Imperialism
The constitution did not necessarily apply to newly acquired territories, therefore not guaranteeing the same rights as American citizens - "The constitution does not follow the flag"
What were the Insular Cases?
1. Restricted number of immigrants from a country to 3% of total people from that country living in the US in 1910 (favored Southern and Eastern Europeans)
2.Banned immigration from East Asia
3. Quotas cut from 3% to 2% using the 1890 census, continued to hurt New Immigrants and restricted Japanese immigration
What were:
1. Emergency Quota Act 1921
2. National Origins Act 1924
3. Immigration Act 1924
Increased expression of African American culture through poetry, art, and music (jazz) ex) Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
1. voters propose legislation
2. voters could vote on/override certain laws
3. voters could remove elected officials
What are:
1. Initiative
2. Referendum
3.Recall
Teddy Roosevelt's international philosophy that claimed that "developed" countries need to help "undeveloped" countries --> Speak softly and carry a big stick
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Naval power will bring the United States up as a world power
Who was Alfred Thayar Mahan?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What are the Causes of WWI?
Criticized middle class culture through literature
Who were the Lost Generation?
1. Income tax
2. Direct Election of Senators
3. Prohibition of Alcohol
4. Women's Suffrage
What were:
1. The 16th Amendment
2. The 17th Amendment
3. The 18th Amendment
4. The 19th Amendment
Taft's policy that claimed the US should economically intervene in Latin American countries to help US investors while also helping Latin American economies.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Emilio Aguinaldo advocated for the liberation of the Philippines after the US gained it from Spain after the Spanish American War
What was the Filipino Insurrection?
Toured the world to demonstrate US Naval Superiority
What was the Great White Fleet?
Radical Anti-Communist Sentiment after WWI ex) Palmer Raids
What was the Red Scare?
Advocated reform in government policies ex) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Ida Tarbell's expose of Standard Oil
What were Muckrakers?
Wilson's policy that states democratic countries must use their power to spread democracy to other nations.
What was Moral Diplomacy?
Allowed the United States to construct a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What was the Hay-Paunceforth Treaty (Panama Canal)?
Germany urged Mexico to attack the US to distract them from the war in Europe, Great Britain sent it to the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Movement of African Americans from Southern plantations into Northern City Ghettos
What was the Great Migration?
Promoted by Teddy Rooselvelt, encouraged the preservation of natural resources and land ex) Forest Reserve Act, Newlands Act 1902
What was Conservation?
Teddy Roosevelt's policy that promoted conservationism and worked to break up monopolies and support unions.
What was the Square Deal?
Caused by the sinking of the Maine, the De Lome letter, and Yellow Journalism, desire to free the Cubans from Spanish oppression, Rough Riders, US gained Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam as territories.
What was the Spanish American War?
Advocated by President Wilson after WWI, proposed ideas to build a better world, including self-determination and a international organization called the League of Nations.
What were Wilson's 14 Points?
Rose up due to the Great Migration of African Americans in cities, worked to limit the rights of minorities and immigrants
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
Challenged fundamentalism by teaching evolution in a Tennessee school, found guilty, fueled religion vs secularism, first radio-broadcasted trial
Laissez Faire policies led to greater economic gap between the wealthy and the poor.
What were the policies of Harding and Coolidge?