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Stufflet Unit 14
Unit 14 APUSH
Question | Answer |
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the building of empires by taking over—either politically OR economically—foreign lands | imperialism |
theorist who claimed US needed strong navy to become a world power in book called The Influence of Sea Power upon History | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
group of American battleships that sailed around the world in 1907-1909 to display American naval power | Great White Fleet |
President from 1901 to 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
group that opposed American expansionism because it was against American values of liberty, self-government, and equality | Anti-imperialist League |
Intense nationalism that called for aggressive foreign policy | jingoism |
term for when sensationalist papers printed exaggerations in order to increase paper's circulation | yellow journalism |
US battleship sunk in Havana Harbor; led to calls for war with Spain | Maine |
amendment to Congress’ war declaration on Spain that called for Cuban independence | Teller Amendment |
major land battle in Spanish-American War; led by future President Teddy Roosevelt | San Juan Hill |
place where US fleet destroyed Spanish fleet in Spanish-American War | Santiago Bay |
Filippino guerrilla who led revolt against US occupation forces in Philippines for 3 years | Emilio Aguinaldo |
amendment to Cuban constitution that effectively made Cuba a US controlled territory | Platt Amendment |
act that created Puerto Rico's government structure and gave it non-voting representation in Congress | Foraker Act |
last monarch of Hawaii; overthrown by US settlers in 1893 | Queen Liliuokalani |
Sec. of State John Hay’s policy of telling Europeans that all nations would have EQUAL trading rights with China; started US involvement in China | Open Door Policy |
nickname for Teddy Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy | Big Stick Diplomacy |
statement by Teddy Roosevelt that said only US would intervene in Latin American affairs | Roosevelt Corollary |
Taft’s foreign policy of promoting stability abroad and US interests/power by supporting trade | Dollar Diplomacy |
Wilson’s foreign policy that showed he opposed imperialism and aggressive tactics of McKinley, TR, and Taft (Republicans) | “Moral” Diplomacy |
British passenger ship sunk by German navy in 1915 with 128 Americans on board | Lusitania |
German proposal to Mexico that asked Mexicans to declare war on US so as to occupy American troops that might be used in Europe | Zimmerman Telegram |
wartime government agency that set production goals and set prices | War Industries Board |
wartime government agency led by Herbert Hoover that tripled US exports to Europe | Food Administration |
wartime government agency that implemented daylight savings time | Fuel Administration |
government bonds that helped fund the US war effort | Liberty Bonds |
wartime government agency that promoted the war effort through pamphlets, posters, ads, celebrities, and “Four Minute Men” | Committee on Public Information |
outlawed “disloyal” or “abusive” comments about US govt during World War I | Sedition Act |
Supreme Court ruling that said free speech could be limited when it caused “clear and present danger” to public safety; upheld Sedition Act | Schenck v United States (1919) |
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after World War I; outlined various territorial solutions and goals for the postwar world | Fourteen Points |
idea that national groups should have their own countries | national self-determination |
money payments for wrong-doing | reparations |
leading "reservationist" senator who wanted to modify the Treaty of Versailles before the Senate would approve it | Henry Cabot Lodge |
part of Red Scare of 1920; mass arrests of socialists, communists in 33 cities in 1920; resulted in 4,000 arrests, but only 3 pistols | Palmer Raids |
black nationalist leader who sought to repatriate blacks to Africa | Marcus Garvey |