(1700-1910)
The central issue that caused the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This type of foreign policy, used during the Spanish-American War, involves trying to expand and often take over other places
What is imperialism?
People were accusing each other of being communists
What is the Red Scare?
The way a country deals with other countries
What is foreign policy?
The historical circumstances that led to this
Redlining, Segregation, Racism
This event led to an eventual increase in slavery in the United States because of one of its inventions.
The type of foreign policy that the United States used at the beginning of WWI, when they chose not to get involved
What is isolationism?
What is unemployment?
The opposite of isolationism, this foreign policy involves getting involved in other country's business
What is interventionism?
The historical circumstances that led to this
Laissez-Faire Government, Muckrakers, Lack of Unions
This quote shows this idea:
"Our national birth (and the Declaration of Independence) was the beginning of a new history, which separates us from the past and connects us only with the future...We are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement. Our future history will be to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man—the undeniable truth and goodness of God. America has been chosen for this mission among all the nations of the world, which are shut out from the life-giving light of truth. Her [America’s] high example shall put an end to the tyranny of kings, and carry the happy news of peace and goodwill to millions who now endure an existence hardly better than that of beasts of the field. Who, then, can doubt that our country is destined to be the great nation of the future?”
What is manifest destiny?
The reason the United States joined the Spanish-American War
Yellow Journalism and Imperialism
Women gained it in the 1920s, people of color gained it in the 1950s
What is suffrage?
World War II ended with this event
The historical circumstances that led to this
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. [passed by Congress, January 1865; ratified December 1865]"
The Civil War, Radical Republicans, Reconstruction
Upton Sinclair, who wanted the United States government to regulate the meat industry, is an example of this.
What is a muckraker?
Name at least three places that the United States gained through imperialism
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Guantanamo Bay
Name one barrier to voting before the Civil Rights Movement
What are poll taxes or literacy tests?
This was the main foreign policy during the Cold War
What is containment?
The historical circumstances that led to this.
The Treaty of Versailles, Interventionism, World War One
The large men in this photo are most likely this.
What are robber barons?
Something that helped Hitler come to power between World War I and World War Two
Treaty of Versailles
This was the domestic response to Pearl Harbor, it was later found to be unconstitutional
What are Japanese Interment Camps?
U.S. Foreign Policy before the Zimmerman Telegram in World War I AND before Pearl Harbor in World War II
What is isolationism?
The historical circumstances that led to this
American Isolationism, World War Two