AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Sensational reporting that stirred public support for war with Spain.
What is yellow journalism?
Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
America’s foreign policy at the start of World War I.
What is neutrality?
Industrial jobs in the North and discrimination in the South led to this demographic shift during World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
Amendment that banned alcohol nationwide.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The 1898 war that marked the start of U.S. overseas expansion.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Policy asserting U.S. police power in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
German attacks on ships without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
The law passed to punish interference with the U.S. war effort.
What is the Espionage Act?
A cultural movement of the 1920s in which African Americans expressed artistic talent and racial pride.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Three overseas territories the United States gained after defeating Spain.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
The doctrine the Roosevelt Corollary was based on.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
German message proposing an alliance with Mexico.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Socialist leader jailed for opposing the war.
Who is Eugene Debs?
Mass production and advertising made consumer goods affordable, leading Americans to buy more products.
What is consumerism?
The U.S. fought a war to keep control of the Philippines after 1898.
What is the Philippine-American War?
The main reason the United States wanted to build the Panama Canal.
What is to ship goods more efficiently between the East and West Coasts?
President Wilson’s plan to create lasting peace after World War I.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Reason the government limited civil liberties during WWI.
What is national security?
New forms of entertainment in the 1920s that helped Americans across regions share the same ideas, values, and trends.
What are radio and movies?
A common argument used by supporters of U.S. imperialism in the early 1900s.
What is the belief that the United States had a duty to spread liberty and democracy?
The region where the United States most frequently intervened in the early 1900s.
What is Latin America?
The main reason many U.S. senators opposed joining the League of Nations.
What is the fear of being drawn into foreign conflicts?
The constitutional freedom most directly limited by the Espionage Act.
What is free speech?
Fear of communism and socialism after World War I that led the U.S. to restrict immigration.
What is the Red Scare?