Supreme Court & Segregation
This 1896 case legalized racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Frances Willard led this group that fought for prohibition and women's rights
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
Newspapers that sensationalized events to sell copies and push war sentiment were called this
What is the Yellow Press?
After the Spanish-American War, the US acquired these three territories
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
This quick 1898 conflict with Spain marked the US's entry into empire-building
What is the Spanish-American War?
This phrase became the legal justification for Jim Crow laws
What is separate but equal?
The WCTU combined campaigns for moral reform with this political right
What is women's suffrage?
This 1898 slogan encouraged Americans to blame Spain for the USS Maine explosion
What is "Remember the Maine"?
This policy guaranteed the US equal trading rights in China without requiring colonies
What is Open Door Policy?
The explosion of this ship in Havana Harbor was a major pretext for war with Spain
What is the USS Maine?
These Supreme Court decisions said US constitutional rights did not automatically apply to new territories like Puerto Rico
What are the Insular Cases?
This social movement argued that society had a moral obligation to improve conditions for women and children
What is progressive reform/social reform
The Yellow Press was led by William Randolph Hearst and this other famous publisher
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
What is Cuba?
US Imperialism after 1898 often involved controlling territories without fully granting these
What are constitutional rights?
The Plessy ruling primarily affected this aspect of daily life in the South
What is public segregation in schools, transportation, and facilities?
WCTU activists often supported laws restricting this substance
What is alcohol?
The exaggeration and hype by these newspapers helped push the US into this war
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1908 agreement ensured that the US and Japan respected each other's Pacific holdings and maintained trade peace
What is the Root-Takahira Agreement?
American war fever is 1898 was fueled by sensationalized newspaper coverage, also known as this type of press
What is the Yellow Press?
The legal system used this term to give the appearance of fairness while maintaining racial inequality
What is "separate but equal"?
Frances Willard transformed the WCTU into a nationwide organization by promoting this alongside prohibition
What is education and civic activism?
Sensational reporting like the Yellow Press often encouraged this type of public sentiment towards foreign countries
What is jingoism / war fever?
This belief held that the US had a special mission to spread democracy and liberty worldwide
The US claimed this type of mission justified spreading liberty, even using military force overseas
What is spreading democracy / American exceptionalism?