. clickbait before clickbait was called clickbait. Typically newspapers spreading false information for more sales
- 30. March 1911, a clothing factory catches fire and burns down, killing nearly all workers inside
- 31. someone who exposed evils and corruptions of society through photography and journalism
- 32. president in 1901-1909, he was the first progressive president
- 34. a cavalry battalion, 8000 men strong under the command of Teddy Roosevelt, who fought in the Spanish American War
- 35. amendment to the treaty of paris that gave cuba its sovereignty, but made it have to get all actions approved by the US
- 36. People now can propose bills, rather than just lawmakers
Down
- 1. Passed after The Jungle, it prevents mislabelling of food, selling bad food, and created the FDA
- 2. Written by Upton Sinclair, it exposed the meatpacking industry
- 4. A faster way of making things, invented by Henry Ford
- 8. famous muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry, wrote the book The Jungle
- 10. People can now vote on whether or not to pass a bill
- 12. european countries forcing china’s trading door open in an attempt to “westernize” them
- 13. happened after the spanish american war, the philippines wanted their own independence. Lasted 3 years, and was very bloody
- 16. allowed women to vote, passed because of WWI
- 17. Preservation, protection, and restoration of natural environments
- 18. began in august 1898 when Spain imperialized cuba for natural resources
- 20. Danish immigrant who became a police photographer and later a muckraker
- 21. Christian people helping the poor, fighting against child labor, building standards, and child education
- 22. women’s right to vote, fought since 1848
- 23. US Navy battleship that blew up in Manila Bay, prompting a US retaliation to the spanish
- 24. Americans who through that america should not interfere in international affairs
- 28. a state controlled by another state
- 29. The amendment that outlawed alcohol
- 33. people can vote a governmental official out of office if they don’t like them