Vocab
The right to vote in political elections
What is Suffrage
The main goal of the Women's movement
What is the right to vote
To incorporate or add (a country or other territory)
These Spanish-owned territories were given to the United States according to the Treaty
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam
Under traditional marriage laws, a woman automatically lost control of her property and money to this person as soon as she said "I do."
Her Husband
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is Imperialism
Suffragists often argued that women needed the right to vote so they could pass laws banning child labor and prohibiting this substance.
Alcohol (The Temperance Movement)
To make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it
Reform
There was a push for the United States to adopt imperialism for these reasons
What are economic depression and an influx of immigrants
Organized by Alice Paul, the "Silent Sentinels" made history in 1917 by becoming the first group to ever protest by picketing in front of this famous Washington, D.C. landmark.
The White House
Avoiding alcohol consumption of any kind
What is Temperance
This document was created at the Seneca Falls Convention
What is the Declaration of Sentiments
This group of people were against women fighting for their right to vote
Who are Anti-Suffragist
After fighting alongside U.S. forces against Spain, this revolutionary leader declared independence in 1898 and went on to lead guerrilla resistance against American control as the first President of the Philippines.
Emilio Aguinaldo
This country was at the middle of the Spanish American War from the beginning
What is Cuba
The authority of a state to govern itself or another state
What is Sovereignty
The Americanization movement included the creation of these, designed to erase Native American culture and replace it with white, American culture
Boarding Schools
This key world event slowed the suffragist movement and led to many women not participating in campaigning for their rights
What is WWI
This event sparked the Spanish American War
What is the USS Maine Explosion
This amendment made it so that Cuban land could not be transferred to any power other than the US, Cuba's rights to negotiate treaties was limited, and the US had complete control of Guantanamo Bay
What is the Platt Amendment
Under Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. supported this country´s 1903 revolution against Colombia in order to secure the rights to build a strategic interoceanic waterway. Stick Diplomacy was
Panama
Ida Tarbell's seminal 1904 investigative exposé meticulous detailed the unfair business practices and aggressive expansion of this corporate giant, leading directly to its Supreme Court-ordered antitrust breakup in 1911.
The Standard Oil Company
Acquired after the Spanish-American War, this Caribbean island was designated an unincorporated territory by the Supreme Court's Insular Cases, ruling that the Constitution did not automatically fully apply to its residents
Puerto Rico
Several congress members change their mind and decide to annex Hawaii for these reasons
What are fueling stations and military bases
With the ratification of this amendment women were able to vote in the United States
What is the 19th amendment