American Imperialism
The belief that the strong in society should control those who are weak. Justification used for discrimination and imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
26th president who took the office after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
First attempt at global council. Nations could vote, discuss, and hopefully prevent wars.
What is the League of Nations?
Immigration law signed in 1921 that put numerical quotas on certain countries.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
Used to describe the economic policies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover before and during the Great Depression.
What is laissez-faire economics?
Teddy Roosevelt's form of diplomacy that used military power to advance US interests.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Women's rights activist and founder of Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Adams?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A cause of the stock market crash, it saw companies taking out large loans and investing them riskily in the stock market.
What is Speculation?
US military ship that exploded in Havana Harbor, leading to the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
What is the National Consumers League (NCL)?
The nation that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir (next in line for the throne) to.
What is Austria-Hungary?
Louis Armstrong played in his famous Creole Jazz Band and he is considered a founding influence on Jazz.
Who is King Oliver?
It employed 8.5 million workers and created key infrastructure, public buildings, and eventually internment camps.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Uprising in China that the United States intervened in, allowing us to establish our Open Door Policy.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
It established direct elections of US Senators to combat corruption.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
Held at the end of the war, all countries met to discuss peace and reparations.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
Name given to describe the economy and economic growth of the 1920s, ending with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is a bull market economy?
Headed by Charles G. Dawes, it gave emergency loans to banks, railroad companies, and businesses.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
It declared that Cuba is in the sphere of the United States, granting the US the "right to intervene" to preserve order and keep Europe out.
What is the Platt Amendment (1901)?
Created by Wilson, it looked to monitor and prevent monopolies.
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
Sunk by Germany, 7 May 1915, it was a leading cause of ending American neutrality.
What is the Lusitania?
Signed in 1928, it was an international agreement between countries to not use war as a form of diplomacy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
It allowed more money to go to the federal reserve to continue giving out more emergency loans and fight deflation.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933?