Vocab 1

Question 1

Wisconsin Idea

Answer 1

-Fosters public universities, contributions to the state offers advice about public universities contributions

Question 2

Nationalism

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belief that the people’s loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture or history //Because the whole war would never have happened if it hadn’t been for nationalism, and the desire to be “first’ in Europe (have the biggest guns, be the biggest country, be the most powerful country, have the most powerful Navy)

Question 3

Upton Sinclair

Answer 3

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.

Question 4

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 4

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, “Square Deal,” Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War

Question 5

Robert La Folette

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Governor of Wisconsin who promoted the principle of government by experts, advocated progressivism, and established a Legislative Reference Bureau to provide research, advice, and help in the drafting of legislation.

Question 6

Platt Amendment

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Platt Amendment a series of provisions that, in 1901, the United States insisted Cuba add to its new constitution, commanding Cuba to stay out of debt and giving the United States the right to intervene in the country and the right to buy or lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations.

Question 7

Emilio Aguinado

Answer 7

Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.

Question 8

Yellow journalism

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Newspaper stories that are not necessarily true(gossip) to make the stories seem more appealing to the public. Used to increase paper circulation prior to the Spanish-American war by exaggerating misdeeds of Spain prior to the war.

Question 9

Teller Amendment

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proviso was passed after Congress essentially declared war on Spain for its actions in Cuba. This legislation declared to the world that the US had overthrown Spanish misrule and would give Cubans their freedom. The US honored it in 1902, and withdrew from Cuba.

Question 10

Splendid little war

Answer 10

Nickname for Spanish American war coined by Hay, indicative of US attitude and cockiness// The Spanish-American War only lasted 100 days, cost the United States almost nothing in terms of casualties and brought the country significant gains in territory, turning the former set of colonies into an empire of her own and prompting Secretary of State John Hay to write to Theodore Roosevelt that the conflict was “a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives… favored by that Fortune which loves the brave.”

Question 11

U.S.S Reform

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USS Maine the battleship sent to Havana to protect Americans and their property; an explosion sank it; killing 260 men//After the war was won, the U.S obtained three major territories, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

Question 12

New Freedom

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Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s political slogan in the presidential campaign of 1912; Wilson wanted to improve the banking system, lower tariffs (taxes), and, by breaking up monopolies, give small businesses freedom to compete.

Question 13

Womans Suffrage

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for women to recieve the right to vote; the movement developed from the fight against slavery. 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote

Question 14

Wisconsin Idea

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reform program which included a direct primary, increased taxes to create commissions, curbing excessive lobbying, backing reform labors, and conserving natural resources/////It gave women the right to vote. Before the suffrage movement, only men had a voice in deciding political, social and economic issues.

Question 15

W.E.B Dubois

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W.E.B. Dubois W.E.B. Dubois was the first ever African American to obtain a Ph.D. and from a historically white University.(Harvard University) Founder of NAACP

Question 16

The White Mans Burden

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Kipling published the poem in the United States in 1899, shortly afther the U.S. won the Spanish-American War, and became an “imperialist” power by obtaining former Spanish possessions in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc.

In this poem Kipling was urging the United States to join the ranks of the Imperialist nations (England, France, Germany, Japan, and others) with an argument that boiled down to, that by doing good,

Question 17

Manifest Destiny

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Many Americans felt that the United States should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. We did not care who owned the land before us.The United States thought that Manifest Destiny meant that they had the God-given right to take the land.

allowed expansion took native americans land

Question 18

Monroe Doctrine

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A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 19

Roosevelt Corollary

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Roosevelt Corollary 1904: An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. has the right to protect its economic interests in South and Central America, and the U.S. has the right to exercise international police force to restore order.

Question 20

Open Door Policy

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Open Door Policy Statement of U.S. foreign policy toward China. Issued by U.S. secretary of state John Hay (1899), the statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade.

Question 21

Oplum War

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First Opium War (1839-42) British attempted to offset trade imbalance for Chinese tea by shipping highly addictive opium from Brit-ruled India to China in exchange for silver even though opium was outlawed in China. The war was started by the British against the Chinese for their efforts to force the halt of opium sales in China. China is easily defeated.

Question 22

*Edgar Rice Buuroghs

Answer 22

American writer of the jungle hero tarzan

Question 23

George Creel

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A young significance, master of propaganda, head of the Committee on Public Information. / Through many means of propaganda posters patriotism, leaflets, he “sold” the war

Question 24

Zimmerman Telegram

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• German’y foreign secretary wrote that Germany would help reconquer the land it had lost to the USA if Mexico would ally w/Germany (gain back Texas, Arizona, & New Mexico)
• led to Wilson declaring war on Germany

Question 25

*Trench Welfare

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Trench warfare led to stalemate. Neither Entente nor Central Powers had the offensive power to overcome the defensive tactic of trench warfare when both sides had machine gun and mustard gas.

Question 26

Punitive Expedition

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Punitive Expedition Name for the US Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico

Question 27

Influenca

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killed apron 50 million people / flu - Businesses shut down, orphans

Question 28

Moral Diplomacy

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Moral Diplomacy foreign policy proposed by President Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace

Question 29

Committee of Public Safety

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Established and led by Robespierre, fixed bread prices and nationalized some businesses. Basically secret police and also controlled the war effort. Instigated the Reign of terror.

Question 30

Sedition Act 1918

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US laws made to get rid of spies and other groups that harm the US. This led to many German Americans, Socialists, and even radical union groupsbeing prosecuted unjustly. Showed the fear that surrounded these groups due to the war.

Question 31

Fourteen Points

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The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace-called for self determination, freedom of seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms & league of nations

Question 32

League of Nations

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International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the united states to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany

Question 33

Red Scare

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Period of anti communist hysteria that caused fear and paranoia, hostility towards immigrants and people with radical views. The justice department overreacted by rounding up many innocent people and either deporting them or jailing them.

Question 34

Xenophobia-

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Fear of foreign immigrants, French German Polish Russia were coming to the US they feared communism -Led to Red Scare

Question 35

Jazz music

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The jazz age was a term coined by f sett Fitzgerald author of the great Gatsby when jazz music and dance became popular in the 1920. Jazz played a huge role in bridging the gap between whites and blacks dying the 1920 (the Roaring 20s). Jazz originated in New Orleans // devils music

Question 36

Marget Sanger

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American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S and the American Birth Control League which later became Planned Parenthood.

Question 37

Progressivism

Answer 37

Idea of progress
Science advancement
Social Organization is vital to improve human condition

Question 38

Muckrakers

Answer 38

american journalists

exposed social political corruption