Ch 20: Imperialism
The belief that white English-speaking people were the most superior
What is Anglo-Saxonism?
The acronym NAWSA stands for…
What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
This treaty concluded the first World War and forced Germany to pay massive reparations and concede territory.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
US economic response to not needing international imports due to overproduction
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
International agreement where many nations signed against started war as part of national politics, but failed due to lack of enforcement
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The first US Volunteer Calvary
Who are the Rough Riders?
This activist, in contrast to Booker T. Washington, encouraged all African Americans to fight for their civil rights; in 1905 held a convention with supporters at the Niagara Movement.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
Employers adopted this form of capitalism that offered improved working conditions to try and solve labor unrest.
What is welfare capitalism?
This was a derogatory term insulting farmers moving to the west during the Dust Bowl
Who are the Okies?
Redistribution of debt caused by Germany’s overwhelmingly high debt due to WW1
What is Circular Debt?
The amendment that gave the United States control over Cuba
What is the Platt Amendment?
Enacted by President Roosevelt in an effort to regulate the railroad industry but was met with limited success.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
A set of provisions proposed by Wilson that tried to delineate principles for peace following the first World War.
What is the Fourteen Points?
A four-day closure of all banks enacted by FDR to prevent panic withdrawals
What is the Bank Holiday?
The extension of the Monroe Doctrine emphasizing Europe’s non-intervention in all of the Americas
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
The uprising that overthrew US-backed dictatorship
What is the Cuban Revolt?
This amendment was widely supported by temperance advocates and became ratified by most states in 1920.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This term described the migration of African Americans from the South to the industrialized cities of the North.
What is the Great Migration?
Pop culture during the Great Depression were mostly forms of this
What is escapism?
This massive secret US research program developed the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
The policy enacted by the US regarding trade in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
An advocate of eugenics, this nativist admonished against the dangers of immigration in his book The Passing of the Great Race (1916).
Who is Madison Grant?
The name for Japanese immigrants in the Americas during the 1900s.
What is Issei?
Group of professionals whom FDR sought out for advice
Who is the “Brain Trust”?
What was the code language used in the United States during war time?