Theodore Roosevelt - American Lion Flashcards

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What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "a m​an who is the head of the family or who rules a clan or a tribe"?
Patriarch
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "a group of businesses combined to reduce competition with other businesses and controlling the prices of their products"?
Trust
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "when newspapers and magazines exaggerate the truth or even lie to make an article seem more interesting in order to attract more buyers"?
Yellow Journalism
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "the policy of extending a nation's authority by claiming control of smaller or weaker places"?
Imperialism
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "the effort to increase the well-being of human - kind by giving large amounts of money or charity"?
Philanthropist
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "disobeying authority"?
Insubordinate
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "one who is strongly partial to his or her own group, religion, race, or politics and does not like those who are different?"
Bigot
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "when one group controls all of the resources, production, and distribution of a product or service?"
Monopoly
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "to persuade someone by using flattery or coaxing to get them to do what you want them to do."
Cajole
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "having the characteristics of a lion?"
Leonine
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "saying one thing but doing another?"
Hypocrite
What word used in the movie TR - An American Lion is defined as "a movement that prompted progress towards better conditions, new policies, ideas, and methods of improving living and working conditions for the poor and strove to get equal treatment for all regardless of gender or color?"
Progressivism
In the society that Teddy Roosevelt lived, what was meant by, "the gap in wealth?"
A few of the rich had most of the wealth and poor majority had to share a small portion of the wealth
What were some improvements made by progressivists in the society of Teddy Roosevelt's time?
1. better working conditions
2. workman's compensation
3. end of child labor
4. 8 hour work day
5. better living conditions
6. old age pension
What were two ways the U.S. practiced Imperialism?
1. Annexing Hawaii
2. Making the Philippines a territory