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This president proclaimed that the purpose of the battleship Maine’s visit to Cuba was to protect and evacuate American citizens from the island.
Who was McKinley?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines became possessions of the United States under the provisions of this Treaty with Spain.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
This plan describe's the rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
In this age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was political patronage.
What was the Gilded Age?
He argued that control of the seas was the key to world domination.
Who was Alfred T. Mahan?
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This was Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference.
What was the League of Nations?
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The purpose of these laws was to ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
What are the black codes?
Widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West led to the passage of this act.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
He promoted black economic self-help and development of skills in agriculture and the industrial trades, but did not challenge segregation directly.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This proposal included a reduction of armaments, the principle of national self-determination for subject peoples, and an international organization to guarantee collective security. (time period: WWI)
What are Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
What is the 14th?
“Boss” Tweed’s widespread corruption was finally brought to a halt by the journalists’ exposés of The New York Times and this cartoonist.
Who was Thomas Nast?
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He demanded complete equality for African Americans and believed an intellectually gifted talented tenth of the black community should be given full and immediate access to mainstream American life.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
This was essentially an argument to promote free trade and competition throughout all of China.
What was the Open Door policy?
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They believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, “conquered provinces” that had to seek readmission on whatever economic and political terms Congress demanded.
Who are the Congressional Radical Republicans?
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This case upholding “separate but equal” public facilities in effect legalized the system of unequal representation between the races.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was the Filipino nationalist who led the insurrection against both Spanish rule and the later United States occupation.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
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This secret agreement that President Theodore Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese in 1907-1908 caused Japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board.
What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
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Johnson's dismissal of this Secretary of War contrary to the Tenure of Office Act) was the official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach him.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
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This earlier political organization of the 1850s reflected Nativist and anti-immigrant attitudes.
What was the Know Nothing party?
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