SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
THE YEAR THE USS MAINE EXPLODED
What is 1898
THEIR ROLE WAS TO EXPOSE CORRUPTION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, TAKING DOWN A MEAT INDUSTRY AND A ROCKEFELLER
Who are the Muckrakers
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine. This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.
What is The Lusitania
An example of resistance to US control after the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines
The theory that wealth belongs in the hands of those who were fittest to manage it.
What is Social Darwinism
HE STRONGLY FAVORED A WAR WITH SPAIN TO "EXPAND" AMERICAN WORLD POWER, AND WAS A VERY INFLUENTIAL SENATOR
WHO IS HENRY CABOT LODGE?
WILSON'S PLAN TO OVERHAUL THE BANKING INDUSTRY INCLUDED THE CREATION OF THIS THAT WOULD REGULATE BANKS UNDER BANKERS' CONTROL
What is THE FEDERAL RESERVE
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
The causes of this included Yellow Journalism, the Cuban Revolution and the USS Maine explosion.
What is the Spanish-American War
This trade of animals, plants, culture, and human population between American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange
HE PROMOTED AMERICAN OVERSEAS EXPANSION ARGUING FOR AMERICA TO DOMINATE BY SEA POWER
WHO IS ALFRED THAYER MAHAN
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
WHO IS JANE ADDAMS?
The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
Zimmerman Telegram
A territory in the Pacific that the US was interested in for valuable resources like it's sugar and strategic naval bases.
What is Hawaii
The state the union acquired in the Adams-Onis treaty
FLORIDA! (also Oregon)
THIS AMENDMENT DICTATED THE TERMS OF AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN CUBA POST WAR & ESTABLISHED THE MILITARY BASE OF GUANTANAMO
What is THE PLATT AMENDMENT
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.
What is THE JUNGLE?
Two examples of how some Americans (mainly Germans) lost some civil liberties and freedoms during World War I.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts
The causes of this included Yellow Journalism, the Cuban Revolution and the USS Maine explosion.
What is the Spanish-American War
Where nullification found its beginnings (hint: Alien and Sedition acts)
What is the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
AFTER THE MAINE EXPLOSION, HE WAS HESITANT TO DECLARE WAR BECAUSE OF HIS OWN WAR EXPERIENCES DURING THE CIVIL WAR
WHO WAS WILLIAM MCKINLEY
WHICH TWO PROGRESSIVE AREAS DID TEDDY ROOSEVELT MAKE SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESS (what did he focus on)
What is THE CONSUMER AND CONSERVATION
This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. US
Supreme Court Cases that ruled the people in territories taken over by the US during Imperialism are not automatically entitled to the same rights and freedoms as Americans.
What are the Insular Cases
This pamphlet was influential in convincing many Americans that the colonies should declare their independence from Britain
What is Common Sense