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BUYS_Standard 5
Question | Answer |
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What was the primary reason the US military intervened in areas like Mexico, Latin America, and the Carribbean? | To protect business/ economic interests |
What is a term used to describe sensational headlines of a newspaper? | Yellow Journalism |
What is Big Stick Diplomacy? | The threat of using military force in foreign policy |
What MAIN event was the off-set of the Spanish American War? | Sinking of USS Maine |
What is the Monroe Doctrine? | Opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere |
The Open Door Policy applies to international trade with WHAT COUNTRY? | China |
What key fueling stop did the US gain after the Spanish- American War? | The Phillippines |
To prevent involvement in another European War, the US kept to itself in a policy known as ___________________. | Isolationism |
Boat sunk during Mexican American War | USS Maine |
Boat sunk during WWI | Lusitania |
When did WWI start | 1914 |
President Wilson's plan for peace was referred to as | the fourteen points plan |
Why did the USA decide not to participate in the League of Nations | it may take the focus off American interests |
What was the goal of the League of Nations | to maintain world peace |
What was the Zimmerman Telegram | a note from Germany to Mexico encouraging Mexico to attack the USA and reclaim Texas |
Yellow Journalism is.... | Sensational newpaper headlines |
Muckrackers | investigative journalism reporting to expose a wrong |
The Jungle was a book that was written to | expose the meatpacking industry. |
Does Solid South refer to REPUBLICANS or DEMOCRATS? | Democrats |
Judicial Review is best defined as... | the power to declare a law unconstitutionals |
Laissez- Faire means... | Government HANDS OFF. Prices and Wages should be determined by the marketplace. |
If someone is a philanthropist they | give generously to society. I.E. help poor people. |
19th Amendment allowed | women to vote |
Thomas Paine's Common Senese helped the Revolutionary War because it | persuaded Americans to support independance from Britian |