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Imperialism, Progressivism, and WW1 Flashcards

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Why did the US intervene in Latin America?

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Wanted Spain out of Cuba

Monroe Doctrine-European involvement in the Western Hemisphere was seen as a threat to national security

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What were US motives for imperialism?

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1) Economic-help business
2) Poltical-gain power
3) Religious-spread Christianity
4) Exploratory-discover new land

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What was Yellow Journalism?

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Publications that exaggerate events to sell products

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Who were Hearst and Pulitzer?

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Heads of newspapers

Yellow journalists-sinking of USS Maine-public support of Spanish American War

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How did the Spanish-American War start?

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Monroe doctrine
Public opinions
Propaganda by Hearst and Pulitzer
Sinking of the USS Maine

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What were the effects of the Spanish-American War on Cuba?

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US became a protectorate of Cuba
Platt amendment added to Cuban constitution-limited Cuba’s rights to make treaties, US troops entitled to enter Cuba to maintain orders

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What were the effects of the Spanish-American War on the Phillippines?

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Became an American territory

Sparked Phillippine-American war

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What were the effects of the Spanish-American War on Puerto Rico?

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Incorporated into US territory

Become American citizens, could vote

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Who were the Rough Riders?

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Troop led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American war

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Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

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African American Calvary units that fought in the Spanish-American war

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Why did the Philippine-American war begin?

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Philippines wanted independence from America

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What was Big Stick Diplomacy?

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Policy by Teddy Roosevelt
Negotiate peacefully and threaten with a big stick (military powers)
Used in Panama Canal

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How did the US acquire the land needed to build the canal?

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The US naval powers surrounded the canal zone and took control of the operation

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What was life like for the canal workers?

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rough, hot, disease ridden, poor facilities and hygiene

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What were the goals of the Progressive Party?

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Better lives of the working class
Tried to bring attention and publicity to the conditions endured by the working class
Believed big business had a hand in political corruption
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Lewis Hines

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Expose the atrocities of child labor through photography

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Ida Tarbell

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Expose cutthroat business practices through writing

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Upton Sinclair

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Wrote “The Jungle” exposing the mean packing industries

Congress passed “Pure Food and Drug Act” and “Meat Inspection Act”

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William Hard

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Expose conditions endured by working class

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Why did the Christian Women’s Temperance Union support the Prohibition?

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Believed alcohol was the reason American standards were deteriorating
Husbands were spending more money on alcohol than on their family

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What was the outcome of the Prohibition?

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Organized crime
Speakeasies
Bootlegging

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Why did the US feel that women should not have the right to vote?

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Women belonged at home and their absence would have detrimental consequences
Take away jobs from men
Women did not that the knowledge or logic to make decisions about politics

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What did Alice Paul to do further her cause?

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Hunger strike

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What tactics did suffragists use to get the right to vote?

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Protest
Picketing
Marches
Hunger Strikes
Banners
Got arrested
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What were the causes of WW1?

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Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
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Triple Alliance

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Britain
France
Russia

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Triple Entente

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Germany
Italy
Austria-Hungary

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Why was the US an isolationist country?

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Wanted to remain neutral
Lots of new immigrants
Good for business-US made goods for all countries involved in the war

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Why did the US enter the WW1?

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Sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

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How were Americans expected to help at home?

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Wheatless Wednesdays
Meatless Mondays
Enroll in the military
Buy war bonds
Knit socks for soldiers
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Sedition Act of 1918

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Amendment passed by Pres. Wilson that said that anyone who went against the government in any way, shape, or form can and will be punished

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What was the outcome of WW1?

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Treaty of Versailles

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What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

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Wilson’s plan for postwar peace

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What was the Treaty of Versailles?

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Postwar treaty
War guilt was placed on Germany-loses colonies, pay $33 billion in reparations, limited army
League of Nations was formed

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What were the goals of the League of Nations?

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Equal votes
Respect
Long term peace
Reduce Arms
International Court

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