Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a response to this.
What is industrialization?
This form of journalism helped spark the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism (sensationalism)?
Name the three main causes of US entry into WWI.
1. German submarine attacks (Lusitania)
2. Wilson's desire to control post-war settlement
3. Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram proposed a secret alliance between which two countries?
Germany and Mexico.
What concerns did Progressives like Upton Sinclair have about industrial workers?
They wanted to limit the hours and improve the working conditions for workers, but particularly women and children.
What did the Roosevelt Corollary say?
It said that the US has a right to intervene and protect Latin American countries if European powers threaten them.
Some of Wilson's 14 Points were incorporated into which document?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Name at least two countries that the US annexed at the end of the Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico
Guam
Philippines
Cuba
What is criminalize the consumption, sale, and transport of alcohol? (Prohibition)
Name at least one US leader who SUPPORTED Imperialism.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt (or Henry Cabot Lodge or Albert Beveridge)
Name at least two ways that the US mobilized for the war.
1) Selective Service Act (Draft)
2) American Expeditionary Forces
3) War bonds
4) Federal Agencies like War Industries Board and National War Labor Board
Name at least two ways that the U.S. attempted to silence dissent during WWI.
1) Espionage Act
2) Sedition Act
3) Committee of Public Education (propaganda)
This term describes journalists who tried to expose the realities of the industrialized United States.
What is muckraker?
Name at least one reason that Anti-Imperialists opposed Imperialism.
1. The US could not handle taking on new citizens.
2. It goes against the Democratic ideals of the US.
3. It was racist and wrong.
Name at least two impacts that the war had on women in America.
1) Women working outside the home in factories while men were fighting overseas.
2) Passing of the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage)
Imperialism is most directly an extension of what idea?
What is Manifest Destiny?
How did Theodore Roosevelt feel about capitalism?
Roosevelt wanted to regulate capitalism, not end it (Trust busting, working for the consumer)
The Platt Amendment did this in regards to the US and Cuba.
Name at least two effects the war had on African Americans.
1) Great Migration (jobs in the north)
2) Race riots when veterans returned home.
Name the four justifications for Imperialism.
1. Competition with European powers.
2. Ideological: White Man's Burden
3. Economic: Create New Markets
4: Naval: Increase naval bases and naval power