Imperialism & Spanish American War
The publishing of exaggerated stories, such as the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine, that influenced American to declare war on Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This policy allowed Japanese American students to attend public schools in California.
What is the Gentlemen's agreement?
This U.S. president was instrumental in busting up trusts, building the Panama canal, the Square Deal, consumer protection, and conservation.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
These helped to pay for the war as well as raise taxes on American corporations.
What are Liberty Bonds?
This placed blame for the war on Germany and placed many punitive consequences in this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Name the group of men that volunteered and went to Cuba to help fight in the Spanish American War.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Foreign policy by Taft, which advised using investments as a strategy to build foreign relations.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This radical union aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers, advocated social revolution, and led several major strikes.
What are the Industrial Workers of the World?
The declaration Wilson made during the war to share his ideas on how to gain peace post war.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
A period of fear and persecution in the United States occurred in the early 20th century because they feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology.
What is the Red Scare?
"Remember the ________ to Hell with Spain!" Was the headline for what event?
What is the Sinking of the Maine?
This extended the Monroe Doctrine and America's responsibility to use military power protect the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Daily Double
Name a muckraker with their area of raking a muck
They helped during WWI, by volunteering as telephone operators and drivers, and filled some jobs during the war.
Who are women?
Conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The United States paid $20 million dollars at the end of the Spanish American War to Spain, which resulted in a 3 year war with who?
What is the Philippines?
A diplomatic effort by the United States to maintain trade influence in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This Black civil rights activist was instrumental in the founding of both the Niagara Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The law set stiff punishments, such as 20 years in prison, for acts of interference for anyone who obstructed the military draft or for speaking against the government during WWI.
What are the Espionage & Sedition Acts? Just Espionage or Sedition acceptable
These were the result, in some major cities, due to the Great Migration and the soldiers returning home from WWI.
What are race riots or Red Summer 1919?
Name 2 reasons pro-imperialist argued to support their ideas.
What are military expansion, economic growth (cheap materials, new markets), to be on par with European powers, and manifest destiny
This granted the US the ability to build the Panama Canal after Panama gained independence.
What is the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
List the Progressive Amendments.
What are 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th Amendments?
16th Amendment (1913) gave Congress the power to impose an income tax
17th Amendment (1913) required the direct election of senators
18th Amendment (1919) banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
19th amendment (1920) gave women the right to vote
This was an agreement by Germany to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew.
What is the Sussex Pledge?
Due to Article X the US never joined, even though the ideas for this came from President Wilson.
What is the League of Nations?