Studied by 2 peopleWhat president annexed Hawaii?
President McKinley
Who purchased Alaska?
Secretary of State William Seward
Who did Sec. of State William Seward purchase Alaska from?
Russia
What did skeptics call William Seward's purchase?
"Seward's Icebox"
"Seward's Folly"
Pan-American Conference
The goal was to improve economic and political relations between the US and countries in Latin America
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
The British responded that the Monroe Doctrine had no validity as international law
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute Result
Gave notice that the Monroe Doctrine would assert US power in the Western Hemisphere
Open Door Policy
A policy in which all nations would have equal trading and development rights throughout all of China
What country wanted independence from Spain?
Cuba
What did the US press use to create anti-Spanish feelings in the US?
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism
Sensationalism of Newspapers
What battleship was mysteriously blown up in the Havana Harbor, killing 260 Americans?
U.S.S. Maine
When the U.S.S. Maine blew up, who did the US newspapers blame?
Spain
Even though President McKinley was against war, what happened?
McKinley gave in to public pressure
Teller Amendment
The US had no intention of exercising control over Cuba and the people of Cuba would adopt their own government after peace was restored
What was another name for the Spanish American War?
The Splendid Little War
Battle of San Juan Hill
This is the battle where Teddy Roosevelt made a name for himself when he charged up the San Juan Hill with a group called the Rough Riders
What ended the Spanish-American War?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
US gained Guam, Puerto Rico, Wake Island, and the Philippines
Platt Amendment
Gave the US a naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
What were the results of the Spanish American War?
US had acquired an EMPIRE
Mahan's Thesis
US Navy Officer, Alfred Mahan, concluded that a country's greatness was due to its Navy and its control of the seas.
What did Mahan elaborate on?
Command of the seas was a requirement for great power status
What was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy?
Big Stick Diplomacy - based on military and strength
What was Teddy Roosevelt's saying?
"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Gave the US complete rights to construct, control, and maintain a canal with the stipulation the canal would be neutral
Hay-Buana-Varilla Treaty
US would receive the rights to the canal zone and would extend 5 miles on either side of the route. The US would also have to guarantee the neutrality terms of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty would be honored
What disease did workers overcome when building the canal?
Yellow Fever
Malaria
Insular Cases
Supreme Court cases on how to govern the new territories gained as a result of the Spanish American War
Roosevelt Corollary on the Monroe Doctrine
US had the right to intervene itself in domestic affairs of its neighbors if those neighbors proved to be unable to protect US investment
What was the first application of Roosevelt's Corollary?
Dominican Republic
Treaty of Portsmouth
Signaled the emergence of Japan as a world power
What award was Roosevelt award for his peace work?
Noble Peace Prize
What was William Howard Taft's foreign policy?
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
Goal was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American business and commercial interests
Lodge Corollary
Extended the Monroe Doctrine to non-European nations as well as foreign companies
Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy?
Moral Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Foreign policy to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace
Grange
national, secret, farm organization to protect farmers from capitalistic monopoly
Who's idea was single tax?
Henry George
Single Tax
Believed to raise wages, increase earnings of capital, abolish poverty, give employment, and relieve other economic ills through a massive redistribution of wealth
Omaha Convention
A meeting of people who formed the People's or Populist Party
What were most Progressives?
Educated, affluent, middle-class men and women
Muckrakers
American journalists, novelists, and critics who attempted to expose the negative impact of industrialism including the abuses of business and corruption in politics
Municipal Progressives
A movement started in the cities with the primary goal being to overthrow "boss rule"
Who were the progressive presidents?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Who became the nation's first environmental president?
Teddy Roosevelt
What president pushed the 16th amendment and lowered tariffs?
William Howard Taft
What was the 16th amendment?
Income Tax
What president were the 17th and 18th amendments under?
Woodrow Wilson
What was the 17th amendment?
Direct election of senators
What was the 18th amendment?
Prohibition of alcohol
What state was the first to allow women the right to vote?
Wyoming
What was first the national party to have a plank supporting women's suffrage?
Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party
What was Lochner v. New York?
Lochner was convicted under NY law prohibiting bakery employees form working more than 10 hours per day
What was the decision in Lochner v. New York?
The Court overturned his conviction by rejecting the argument that the law was necessary to protect the health of bakers
From its involvement in WWI, the US would emerge as the?
Leading country in the world
What would forever change the course of US history?
WWI and the peace treaty
What would dominate the American political agenda through 20th century?
Foreign Policy
With the outbreak of the Great War (WWI), President Wilson issued a what?
Proclamation of Neutrality
What did the sinking of the Lusitania fuel?
Tensions between the US and Germany and helped tilt American public opinion in favor of joining the Allies
Where did US purchase the Virgin Islands from?
Denmark
What did the Zimmerman Note propose?
A German-Mexican alliance and promised Mexico New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona if Germany won
American Expeditionary Force
US forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing
What was the most important wartime agency?
Committee of Public Information
Who headed the Committee on Public Information?
George Creel
Committee on Public Information
Massive propaganda campaign created support for the Allied cause and depicted the Germans as vicious beasts and barbaric Huns
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Put together to protect the US
Debs v. US
The Supreme Court again using the "clear and present danger" test rules that if a speech had a bad tendency, the speech was illegal
Woodrow Wilson's Peace Treaty?
14 Points
League of Nations
Settle all disputes and avert war
Treaty of Versailles dealt with who and did what?
Forced Germany to pay war reparations
Washington Naval Conference
Called to discuss Japan's activity on the Pacific
Dawes Plan
A more manageable plan proposed by the US for Germany to pay its war reparations
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Called for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy (outlawed war except in cases of self-defense)
Young Plan
Revised the Dawes Plan by scaling down the amount of reparations Germany owed
The Roaring Twenties marked by significant social changes and upheavals that made it a schizophrenic time period which was part what?
Liberal, Conservative, Radical, and Reactionary
Volstead Act
Enforced the 18th amendment
Red Scare
Resulted in the formation of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
Who won the Election of 1920?
Warren G. Harding
What was Harding's slogan?
"Return to normalcy" - going back to the time period before Progressivism and WWI when business was dominate and society was less complex
Who became president when Harding died?
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge was devoted to what?
Laissex Faire Economics
Harding's Scandals that came to light after he died?
Teapot Dome
Veterans Bureau
KKK
Hatred for African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and most immigrants especially from Southern and Eastern Europe
Immigration Act
Discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans
Scopes Monkey Trial
Teaching Evolution
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Xenophobia was prevalent
Flappers appearance?
Short hair, short skirt, compressed silhouette, turned-down hose, powdered knees
Flappers
A rebel compared to the Gibson Girl = opposed to conventional styles = offended the older generation
Lost Generation
Intellectuals, Poets, Artists, and Writers
Fads and Crazes of the 1920s
Flagpole Sitting
X-Word Puzzles
Dance Marathons
Mahjong
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