Reforms
Community centers that provided services like education, childcare, and job help for immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would act as an “international police power” in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The belief that a strong military is necessary to protect national interests.
What is militarism?
A belief that favors native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
Sensational reporting that exaggerated events to influence public opinion.
What is yellow journalism?
This Progressive belief argued that Christians should address social problems caused by industrialization.
What is the Social Gospel?
William Taft’s foreign policy that emphasized U.S. economic investment abroad.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Government-created messages designed to influence public opinion during wartime.
What is propaganda?
This early immigration law limited the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. each year based on nationality.
What is the Quota Act of 1921?
The constitutional amendment that allowed voters to directly elect U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Author of The Jungle, which exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The belief that powerful nations should control weaker territories.
What is imperialism?
Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace after World War I.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The post–World War I period marked by fear of communism and political radicalism in the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
African Americans’ movement from the rural South to Northern cities during WWI.
What is the Great Migration?
This amendment outlawed the manufacturing, distribution, and sales of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Name one territory gained by the United States following the Spanish-American War
What is Cuba (Philippines, Guam)?
The 1917 Supreme Court case that upheld limits on free speech during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This law sharply reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe by using national-origins quotas.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
The peace treaty that formally ended World War I and punished Germany with territorial losses and reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A reform that allows voters to approve or reject laws.
What is a referendum?
Popular slogan used to rally support for war with Spain during the Spanish-American War
What is “Remember the Maine!”?
The U.S. laws passed during World War I that punished speech seen as disloyal or anti-war.
What are the Sedition and Espionage Acts?
Two Italian immigrants whose controversial trial reflected nativism and anti-radical fears in the 1920s.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
This leader promoted Black nationalism and the “Back to Africa” movement, rejecting integration as a path to equality in the U.S.
Who is Marcus Garvey?