1776-1812
This is the foreign policy the United States adopted when war broke out between France and Great Britain in 1793.
What is the policy of neutrality?
Before the Civil War, the American economy was very divided. The South was primarily based on agriculture and farming while the North was based on industry and trade. Given the North won the Civil War and Slavery was abolished, the American economy shifted from ___________ to ________.
What is shifted from agrarian to industrial?
This led to the Cuban rebellion against Spanish rule.
What was Cuba demanded the establishment of a republic after years of Spanish rule?
This economic policy is one where the government does not get involved in the business cycle. The government does not regulate wages, hours, or anything dealing with business.
What is Laissez Faire?
Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy can be characterized by taking a moral approach and promoting democracy abroad. Name the foreign policy.
what is moral diplomacy?
The purchase of the Louisiana territory in 1803 signaled this new goal for US foreign policy.
What is a policy of expansion?
Mass media outlets such as Newspapers in the late 1800's often printed exaggerated stories meant to persuade the public. This was called
What is Yellow Journalism?
This is the reason the battles of the Spanish American War began in the Philippines instead of Cuba.
The Philippines was the largest remaining Spanish colony and there had been resistance brewing for quite some time.
This was the major threat of living in crowded tenements
Disease flourished
This is the reason American's were initially pleased with Woodrow Wilson's policy of neutrality at the start of WWI.
Americans believed staying neutral provided the country opportunities to recover from economic downturn.
The colonists boycotted English tea and ultimately dumped all tea from British ships into Boston harbor in response to this.
What is the tea act?
Approved on May 22, 1903, the ________________ was a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention. It permitted extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs for the enforcement of Cuban independence.
What was the Platt Amendment?
Chinese Nationalist wanted to restore national control by violently expelling foreigners from China in what was known as...
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
The purpose of this act was to reform the civil service system to ensure federal employees were receiving their position based on merit and not the spoils system.
What was the Pendleton Act?
In the Zimmermann note Germany promised Mexico this in exchange for Mexico's support during WWI.
What was the lost land of California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona?
This group felt Americans should separate from Britain because rule from 3,000 miles away was unacceptable. The British King could not possibly represent the colonists interests.
Who were the Patriots?
This Cuban national fled to America and begged the United States to intervene against Spain on behalf of Cuba.
Who was Jose Marti?
The United States supported Panama in a rebellion against this country in an effort to build an American owned canal across Panama.
Who was Colombia?
What do the Pullman Strike, Haymarket affair, and Homestead Strike have in common?
They were all marked by violence
Woodrow Wilson demanded that Germany stop unrestricted submarine warfare and broke off diplomatic ties with Germany after this event.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
After the Constitution was written and completed in 1787 it was sent to each of the states for this.
What is ratification?
This volunteer cavalry unit was led by Theodore Roosevelt and fought gallantly in Cuba against Spain at San Juan Hill.
Who were the Rough Riders?
This event provoked war between the United States and Mexico in the mid 1800's.
What was the annexation of Texas by the United States?
These 3 factors led to the rise of big business and monopolies in the 1900's.
1. lack of competition
2. social darwinism
3. a policy of laissez faire economics
Germany promised to spare passenger lives in future U - boat attacks in this
What is the Sussex Pledge?