1920s

What were the causes of the Spanish American War?

What were the causes of the Spanish American War?

Yellow Journalism, Support for Cuban Rebels, Protect American Business, Sinking of the Maine

What was the "Open Door Policy?" Why was China so valuable to U.S. interests?

an international agreement to keep China open to trade with all nations

Why did Teddy Roosevelt win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?

negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war

Who were the most famous examples of Yellow Journalism?

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

Who were the Anti-Imperialist League?

Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, William James, and William Jennings Bryan

Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism.

Goes against U.S. value of Self-Determination.

How did the U.S. acquire the rights to the land to build the Panama Canal?

Roosevelt encouraged the people of Panama to rebel against Colombia and took over

What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

BIG STICK

How did Wilson attempt to silence critics during WWI?

Espionage act - no military information can be shared

Sedition act - people can not go against the government or military

What was the case of Schenk vs. U.S.?

He handed out pamphlets about denying the military and was arrested for violation the Sedition act

Marshall of the Supreme court argued it could’ve caused panic and there is limits to the first amendment

“fire” in the theater

What was the Red Scare?

Fear of communism/socialism/anarchism would overthrow capitalism

What did natives want?

Removal of immigrants, poc, leftist ideology

Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What did he do that threatened people's rights?

US Attorney general.

Raids that raided people’s homes that were suspected of communism/socialism/anarchism

What was significant about the case of Sacco and Vanzetti?

Two union rights workers were blamed for a violent union riot

They were used as examples of what would happen if workers spoke out

Who said the "Business of America is business," and what does that infer?

Coolidge

Work is business

What technique did Henry Ford perfect, and what was the effect it had on the 1920's?

He used the Assembly line to speed production leading to mass production of goods

What was the installment plan?

Buying on credit extended peoples buying power that led to skyrocketing stock market

How did the culture of the 1920's change?

America became a consumer society

What traditional American Value conflicted with the decision to annex the Philippines?

What traditional American Value conflicted with the decision to annex the Philippines?

Why was Prohibition considered to be a failure?

Speakeasies, organized crime dependent on illegal smuggling and distribution of alcohol

What was the name given to those who illegally distributed and sold alcohol?

bootleggers

What was the famous Court case involving Evolution vs. Creation(The Scopes Monkey Trial)?

Scopes broke the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in schools. Darrow (defense) Bryan (prosecution) square off the Bible

What was a "Flapper?"

Young women who openly express their new found sexuality in fashion and behavior

What was the Great Migration?

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.

Who was Marcus Garvey?

A black separatist that wanted to achieve moving back to Africa and the leader of UNIA

Dollar Diplomacy

(Taft)

Improve financial \n opportunities for American businesses.

Buying up the debt of Latin American Countries to keep European powers out and creating indebtedness to the U.S.

Moral Diplomacy

(Wilson)

The U.S. should be the conscience of the world. \n Spread democracy.

Promote peace.

Condemn colonialism.

Emergency Quota act

eliminate immigration, restricted amount of immigrants 3% of residents from each country

National Origins act

Act which restricted immigration from any one nation to two percent of the number of people already in the U.S. of that national origin in 1890. Severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and excluded Asians entirely