Imperialism/WWI
The Treaty of Paris gave the US Guam, Puerto Rico, and this chain of islands in the Pacific.
What is the Philippines?
The term for an intense fear of, and discrimination toward, new immigrants.
What is nativism?
The Union's strategy, which included blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi to "strangle" the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The infamous leader of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
The US initiated trade with China with this policy.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Investigative journalists like Nellie Bly were called this, a term popularized by Teddy Roosevelet.
What are muckrakers?
During Reconstruction, this economic system emerged that kept African Americans in a cycle of debt, known as debt peonage.
What is sharecropping?
Kinda crazy... he tried to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
This secret message, intercepted and decoded by the British, helped convince Americans to join WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
When one company owns businesses at every stage of production and controls an entire industry.
What is vertical integration?
Stephen Douglas supported this idea, which in turn led to a "mini Civil War" known as Bleeding Kansas.
What is popular sovereignty?
He wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" and had a monopoly in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
President Wilson's plan for peace following WWI, when he ironically introduced the idea of the League of Nations, which the US never joined.
What is the Fourteen Points?
Industrial capitalists, also known as robber barons, justified their wealth using this "theory" which basically said the poor were poor because they were too stupid to get rich.
What is social darwinism?
Lincoln issued this in 1863, which redefined the Civil War as a quest to end slavery, in addition to preserving the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Northerners who moved South to gain wealth or political positions during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
In Schenck v. United States, the SCOTUS ruled that this right could be suspended when there is a "clear and present danger".
What is freedom of speech?
William Jennings Bryan famously supported this idea from the Populists, which they believed would put more money into the hands of more people.
What is bimetallism/silver standard?
This Reconstruction Amendment ensured equal protection of the laws, and said states could not deny the rights of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He argued that African Americans should "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" and founded the Tuskegee Institute to provide vocational education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?