APUSH Period 7

Insular Cases

1901 - constitution does not fully apply to the new US territories.

Philippine War

1899 - bloody uprising led by Emilio A.

Dollar Diplomacy

Taft policy for Americans to invest in foreign affairs instead of military intervention in Latin America

Platt Amendment

1901 - imposed on cuba, US could intervene in affairs, have naval bases on land

Roosevelt Corollary

1904 - US has right to intervene as international police

Ant-Imperialist League

social reformers to stop US imperialism

Monroe Doctrine

foreign policy that Europe could not intervene in Americans

Open Door Policy

equal trading rights with China

Panama Canal Zone

connects Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

Uncle Sam

a personification of the United States government

Progressive Era

Expanding the Role of Government

National Park Service OrganicAct

regulate and promote national parks

Hull Houses

1889 - for immigrants to learn skills for workforce

Food and Drug Act

1906 - creation of FDA

Prohibition

prohibited production and sale of alcohol, to better society

Eugenics

selective breeding trend, sterilization of unfit people, better baby comps

16th Amendment

1913 - income tax

17th Amendment

1913 - direction election of senators

18th Amendment

prohibition

19th Amendment

Women's right to vote

Woodrow Wilson

"The world must be made safe for democracy"

WW1

1917 got involved - maximize economic profit, ensure allies pay back their loans, maintain power, Zimmerman Telegram (US against Germany)

Harlem Hellfighters

Black Infantry Regiment with good reputations

The Great Migration

1910s - movement of black people out of the south to the north, freedom and economic oppurtunities

Lynching

to uphold Jim Crow and white supremacy in south

Red Summer

1919 - race riots and lynching in US

Espionage And Sedition Acts

1917 - punishment for speaking against US and the war

Language Laws

1919 - restricted teaching of foreign languages

League of Nations

1919 - after WW1, Wilson with world to maintain peace through security

Flappers

1920 - challenging gender norms

The Johnson-Reed Act

1924 - set immigration quota limit to 2%, none from Asia, boarder patrol

The Second KKK

1915 - racial terror, many members

Jazz Age / Harlem Renaissance

1920s - influx of creative work by black people

Advertising

new creative ways to get you to buy things like cars

Great Depression

1930s - economic crash, everyone doing badly

Red Scare

1919 - after WW1, Americans fearing communism, led to strikes

Palmer Raids

1919 - radicals' offices raided, many deportations

US rejects Treat of Versailles

1919 - will not join league of nations