Period 7: PART 1 - Progressive Era, WWI 1890-1945 Flashcards
Change in mindset from “survival of the fittest” (gilded age) TO –>
society is responsible for individuals
Upton Sinclar was the author of _____ which focused on nasty conditions of the meat industry
The Jungle
spoke out against Standard Oil Trust (rockefeller)
Ida Tarbell
photographer who showed the horrors of tenement housing
Jacob Riis
Booker T Washington VS. WEB Du Bois was based on:
racial inqeuality
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
WEB Du Bois
Why did America sought to imperialize? (1865-1914)
new markers, foregin trade, military superiority
The US bought what state
alaska
What happened in the Spanish American War
1898-1899
US took the phillipians from Spain and blockaded Cuba to push out Spain
officially ended the period of Spanish colonization in the Philippines and granted possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States
Treaty of Paris 1898
called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China.
Open Door Policy 1899
what policy attemped to stop japanese Imperialism in China
Dollar Dilpomacy
US foreign policy that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
What was the US orignal standpoint on WW1
neutrality.
US didn’t want to pick a side
What changed the US’s outlook on neutrality?
Sinking of the Lusitania with 100+ Americans on board
how did the US findout about the Zimmerman Telegram in 1917?
intercepted by Great Britain
What was Wooddrow Wilsons last straw before WW1?
Zimmerman Telegram
What did the Zimmerman Telegram say?
Germany asking Mexico to join an alliance against the US in exchange for territory lost in Mexican American War
California, Rio Grande Border, Nevada, Utah,
what required all males between ages 21-30 to register for the draft?
Selective Service Act SSA
Women took on male dominated jobs, but _______
returned home after the men came back from war
