Imperialism
This idea, applied to nations and races, suggested that stronger countries would naturally dominate weaker ones, justifying U.S. expansion overseas.
What is Social Darwinism?
The U.S. entered World War I for reasons such as unrestricted submarine warfare and this intercepted German message.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This type of warfare, characterized by soldiers fighting from long, dug-out positions, defined much of the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
This movement in the 1920s celebrated African American culture through music, art, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This belief justified U.S. expansion westward across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This canal, completed under Roosevelt, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and strengthened U.S. influence in Latin America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This event killed over 1,000 passengers and American outrage over it helped shift public opinion toward war.
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
This set of points was President Wilson’s plan for postwar peace.
What are Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This movement saw millions of African Americans leave the South for jobs in Northern cities during and after World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
This conflict between Britain and France in the 1750s set the stage for colonial resentment over taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy was best reflected by this extension of U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)?
During the war, the U.S. government encouraged support through this type of media to influence public opinion.
What is propaganda?
After World War I, the U.S. changed its foreign policy by doing this instead of taking a leading role in global affairs.
What is isolationism?
The 1920s saw this type of law banning alcohol, later repealed because it encouraged crime.
What is Prohibition (18th Amendment)?
This Supreme Court decision established judicial review, giving the Court power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This war between the U.S. and Spain began after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.
What is the Spanish American War?
During WWI, the U.S. government encouraged citizens to buy these to help finance the war effort.
What are war bonds?
After World War I, Congress rejected joining this international organization because they feared it would drag the U.S. into future conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
Automobiles and mass production helped create this type of culture shared across the nation.
What is mass or consumer culture (consumerism)?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention solved the debate over representation in Congress by creating a bicameral legislature with one house based on population and one with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This U.S. policy in China aimed to ensure all nations had equal access to trade and limit other nations’ exclusive control.
What is Open Door Policy?
This act(s) limited criticism of the war and showed tension between civil liberties and national security.
What are the Espionage and/or Sedition Acts?
One of Woodrow Wilson’s post–World War I goals was to prevent future wars by ending what according to international agreements.
What is secret alliances?
This trial highlighted the conflict between modern science and traditional beliefs.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This 1620 agreement established the principle of self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?