Foreign Policy
The policy that called for free access to China for investment and commercial interests is better known by what name?
Open Door Policy (John Hay)
Which freedom was restricted during World War I, out of fear of political radicalism?
freedom of speech
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, what technology allowed journalists to expose the realities of child labor in a way that wasn't possible before?
Photography
What is the name for the movement of 400,000 African Americans from the South to the North during and after WWI?
Great Migration
Which Supreme Court cases declared that the US Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in acquired territories?
Insular cases
Which outlaw did we send troops to Mexico to capture after he had killed 16 Americans in New Mexico?
Which law prohibited any words or behavior that might promote resistance to the US, or help in the cause of its enemies?
Sedition Act of 1918
Journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty are also known by what term?
"muckrakers"
During the First World War, what drew many African Americans to northern cities?
jobs in factories (better wages)
In which document was the United States declared the "policeman" of the Western Hemisphere?
Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)
Though the United States was neutral at the start of World War I, our policies clearly favored which specific country?
Great Britain
The ideas of the Populist Party had much in common with which movement, also active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Progressive movement
Between 1900 and 1929, what pushed African Americans out of the South? (What were they trying to escape?)
Violence and limited opportunities
The United States was thought to have solidified its place as a world power following its occupation (and eventual takeover) of which country?
the Philippines
What was the Liberty Loan campaign was created to help finance?
Which military conflict made clear that the United States was now a country concerned with expanding its territory?
Spanish-American War
Though all American were granted the right to vote in 1920, several states in which part of the country had given women that right before then?
Midwest/Great Plains ("frontier")
Between the years 1890 and 1910, the US most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting commercial involvement in which two areas of the world?
Latin America and Eastern Asia
Woodrow Wilson refused to accept any amendments proposed by the Senate when it came to the 14 Points. Who was the most vocal "reservationist"?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Which Supreme Court case upheld the conviction of a socialist who was jailed for urging draftees to resist conscription?
Schenck v. United States
Even after the passage of the 19th amendment, how was the right to vote still limited for women in some places?
In most southern states, only white women could vote; many women could not afford poll taxes; married women were at the mercy of their husbands