PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Page 9)1. Progressives wanted more government

regulation to protect worker’s rights and business competition

2. Believed government should increase social welfare programs such as unemployment, health insurance, and social security

3. Wanted more citizen involvement in government

GOALS OF THE PROGRESSIVES (Page 10)Government should:1. be more accountable to citizens 2. Reduce power and influence of the wealthy 3. Expand their power to improve lives of

citizens

URBAN LIVING CONDITIONS (Page 11) 1. Tenements were dirty, run-down and

overcrowded2. Sewers attracted rats and contagious

diseases spread easily due to crammed spaces

3. Muckrakers exposed poor conditions in tenement houses and industry; Jacob Riis’s, How the Other Half Lives, led to New York State’s passage of laws to improve tenements

ARGUMENTS USED TO DENY WOMEN SUFFRAGE (Page 12) 1. Threat to the stability of American society

and government 2. Worried that women would become too

masculine 3. Concerned that politicians would

manipulate them 4. Believed politics would distract them from

their home duties 5. Polls reflected that many women did not

want to vote

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE (Page 13) 2. Married women could buy, sell, and be willed

property; women investigated and publicized poor social conditions – all due to NAWSA

3. Years of legal efforts failed; NAWSA efforts helped women win suffrage

4. Congress gave into political pressure and work of NAWSA; they were disturbed when the heard how some women reformers were treated in filthy jails

19th Amendment – gave women the right to vote in 1920

AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION (Page 14)Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Taught students the

skills they needed to survive in American society

Urged blacks to use their intellect

Believed whites will accept blacks if they succeeded economically

Some whites worried educated blacks would seek equality

Believed brightest blacks should step forward and lead their people in their quest for equality

Only when blacks gain knowledge of the world will they be able to lead

GAINS IN THE PACIFIC (Page 15)1. U.S. renewed a treaty that allowed

Hawaiian sugar to be sold to the nation duty-free; Hawaii leased Pearl Harbor to the U.S. as a fueling and repair station; white planters forced king to accept a new constitution; 1893 – Marines and Dole removed Queen Liliukalani from power

2. McKinley claimed it was Manifest Destiny; Congress agreed U.S. needed naval stations to protect our trade

AN OPEN DOOR TO CHINA (Page 15)Spheres of Influence = areas of economic

and political control set up in China by Russia, Germany, Britain, and France

1.Open Door Policy = Secretary of State, John Hay (U.S.), wanted European powers to allow them equal access to China’s millions of consumers

2.Boxer Rebellion (1900) = Chinese society of Boxers wanted foreigners out of their country so they massacred 300 foreigners and Christian Chinese; U.S. and European forces defeated the Boxer rebellion

YELLOW JOURNALISM (Page 16)“The Journal” – U.S. newspaper that printed

a story about a young Cuban girl being help prisoner and mistreated by the Spanish – controversial story made Americans angry

Controversial stories led to high profitsAmericans felt ready to take action outside of

their borders since the U.S. was growing and becoming more powerful

All this contributed to our entry into the Spanish-American war

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (Page 17)1. The de Lome letter (Spanish minister to the US

who made fun of McKinley), sinking of the USS Maine, rebellion in the Philippines and Cuba

2. McKinley inspired Americans by telling them to “Remember the Maine!” (our battleship that exploded in January 1898 – it was unclear how it blew up but the press blamed Spain)

3. Treaty of Paris – U.S. issued Teller Amendment (we would have no interest in controlling Cuba), Cuba became independent, Spain gave the U.S. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines for $20 million

Platt Amendment – gave U.S. the power to intervene in Cuban affairs and prevented them from making treaties

PANAMA CANAL (Page 18)1. U.S. had the French company who owned the

canal-building rights to stage a Panamanian rebellion against Colombia; U.S. threatened to use its fleet against Colombia and proclaimed itself Panama’s protector; Hay-Bunau-Virilla Treaty (1803) – gave the U.S. the grant to build the canal in an independent Panama for $10 million

2. Easier transportation, connected Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, gave us more power and influence in Latin America

3. Complete control of Panama Canal Zone = better trading and military bases