IMPERIALISM
This war gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Most Americans in 1914 wanted to do this.
What is stay out of the war?
This movement celebrated Black culture, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
President Hoover mainly helped these groups rather than individuals.
What are businesses and banks?
This program sent supplies to Allied nations before the U.S. entered the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
This idea helped push America toward imperialism after 1890.
What is the closing of the frontier?
Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare was partly in response to this British action.
What is the British naval blockade?
This famous trial showed conflict between religion and science.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The “Hundred Days” refers to this period.
What are the first months of FDR’s presidency?
Japanese Americans were interned mainly because of this.
What are fear and prejudice?
This politician opposed annexing the Philippines and argued for self-determination. (HINT: they were a part of the Populist Party)
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Wilson won reelection in 1916 using this slogan/theme.
What is “He kept us out of war”?
Buying goods now and paying later was called this.
What is buying on credit / installment plans?
The WPA was mainly this kind of New Deal program.
What is relief?
African Americans promoted victory abroad and equality at home with this slogan.
What is Double V?
This poem encouraged imperialism and the duty to civilize others.
What is “The White Man’s Burden”?
This telegram helped bring the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Buying stock with borrowed money was called this.
What is buying on margin?
Huey Long proposed this plan to tax the rich and help families.
What is Share Our Wealth?
This agency rationed goods and controlled inflation.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
This president is associated with intervention in Latin America with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Mexico due to "Moral Diplomacy".
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
These wartime laws limited speech and punished dissent.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This group faced heavy immigration restrictions in the 1920s.
Who are Southern and Eastern Europeans?
FDR aimed to make the Supreme Court more favorable to his New Deal programs by doing this.
What is court-packing?
One reason given for dropping the atomic bomb was to avoid this.
What is a costly invasion of Japan?