Chapter 20: Imperalism
This agricultural staple in Hawaii led to Americans going to the islands, eventually gaining control after a staged revolution resulted in Queen Liluokalani yielding her authority.
sugar
This Constitutional amendment was ratified, granting political rights to women throughout the nation, after some states granted women’s suffrage.
19th Amendment
An intercepted telegram that suggested Mexicans join forces with Germany against the Americans to regain their “lost provinces”
Zimmermann Telegraph
What were two of the factors that led to the Great Depression?
Lack of Diversification / Maldistribution of Wealth / Weak Banking System / Declining Exports
The Dawes Plan created a fragile system in which U.S. loans to Germany allowed reparations to Britain and France, who then repaid war debts to the United States. What was this system called?
Circular Loans
This American battleship was blown up in the Havana harbor; Americans assumed the Spanish sunk the ship, catalyzing the military preparations for the Spanish-American War
USS Maine
This notable muckraker is known for her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, exposing Rockefeller’s business practices in the industry.
Ida Tarbell
A “covenant” providing for an assembly of nations to meet regularly to debate means of resolving disputes and protecting the peace after WWI.
League of Nations
Which types of people received problems towards malnutrition and homelessness resulting in farmers being unemployed and in search of work?
The Okies
Japan attacking Pearl Harbor was influenced by multiple factors. What were the three major reasons that led Japan to launch this attack?
Expansion of Empire, Embargo, and U.S. Naval Fleet Expansion
This rebellion set Spanish forces against civilians; the American press framed the Spaniards as the ones committing this rebellion's atrocities
Cuban Revolt
A term for the relationships, some quietly romantic, between some educated women who shunned marriage, remained single to play the roles they envisioned, and lived with other women.
Boston Marriages
This group of young American authors generally shared a sentiment of disenchantment with the United States in face of the newly prosperous and consumer-driven era.
Lost Generation
By the spring of 1931, many Americans blamed President Herbert Hoover for the worsening economic crisis. As unemployment increased, thousands of people were forced to live on the outskirts of cities. What were these communities called?
Hoovervilles
In the mid 1930s, Congress passed a series of laws imposing an arms embargo on nations at war and later allowing the sale of goods only on a “cash and carry” basis. What were these laws called collectively?
Neutrality Acts
This policy, proposed by Secretary of State John Hay, allowed the U.S. to trade freely with China without fear of interference and without having to become militarily involved in the region.
Open Door
A great state-level reformer, under whose leadership Wisconsin progressives won approval of direct primaries, initiatives, and referendums (direct democracy)
Robert La Follette
This agency was created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchases of military supplies during WWI, supposedly providing the centralized regulation of the economy.
War Industries Board
The New Deal had transformed the federal government into a mediator amongst interest groups rather than trying to create a unified nation interest. This system, in which the government protected such powerful groups became known as what?
The "Broker State"
Which World War II program, initiated after Einstein warned the U.S. about German nuclear research, involved scientists experimenting with uranium and plutonium that became the world’s first atomic explosion in New Mexico?
Manhattan Project
A group of individuals in the U.S. Senate who resisted the acquisition of the Philippines with various motives ranging from moral standards to fear of "polluting" the American population
Anti-Imperialist League
The progressive program proposed by Woodrow Wilson to destroy monopolies, after which Wilson won the 1912 presidential campaign.
"New Freedom"
This business concept was proposed by Commerce Secretary and later President Herbert Hoover, envisioning a creation of national organizations of businessmen to stabilize and promote efficiency in production and marketing in particular industries.
Associationalism
In the mid 1930s, Dr.Francis proposed a plan granting 200 dollars worth of monthly pension to all Americans over the age of sixty on the conditions that they would retire and spend the full amount by the end of each month. Although Congress rejected the proposal, the public supported it and influenced the creation of which major piece of the New Deal?
The Townsend Plan
During World War II, what type of facility was created under President Roosevelt’s orders to forcibly move 10,000 people from their homes into isolated mountain or desert sites where some worked as agricultural laborers?
Relocation Centers