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Booker T. Washington
Author, educator, African American, Tuskegee Institute
W.E.B DuBois
Writer, founded NAACP, wanted equality for Black people
Jim Crow
Required segregation of white and Black people, common in the south
Plessy V Ferguson (1896)
Determined that white people and Black people would have separate but equal facilities
Square Deal
Interest of business, consumers, and laborers should be balanced for public good, Theodore Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
Writer of the Jungle which was about meat processing industry problems, muckraker
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prohibited mislabeled or contaminated food or drugs
Imperialism
Building an empire by conquering other nations or founding colonies
Purchase of Alaska
Sewards Folly, US bought from Russia in 1867
Imperialism in Hawaii
Wanted for sugar, became a US territory in 1900
Imperialism in Japan
Had open trade with US, invaded China, went to war with Russia
Open Door Policy
All nations should have equal access to trade in China
Spanish-American War
US won in 1898, gained Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Cuba became independent
Yellow Journalism
A style of newspaper using exaggeration to sell papers
Battleship Maine
Ship that exploded in 1898, was blamed on Spain
Panama Canal
Was built to decrease the travel time for ships
Monroe Doctrine
A policy by the US to not allow colonization of the US, James Monroe
Roosevelt Corollary
US would intervene to make sure other nations didn't intervene
Dollar Diplomacy
Influencing Latin America with money
Causes of WWI (M.A.i.N.)
Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, Nationalism - Austria-Hungary Expansion, Serbian Nationalism, Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
US Neutrality
President Woodrow Wilson declared US neutral at start of WWI
Lusitania
Ship sank by Germans, 1200 people died
Zimmerman Note
Arthur Zimmerman, telegram from Germany to Mexico offering alliance and US land
Committee on Public Information (popaganda)
Tried to raise support for the war - rallies, parades, posters
Espionage Act of 1917
Punished people for aiding enemy or refusing military duty