US History Unit Two

Women’s Suffrage

Key Concept: Women’s activism for social uplift

Abigail Adams reminded her husband to “remember the ladies”

Settlement Houses

Jane Addams: Well educated progressive woman who traveled Europe

  • When she came back to the US, she brought the practice of settlement houses

    • basically a community center

    • her’s was called Hull House

  • Mostly employed women

Suffrage Movement

  • National American Women’s Suffrage Association

    • A combination of the National Women’s Party (right to vote) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (Complete legal equality for women)

  • Many women marched for their right to vote

  • Woodrow Wilson passed the 19th Amendment in 1920

Suffragists: American Term

Suffragettes: British Term, used to diminish American Suffragists

  • Wyoming was the first to give women the right to vote

American Imperialism Pre WWI

  • America became the world's insudtrial leader

    • British pound was still the standard

  • American culture and products dominated European consumerism

Liberal Internationalism: Woodrow Wilson's belief that economic and political freedom go hand in hand. He used thgis to encourage American intervention in seemingly “undemocratic places.”

Theodore Roosevelt

  • American's used the monroe doctrine to set up a military presence in the Caribbeans

    • used to secure stable acess to tropical goods like bananas and sugar

  • Theodore Roosevelt was very active in international diplomacy

    • won a Noble Peace Award for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese war

    • helped establish Panama's independence in exchange for control over the Panama Canal Zone

      • The Panama Canal was the largest American construction project at the time

  • The US used what is called the Roosevelt Collorary to justify the use of “international police power"

    • this was justified with the Monroe Doctrine and used to keep European influence out of the west

    • “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Dollar Diplomacy: President Taft prefered to offer loans of US Dollars to cement USD as tehe standard international currency

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Imperialism: Foreign policy should be guided by democratic morality

  • despite claiming to respect latin independence, the US actually increased militant interventions

  • the US helped to organize the coup that assassinated the Mexican President

    • though Woodrow Wilson claimed he didn't know, he sent the US marines in an attempt to teach mexican citizens to “elect good men”

    • this was likely done to protect the American oil companies and farms based in Mexico

WW1 Begins

  • A Serbian Nationalists assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand kicking off an explosive chain reaction of wars

  • Colonialism and complex allieships split the Eurasian landmass into two sides

Allies: Britain, France, Russia, Japan

Central: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire (Turkey and much of the Middle East)

  • Because America is so ethnically diverse, citizens were split on who to support

    • Woodrow Wilson originally declaired neutrality with intent to stay out of the war

  • After German Naval forces sunk the Lusitana, a British submarine, killing the onboard Americans in the process, American's began to side against Germany, and Wilson announced his Preparedness Policy

America Joins the War

  • After Germany resumed submarine warfare in 1917, America officially joined the war

“The world must be made safe for democracy.”

  • Shortly after, Lenin won control of Russia and pulled out of the war, releasing Allied plans to distribute conqured teritories after the war

    • this was an embarrassment to Wilson who claimed to want a peaceful resolution to the war

Fourteen Points: Wilson's peace plan. It included more freedom in trade, seafare, and for colonized people. It also asked for open diplomacy (no more hidden treaties.) Not everything actually made it to the Treaty of Versailles