Chapter 21 - An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Question 1

Alfred Mahan

Answer 1

navy admiral who urged U.S. naval development

Question 2

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 2

Hawaiian queen who was critical of treaties ceding power to U.S. economic interests

Question 3

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 3

Filipino revolutionary

Question 4

Porfirio Diaz

Answer 4

Mexican president

Question 5

Herbert Hoover

Answer 5

engineer who became the 31st president

Question 6

Alice Paul

Answer 6

suffragist, feminist, women’s rights activist

Question 7

American exceptionalism

Answer 7

the idea that the United States had a unique destiny to foster democracy and civilization

Question 8

“Remember the Maine”

Answer 8

chant used to encourage the war between Spain and the U.S. after the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor

Question 9

Teller Amendment

Answer 9

assured the public that the U.S. would uphold democracy abroad and at home

Question 10

Insular Cases

Answer 10

set of Supreme Court rulings declaring that the U.S. Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in acquired territories

Question 11

Platt Amendment

Answer 11

amendment to Cuban constitution that blocked Cuba from making treaties with any country except the U.S. and gave the U.S. the right to intervene with Cuban affairs

Question 12

open door policy

Answer 12

claim put forth by Secretary of State John Hay that all nations seeking to do business with China should have equal trade access

Question 13

Root-Takahira Agreement

Answer 13

1908 agreement between U.S. and Japan confirming principles of free oceanic commerce and recognizing Japan’s authority over Manchuria

Question 14

Panama Canal

Answer 14

canal across the Isthmus of Panama that connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans while giving the U.S. a commanding position in the Western Hemisphere

Question 15

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 15

1904 assertion by Roosevelt that the U.S. would act as a “policeman” in the Caribbean region

Question 16

Lusitania

Answer 16

passenger ship sunk by u-boats in WWI

Question 17

Zimmermann telegram

Answer 17

1917 intercepted dispatch in which the German foreign secretary urged Mexico to join the Central Powers, promising to help Mexico recover southwestern U.S. territories should the U.S. join the war

Question 18

War Industries Board

Answer 18

federal board established in 1917 to direct military production

Question 19

National War Labor Board

Answer 19

federal agency founded in 1918 that established an eight-hour day for war workers, endorsed equal pay for women, and supported workers’ right to organize

Question 20

Committee on Public Information

Answer 20

organization set up by Woodrow Wilson to increase support for America’s participation in WWI

Question 21

Four-Minute Men

Answer 21

volunteers who delivered short prowar speeches at movie theaters

Question 22

Sedition Act of 1918

Answer 22

wartime law that prohibited any words or behavior that might promote resistance to the U.S. or help in the cause of its enemies

Question 23

Great Migration

Answer 23

migration of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North during and after WWI

Question 24

National Women’s Party

Answer 24

political party founded in 1916 that fought for an equal rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Question 25

Fourteen Points

Answer 25

principles of a new world order proposed by Wilson as a basis for peace negotiations at Versailles

Question 26

League of Nations

Answer 26

international organization formed after WWI that brought together world governments to prevent future hostilities

Question 27

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 27

1919 treaty that ended WWI