Civil War
What event officially began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Who were muckrakers?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Warned Europe against interfering in the Western Hemisphere.
What does M.A.I.N. stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.
What was the League of Nations?
International organization intended to prevent future wars.
What 2 factors was the Civil War about? What was the North's goal?
1. Slavery
2. State's rights
North's goal was to preserve the Union.
What did Upton Sinclair's The Jungle lead to?
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food & Drug Act.
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Advocate of sea power and a strong navy.
Why did the United States enter WWI?
Lusitania, Zimmermann Telegram, unrestricted submarine warfare.
What was the War Guilt Clause?
Germany accepted responsibility for WWI.
How did the Anaconda Plan help the Union win the Civil War?
It called for a blockade of Southern ports and control of the Mississippi River, cutting off Confederate supplies and trade.
What were Roosevelt's Three C's?
Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection, Conservation
What factors lead up to the Spanish-American War?
Yellow journalism, sinking of the Maine.
What did the WIB, CPI, and Food Adminstration do do?
War Industries Board -- turned economy towards production for the war.
Committee on Public Information -- propaganda and promoting sale of war bonds.
Food Administration -- campaign to conserve food for the war.
Who were Reservationists, Irreconcilables, and Internationalists?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the Civil War?
It made ending slavery a major Union war goal and allowed African Americans to join the Union Army.
How did Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey differ?
Why was the Panama Canal strategically important?
Faster trade and stronger naval movement.
How did convoys help the Allies?
Protected ships from U-Boats.
What was the Red Scare?
Fear of communism, radicalism, and immigrants after WWI.
Define each: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Missouri Compromise (1820): Banned slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Compromise of 1850: Admitted California as a free state in exchange for passing a fierce, federally enforced Fugitive Slave Act.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854): Repealed the Missouri Compromise line by letting territories use popular sovereignty (voting) to decide on slavery, sparking "Bleeding Kansas."
How did Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson differ as Progressives?
Roosevelt = Square Deal.
Taft = trustbusting. 16th Amendment.
Wilson = New Freedom/Federal Reserve/FTC. 19th Amendment.
How did the Roosevelt Corollary expand the Monroe Doctrine?
Allowed U.S. intervention in Latin America. International police.
How did the AEF under Pershing differ from European trench warfare?
Emphasized offensive open warfare rather than trench stalemate.
How did the Dawes Plan, Washington Naval Conference, Four-Power Treaty, and Kellogg-Briand Pact reflect 1920s foreign policy?
Attempted to stabilize the world, avoid future wars, and protect American economic interests.