Foreign Policy Beginnings
This was the first American ship to trade with China after the American Revolution.
What is the Empress of China?
These newspapers exaggerated stories to increase support for war with Spain.
What is Yellow Press?
This passenger ship sunk by Germany in 1915, killing Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
Millions of African Americans moved from the rural South to northern cities in this movement.
What is the Great Migration?
These laws were passed to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in foreign war.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. gaining Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
The Spanish-American War
This secret German message proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Young women in the 1920s known for challenging traditional behavior and fashion.
What is a Flapper?
This policy allowed countries to buy U.S. goods if they paid cash and transported them themselves.
What is Cash and Carry?
The policy warned European countries not to colonize or interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This amendment promised the U.S. would not annex Cuba after the war with Spain.
Woodrow Wilson's peace plan after WW1 that included the League of Nations.
What are the 14 points?
This 1920s cultural era was known for jazz music and social change.
What is the Jazz age?
This act allowed the U.S. to supply weapons to allied countries during WW2.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This Shoshone women helped guide Lewis and Clark and communicate with Native American tribes.
Who is Sacagawea?
This amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba's government.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This government agency created propaganda to encourage Americans the support WW1.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
This leader promoted Black pride and the "Back to Africa" movement
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This group strongly opposed U.S. involvement in WW2.
What is the America First Committee?
This law stopped American trade with foreign countries in an attempt to pressure Britain and France.
What is the Embargo Act?
The last queen of Hawaii who was overthrown before the U.S. annexed the islands.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
This law allowed the U.S. government to draft men into the military during WW1.
What is the Selective Service Act?
A corruption scandal involving secret oil leases and bribes during the 1920s.
These U.S. Actions toward Japan in 1941 included freezing Japanese assets and stopping oil sales.
What is FDR's economic sanctions on Japan?