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Key Period 7a Flashcards

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  1. Anglo-Saxonism and the White Man’s Burden
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  • Used for justification of imperialism
  • An obligation to lesser nations
  • Effective advertisement prompted this spread
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  1. Treaty of Kanagawa
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  • 1854 U.S Commodore Mathew Perry

- Usage of military forces in allowing American ships to refuel at two ports in Japan

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  1. Open Door Policy
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  • U.S Secretary of State John Hay

- All nations seeking to do business in China should have equal trade access

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  1. Annexation of Hawaii
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  • Forced abdication of Hawaii’s last monarch Lili oukalani

- 1898 by the committee of safety

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  1. U.S.S Maine
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  • Sent to Cuba to protect American interests

- Mysteriously explodes found to be an accident

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  1. Yellow Journalism
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  • Fake articles mainly for the companies benefit in sales

- Preferred for its wild stories and entertainment

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  1. Anti-imperialist League
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  • Carnegie/Twain/Gompers
  • Control over land far away with large populations
  • Strain on American resources harming business and labor
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  1. Teller Amendment
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  • The U.S would give Cuba it’s freedom after defeating Spain
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  1. Emilio Aguinaldo
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  • Philippine American War
  • Philippine War
  • Used guerrilla warfare to aiding America in the Spanish American war
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  1. Rough Riders
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  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Had mixed type of people with wide variety of abilities
  • In battle of San Juan Hill
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  1. Jingoism
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  • Extreme nationalism/patriotism
  • Result of Spanish American war
    Ex. Stripes and Stars forever (John Phillip Sousa)
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  1. Platt Amendment
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  • Ensure U.S envoy enemy in Cuban affairs

Ex. Set up naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

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  1. Insular Cases
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  • SCOTUS cases

- Concern status of territory acquired after the Spanish American war

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  1. Big Stick Policy
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  • By Roosevelt

- Threatening style to benefit American imperialism

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  1. Panama Canal
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  • A canal connecting trade between the Atlantic and pacific oceans
  • Built by U.S army gave naval base quick access to the pacific provided commanding position in Western Hemisphere
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  1. Roosevelt Corollary
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  • U.S as “policemen” in Caribbean region and intervene in the affairs of nations guilty of “wrong doing or impotence” In order to protect U.S interest in Latin America
  • Extension of Monroe Doctrine
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  1. Great White Fleet
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  • Roosevelt’s fleet of naval ships
  • Made from steel and painted white
  • Caused fear in other countries
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  1. Gentlemen’s Agreement
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  • During the fear of “Yellow Peril”

- Agreement with China to allow schooling for Chinese in America but no more immigration

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  1. Sussex Ultimatum
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  • Promise made by Germany to the US that Germany would warn if they torpedo marine ships but not submarines
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  1. Zimmerman Telegram
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  • Dispatch From Zimmerman urged Mexico to join central powers if U.S joined the Army
  • Published by American Newspaper
  • Outraged American public
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  1. Jeanette Rankin
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  • First US Congress woman

- Against the America joining the war

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  1. Committee On Public Information
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  • By Woodrow Wilson
  • increase support for American participation. In the war
  • National propaganda machine helped create a political climate intolerant of dissent
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  1. Espionage Act and Sedition Act
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  • Prosecution of “spies”
  • Eugene v. Debs
  • Wartime law that prohibited behavior resistant to the U.S or help its enemies
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  1. Scheneck v. United States
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  • Limitation of free speech is limited when posing “clear present danger”
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  1. Industrial Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)
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  • Umbrella union and radical political group
  • Dedicated group of unskilled workers opposed of capitalism
  • Advocated direct action by workers (sabotage / strike)
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  1. National War Labor Board
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  • Federal agency founded, established 8 hour day for workers

- endorsed equal pay for women supported workers rights to unionize

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  1. Food Administration
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  • Administration of food for US allies overseas

- Stabilizing the exotic price of the American market

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  1. Fourteen Points
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  • New world order by Wilson
  • Basis for peace negotiation at Versailles
  • Open diplomacy, freedom of seas, free trade, territorial integrity, arms reduction, national slept determination, creation of League of Nations
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  1. Treaty of Versailles
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  • Ended WWI
  • Redrew map of the world, assigned Germany sole responsibility
  • Long term impact around globe
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  1. Irreconcilable
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  • Small group of senators against the passing of the treaty of Versailles
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  1. Article X and the League of Nations
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- International organization of world governments to prevent future hostility, aftermath of WWI

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  1. The Dawes Plan
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  • Law gave native Americans severally by dividing reservations and homestead
  • Disaster for natives
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  1. Washington Disarmament Conference
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  • All naval powers invited except Russia

- Declares pause to construction of battleships

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  1. Kellogg-Briand Pact
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  • General treaty for reunification of war

- Agreement that countries would not use war to solve conflict

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  1. Ohio Gang
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  • Happens by G. Harding
  • Similar to spoils system
  • Harding does not recognize as corrupt
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  1. Teapot Dome Scandal
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  • Inferior secretary AlbertFall accepted bribe for leading oil reserves
  • Part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Hardings presidency
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  1. Red Scare
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  • Anticommunist hysteria after WWI

- Led to government raids on alleged subversives and suppression of civil liberties

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  1. Palmer Raids
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  • Led by General A. Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations

- Federal agents arrested citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel

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  1. Sacco and Vanzetti
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  • Accused blatantly for murder (Italian)

- Found guilty but one was innocent

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  1. KKK (1920)
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  • New KKK more followers and not secretive

- Persecution of immigrants due to red scare

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  1. Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Act
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- Law limit to immigration especially from south and Eastern Europe

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  1. Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act
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  1. Speakeasies
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  1. Scopes “Monkey Trial”
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  • Trial of John scopes for violating his states ban on teaching evolution
  • Created nationwide media frenzy, showdown between urban and rural values
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  1. Henry Ford’s Model T
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  • A cheaper and more affordable model of car

- Revolutionized the standard living of the middle class and rich

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  1. Charles Lindbergh
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  1. Jazz Age
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  • Unique American music form developed in New Orleans

- Musicians developed an ensemble improvised style

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Writter of The Great Gatsby
  • Coined the Jazz age
  • Model the young sociable class of 1920
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  1. Flappers
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  • Young women of 1920 defined conventional standards

- Short skirts, makeup, freely spending money earned latest fashion dancing to jazz flaunt earring liberated lifestyle

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  1. The Jazz Singer
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  1. The Lost Generation
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  • By writer Gertrude Stein to refer to young artist and writers who suffered WWI
  • Felt alienated from Americas mass culture society
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  1. Great Migration
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  • Migration of African Americans from rural south to industrial cities of north during and after WWI
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  1. Marcus Garvey and United Negro Improvement Agency
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  1. Harlem Renaissance
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  • A flourishing of African American artists writers and intellectuals and social leaders in Harlem
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  1. Langston Hughes
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  1. Zoe’s Neale Hurston
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  1. The Influence of Sea Power on History
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  • Strong navel power between nations

- The strongest navy is known to be the strongest nation

AP US History Semester #2 (3 decks)

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