U.S. History Unit 3 Flashcards
- Extractive economy
Imperial country takes raw materials from their colonies
- Imperialism
The policy by which strong nations extend their political, military,and economic control over weaker territories
- Alfred T Mahan
A military historian and an officer in the US Navy
- Fredrick Turner
A historian who used the frontier for resources
- Mathew Perry
Sailed a fleet of American warships into present day Tokyo bay , Japan
- Queen Lilioukalani
Hawaiian nationalist who abolished the constitution that gave power to whites
- Jose Marti
Cuban patriot who launched war for independence from Spain.
- Yellow press
Newspapers that featured a comic called the yellow kid
- Jingoism
Aggressive nationalism
- George Dewey
Commodore who fought war against Spanish. He quickly won
- Rough riders
Rugged westerners and upper class easterners created by Theodore Roosevelt
- Treaty of Paris
Ended war between Spain and US. Gave US control of Cuba Puerto Rico and Guam
- Insurrection
Another name for rebellion
- Guerilla warfare
Non traditional fighting technique where enemies are flanked secretly
- William Howard Taft
Future president of US and past president of Philippines
- Spheres of influence
.a region dominated and controlled by an outside power
- Boxer rebellion
Violence started by members of a secret society in China, which prompted the governments of Europe and America to send troops to squash the rebellion
- Open door policy
American statement that the government did not want colonies in China but favored free trade there
- Gentlemens Agreement
Pact between the United States and Japan to end segregation of Asian children in san fransico public schools. Japan agreed to limit immigration to US
- Great white fleet
Battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a good will cruise around the world
- Foraker Act
Law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico
- Platt Amendment
Set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and granting the US the right to intervene to keep peace in Cuba
- “Big stick” diplomacy
Theodore Roosevelt policy of creating and using when necessary a strong military to achieve Americas goal
- Panama Canal
Human made water way linking the Atlantic to the pacific across the isthmus of Panama
- Roosevelt Corolly
Theodore Roosevelts reassertion of the Monroe doctrine to keep the western hemisphere free from European intervention
- Dollar diplomacy
President tafts policy of expanding American investments abroad
- Moral diplomacy
Woodrow Wilsons statement that the US will not use force to assert influence in the world, but to promote human rights
- Francisco “Pancho” Villa
top military leader of the Mexican Revolution
- Militarism
Glorification of the military
- Francis Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria este and Austria Hungary
- Western front
Battle front between the allies and central powers in Western Europe during world war 1
- Casualty
Soldiers killed, wounded and missing
- Contraband
Supplies captured from an enemy during war time
- U-boat
German submarine
- Lusitania
British passenger liner sunk by a German u-boat during ww1
- Zimmerman note
Telegram written by German foreign minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the US during ww1
- Selective service act
Act passed by congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service
- Bernard Baruch
Influential Wall Street broker who reported directly to the president
- Committee on public information (CPI)
Educate the public about the causes and nature of the war
- George Creel
Director of CPI
- Conscientious objector
A group who resisted the draft by means of religious or moral beliefs
- Espionage act
Allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers magazines or printed materials
- Great migration
Movement of blacks from rural south to industrial north
- Convoy
Groups of merchant ships sailed together, protected by warships
- Vladimir Lenin
Staged revolution and gained control of Russia
- John J. Pershing
Commander of American forces in Europe
- Fourteen points
Americas war aims
- Self determination
Right of people to choose their own form of government
- League of Nations
A group of nations that secured mutual guru tees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike
- Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator and republican foreign policy expert
- Reparations
Payment for war damages
- Irreconcilables
Isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending ww1 that had a League of Nations folded into it
- Reservationists
A group of senators, led by Henry Cabot lodge, who opposed the treaty of Versailles, to end ww1, unless specific changes were included
- Influenza
Flu virus
- Inflation
Rising prices
- Red scare
Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
- Palmer raids
The series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer against suspected radicals and communists
- Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian immigrants and anarchists who killed people during a factory shooting
- Warren G. Harding
Rejected by the League. Republican candidate from Ohio
- Creditor Nation
Country which is owed more money by other nations than it owes other countries
- Henry Ford
Creator of the model-T
- Mass Production
Production of goods in large numbers though the use of machines and assembly lines
- Scientific Management
Approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, money and effort.
- Assembly Line
Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation until it is finished
- Consumer Revolution
Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after world war 1
- Installment Buying
Method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment, then pays off the rest in regularly monthly payments
- Bull Market
Period of rising stock prices
- Buying on Margin
System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest
- Andrew Mellon
Secretary of treasure appointed by warren g Harding
- Herbert Hoover
31st president
- Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding administration scandal in which the interior secretary leased government oil reserves to private oilmen for bribes
- Calvin Coolidge
30th president
- Dawes Plan
US loan e money to Germany so that they could pay off war debts
- Kellog-Briand Pact
1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
- Modernism
Artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions
- Fundamentalism
Movement or attitude stressing st it and literal adherence to a set of basic principles
- Scopes Trial
1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching darwins theory of evolution
- Clarence Darrow
American lawyer who led the American civil liberties union
- Quota System
Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries
- Ku Klux Klan
Organization that promotes hatred towards specific ethnic and religious group
- Prohibition
The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol
- 17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote
- Volstead Act
Law enacted by congress to enforce the 18th amendment
- Bootlegger
One who sells illegal alcohol
- The Jazz Singer
First movie with sound synchronized to the action
- Babe Ruth
Face of American baseball
- Charles Lindenburg
American aviator who made the first solo flight
- Flapper
Young woman from the 20’s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dressing
- Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Lost Generation
Term for American writers of the 20’s marked by disillusion with ww1 and a search for sense of meaning
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
American short story author
- Ernest Hemmingway
American novelist and short story writer
- Marcus Garvey
Proponent of the black nationalism and pan-africanism movement
- Jazz
Genre of music that originated from black communities during late 19th and early 20th century
- Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter and considered one of the most influential jazz artists of all time
- Bessie smith
Jazz vocalist who was given the name “empress of the blues”
- Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s
- Claude McKay
Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet best known for his novels and poems, including “If We Must Die,” which contributed to the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
- Zora Neal Hurston
Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’
