Apush unit 7

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.

imperialism

The U.S. policy of avoiding entangling alliances with European powers.

isolationism

A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.

Open Door Policy

A conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. The U.S. defeated Spain and gained the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Spanish-American War

Progressives tended to be women, middle class, and live in urban areas. Sought to reform problems created by the Industrial Revolution.

Progressive Era

In politics, the procedure whereby voters can, through petition, present proposed legislation directly to the electorate.

initiative

The submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct vote of the electorate.

referendum

In politics, a procedure for removing an official from office through popular election or other means.

recall

A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

Prohibition

The women's right to vote, granted by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920).

Women's suffrage

The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States.

The Great Depression

Those who advocate for the sustainable use and management of natural resources including wildlife, water, air, and earth deposits, both -- renewable and non-renewable.

conservationists

A system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits.

Welfare State

A viewpoint or ideology associated with free political institutions and religious toleration, as well as support for a strong role of government in regulating capitalism and constructing the welfare state.

Liberalism

Diversified mediatechnologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication.

mass media

The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

The Great Migration

The peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

Treaty of Versailles

An intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It lacked an armed force to enforce policy and was not joined by the United States.

League of Nations

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

fascism

Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II.

Axis Powers

U.S., Britain, France, which were allied before and during World War II.

Allied Powers

A guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents. Primarily Jewish Europeans during WWII.

Nazi Concentration Camp

A genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews and members from other fringe social groups during World War II.

Holocaust

Forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the U.S. of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had lived on the Pacific coast.

Internment of Japanese Americans

A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. The U.S. only focused on important Japanese strongholds.

Pacific "Island Hopping"

The landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

D-Day

A "fission" bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

atomic bomb

The process of assimilating American character, manner, ideals, culture, and so on.

americanization

In politics, the right of a people (usually based on ethnicity) to shape its own national identity and form a government, without outside coercion of influence.

self-determination

A tax on income in which the taxation rates are progressively higher for those whit higher income.

graduated income tax

First case to use the "Brandeis brief"; recognized a 10-hour work day for women laundry workers on the grounds of health and community concerns.

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Unanimously upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 which declared that people who interfered with the war effort were subject to imprisonment; declared that the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech was not absolute; free speech could be limited if its exercise presented a "clear and present danger."

Schenck v. U. S. (1919)

The court upheld the constitutionality of detention camps for Japanese-Americans during World War 2.

Korematsu v. U. S. (1941)

An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.

socialism

Prominent socialist leader (and five time presidential candidate) who founded the American Railroad Union and led the 1894 Pullman Strike

Eugene Debs

Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force.

Roosevelt Corollary

Founded in 1905, this radical union, also known as the Wobblies aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers, advocated social revolution, and led several major strikes. Stressed solidarity.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.

Pure Food and Drug Act

Twenty-sixth president of the United States; he focused his efforts on trust busting, environment conservation, and strong foreign policy.

Teddy Roosevelt

27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term.

William Taft

March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety precautions for workers

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences. Common in the South after the Civil War through the 1960s.

segregation

Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.

Harlem Renaissance

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

Fourteen Points

A social/political movement designed to prevent a socialist/communist/radical movement in this country by finding "radicals," incarcerating them, deporting them, and subverting their activities. Periods of Red Scare occurred after both World Wars in the United States.

Red Scare

A law passed by Congress in 1918 (during World War I) to make it illegal to say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort in WWI. Seen as a military necessity by some for effectively fighting in WWI.

Sedition Act

Also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial;

1925 court case argued by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated. Highlighted the growing divide between rural (more conservative) and urban (more liberal) interests in the United States.

Scopes Trial

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts. The trial lasted from 1920-1927. Convicted on circumstantial evidence; many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities.

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

Idealistic agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another.

Kellog-Briand Pact

Republican president at the outset of the Great Depression. As a Republican, he believed that the federal government should not interfere in economic problems; the severity of the Great Depression forced his hand to provide some federal assistance to those in need, but he mostly left these efforts to the states.

Herbert Hoover

One of Herbert Hoover's earliest efforts to protect the nation's farmers following the onset of the Great Depression. Tariff raised rates to an all-time high.

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

This amendment to the new Cuban constitution authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests. Cuba pledged not to make treates with other countries that might compromise its independence, and it granted naval bases to the United States, most notable being Guantanamo Bay.

Platt Amendment

A series of riots in 1944 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored.

Zoot Suit Riots

FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War.

Yalta Conference

United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).

William Jennings Bryan

(1856-1924) President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.

Woodrow Wilson

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

United Nations

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

communism

The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life.

Bolshevik Revolution

Established the National Labor Relations Board; allowed employees to collectively bargain

Wagner Act

US general who chased Villa over 300 miles into Mexico but didn't capture him

John J Pershing

Volunteer regiment of US Cavalry led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War

Rough Riders

Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got into trouble

Platt Amendment

U.S. wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the U.S. duty free, Queen Liliuokalani opposed so Sanford B. Dole overthrew her in 1893, William McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii in 1898

Annexation of Hawaii

Foreign policy proposed by President Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace

Moral Diplomacy

Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support ($) for the right to "help" countries make decisions about trade and other commercial ventures. Basically it was exchanging money for political influence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dollar Diplomacy

Diplomatic policy developed by T.R where his power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.

Big Stick Diplomacy

He believed that the future of military power lay in the navy. Wrote Influence of Seapower on History

Alfred Mahan

a popular American minister in the late 1800s who linked Anglo-Saxonism to Christian missionary ideas

Josiah Strong

the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests

Queen Liliuokalani

25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist

William McKinley

a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply

Federal Reserve Act

New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions

Clayton Anti-Trust

A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning.

Sussex Pledge

A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.

Lusitania

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

Yellow Journalism

A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism."

William Randolph Hearst

United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)

Joseph Pulitzer

1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops.

Boxer Rebellion

This was the spark that started World War I.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

build up your military

Militarism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

Nationalism

defense agreement among nations

Alliance System

(1918) President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars.

14 points

President Wilson's justification for getting America involved in WWI

"Making the world safe for democracy"

The revolution against the Tsarist government. Wilson believed the US could make WWI about democracy.

Russian Revolution

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Propaganda

After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolatoinism.

Return to Normalcy

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.

Laissez-faire

objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire. Idealism, self-interest, racism, constitutionalism, and other reasons motivated them, but they failed to make their case; the Philippines were annexed in 1900

Anti-Imperialist League

1855-1925. Progressive Wisconsin Senator and Governor. Staunch supporter of the Progressive movement, and vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, WWI, and League of Nations.

Robert La Follette

Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers

Square Deal

a federal agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices

Federal Trade Commission

Passed by president Wilson in 1916. Was originally a reform wanted by the Populist party. It gave farmers the chance to get credit at low rates of interest.

Federal Farm Loan Act

Anonymous voting method that helps to make elections fair and honest

secret ballot

Gave women the right to vote

19th Amendment (1920)

Direct election of senators

17th Amendment

income tax

16th Amendment