Unit 7 Vocab Part One (late 1800s-1930s)

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, De Lôme Letter

Question 4

Teller Amendment

Answer 4

promised independence to Cuba, justified US war effort

Question 5

Platt Amendment

Answer 5

seven conditions to get US troops out of Cuba

Question 6

Schenck v US

Answer 6

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

Question 7

League of Nations

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Open Door Policy

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Fourteen Points

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Big Stick Diplomacy

Answer 10

Roosevelt, promoted US interests peacefully but threatened with “big stick”

Question 11

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 11

Taft, strengthen US ties promoting US trade, less militaristic, etc.

Question 12

The “lost generation”

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 13

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

Question 14

National Origins Act

Answer 14

quotas to restrict flow of EU immigrants

Question 15

War Industries Board

Answer 15

coordinated purchase of war supplies for WW1

Question 16

Selective Service Act

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Dawes Plan

Answer 17

Ease financial crisis in EU

Question 18

Arabic Pledge, Sussex Pledge

Answer 18

no sinking of passenger/merchant ships w/o warning

Question 19

Pacho Villa

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Lusitania

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 23

black artistic and literary creativity in Harlem district of Manhattan

Question 24

Flappers

Answer 24

challenged views of women, flaunted sexuality in public

Question 25

Palmer Raids

Answer 25

disregarded basic civil liberties, against suspected communists/anarchists

Question 26

1920s fundmentalism

Answer 26

liberal inter. of Bible

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