Unit 7 Vocab Part 1

Question 1

Yellow journalism

Answer 1

exaggerated events, Hearst and Pulitzer fueled warfare + cause of Spanish-American war
ex: De Lome Letter, increased tension

Question 2

1898 Treaty of Paris

Answer 2

ended Spanish-American war with negotiation of land

Question 3

Causes of Spanish-American War

Answer 3

-“Yellow journalism,” sinking of USS Maine (Spain was blamed), Teller Amendment (justified war effort), De Lôme Letter

Question 4

Insular Cases

Answer 4

established by SC that constit. rights do not automatically extend to land acquired in Spanish-American War

Question 5

Teller Amendment

Answer 5

promised independence to Cuba, justified US war effort

Question 6

Platt Amendment

Answer 6

seven conditions to get US troops out of Cuba

Question 7

Schenck v US

Answer 7

Espionage Act upheld, prevented use of mail to intervene w/ war efforts
Schenck mailed leaflets opposing draft, couldn’t continue

Question 8

League of Nations

Answer 8

peacekeeping organization est. after WW1, dispute without war, Wilson’s ideas BUT US never joined

Question 9

Open Door Policy

Answer 9

John Hay, ALL nations have equal opp. to any Chinese port open to trade
-no China consent, imperialism

Question 10

Fourteen Points

Answer 10

Wilson prin. for world peace: open diplomacy, freedom of seas, creation of organization (later League of Nations), self-determination

Question 11

Big Stick Diplomacy

Answer 11

Roosevelt, promoted US interests

peaceful but threatened with “big stick”

Question 12

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 12

Taft, strengthen US ties

promoting US trade, less militaristic, foreign investment, private fin. investment

Question 13

Missionary Diplomacy

Answer 13

Wilson, America respon. to spread its institutions and values to far corners of globe

Question 14

Panama Canal

Answer 14

connects Atlantic to Pacific ocean, key channel for international trade

Question 15

The “lost generation”

Answer 15

didn’t like US society anymore in 1920s, caused people such as Sinclair Lewis/ F. Scott to move to EU

Question 16

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 16

sixty-two nations pledged to not use war as instrument of policy
-if US, Germany or France broke they wouldn’t get benefits

Question 17

National Origins Act

Answer 17

quotas to restrict flow of EU immigrants

Question 18

Creel Committee

Answer 18

aimed to sell America and world on Wilson’s war goals

Question 19

War Industries Board

Answer 19

coordinated purchase of war supplies for WW1:

Question 20

Selective Service Act

Answer 20

made every adult male register for the draft at age of 18, helped US entry into WW1

Question 21

Dawes Plan

Answer 21

Ease financial crisis in EU

Question 22

Arabic Pledge, Sussex Pledge

Answer 22

no sinking of passenger/merchant ships w/o warning

Question 23

Pacho Villa

Answer 23

killed many Americans in Mexico, US sent John Pershing to capture but he never did

Question 24

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 24

added to Monroe Doctrine, obstructed EU military intervention, assumed US right to “an international police power”

Question 25

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 25

Germany sec Zimmerman asked Mexico to attack US, rep. direct threat, hastened US entry into WW1

Question 26

Lusitania

Answer 26

sunk by German u-boat, caused US to enter WW1 against Germans

Question 27

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 27

black artistic and literary creativity in Harlem district of Manhattan

Question 28

Flappers

Answer 28

challenged views of women, flaunted sexuality in public

Question 29

Palmer Raids

Answer 29

disregarded basic civil liberties, against suspected communists/anarchists

Question 30

1920s fundmentalism

Answer 30

liberal inter. of Bible

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes convicted of teaching evolution, shows conflict in fundamentalism/modernism