Expansion
This 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain resulted in the U.S. acquiring territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, marking a significant step in America's emergence as a global power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This extension of the Monroe Doctrine, articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, asserted that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability and protect American interests.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This movement, occurring from 1916 to 1970, saw over six million African Americans relocate from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West, seeking better job opportunities, escaping racial segregation, and improving their quality of life. This began as a result of World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
These principles, outlined by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918, were intended to guide peace negotiations and promote lasting global stability after World War I, including proposals for free trade, self-determination, and the creation of the League of Nations.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This period, after World War I and in response to the Bolshevic Revolution in Russia was characterized by widespread fear of communism in the U.S., leading to government crackdowns on suspected radicals, labor leaders, and immigrants.
What is the Red Scare?
This conflict, fought from 1899 to 1902, arose after the U.S. annexed the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, leading to a brutal insurgency by Filipino nationalists seeking independence.
What is the Philippine-American War?
As part of American expansion in the early 20th century, this strategic waterway, completed in 1914, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, bolstering U.S. military and economic influence in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.
What is the Panama Canal?
These government agencies, such as the War Industries Board and the Food Administration, were created during World War I to oversee production, resources, and rationing, ensuring that the U.S. economy supported the war effort efficiently.
What are wartime boards?
Formed after World War I as part of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, this international organization aimed to prevent future conflicts, but the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, preventing the U.S. from joining.
What is the League of Nations?
These 1919-1920 raids, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, aimed to arrest and deport suspected radicals, anarchists, and communists during the First Red Scare, resulting in the violation of civil liberties for many individuals.
What are the Palmer Raids?
What is the term for the U.S. expanding globally, using diplomacy and military force to acquire territories annexing Hawaii, taking the Philippines, and the constructing the Panama Canal.
What is imperialism?
This German tactic during World War I involved sinking any ship, including civilian and neutral vessels, around Britain without warning, which contributed to the U.S. entering the war after the sinking of ships like the Lusitania.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Passed in 1917 during World War I, this law made it a crime to interfere with military operations, support U.S. enemies, or obstruct military recruitment, and was used to suppress dissent against the war.
What is the Espionage Act?
Ratified in 1919, this amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States, leading to the era of Prohibition until its repeal in 1933.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This private letter, written by the Spanish ambassador to the U.S., criticized President William McKinley, calling him weak and ineffectual. Its publication in 1898 fueled anti-Spanish sentiment and contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
What is the De Lôme Letter?
This secret diplomatic communication from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by the British in 1917, proposed a military alliance against the United States and was a key factor in the U.S. decision to enter World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This labor leader and five-time presidential candidate was imprisoned in 1918 for his anti-war activism and violation of the Espionage Act, but remained a prominent figure in American socialism.
Who is Eugene Debs?
In the early 20th century, the U.S. implemented a series of laws to limit the number of immigrants from certain countries, particularly targeting Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians due to fears of communism. Name ONE law.
Emergency Quota Act
Immigration Act of 1924
Ratified in 1920, this amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States, marking a significant victory in the women’s suffrage movement.
What is the 19th Amendment?