History final

-the Spanish-American War lasted how long

3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days (April 21-August 13, 1898)

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

A religious organization whose primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society.

- Zimmermann Telegram:

A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.

- The word "Progressivism stood for?

A social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of government actions.

- The Platt Amendment

A treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention.

- Booker T. Washington Atlanta Speech and school he founded

African American people should obtain social responsibility and need to work from the bottom to the top to achieve this. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

- People's Party what it was, stood for, platform

Agrarian political party. It aimed at forming a major new political party free of corporate money and influence. The platform proposed a system of federal storage facilities for the farmers' crops. The objective was to allow the farmers to control the pricing of their products.

- Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League believed what

Believed that American energies should be directed to solving issues at home, not abroad.

- U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:

Territory

- What statement was the Roosevelt Corollary an extension of?

The Monroe Doctrine

- Why was the United States adamant about practicing isolationism prior to entering World War I?

The U.S. economy was prospering and industry was growing.

- Why was the United States more likely to enter the war on the side of the Allied Powers?

The United States already invested a lot of money and equipment with the Allied Powers, mostly to Britain, and had a financial stake in ensuring their victory.

- The Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary were specifically applied to which area

The Western Hemisphere

- American expansionism after the 1890s was driven by what?

The desire for expanded overseas trade.

- what drove American expansionism after the 1890s:

The desire for expanded overseas trade.

What conditions made profitable farming increasingly challenging during the Gilded Age?

The high rates railroads charged farmers to transport their crops

-Native-born middle-class women under the leadership of Carrie Chapman-Catt argued that they deserved the right to vote on account of what?

Their birth in the United States.

-how did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops?

They called for public ownership of the railroads-

-In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association argued what

They wanted a constitutional amendment to secure the vote for women, but it also supported a variety of reforms that aimed to make women equal members of society.

-The Philippine War was how long

Three years

- the primary purpose of the voyage of the Great White Fleet?

To make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world.

- Why was "the city" the focus of Progressive politics?

Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and most significant changes.

- Why Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era

Women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.

- The Jungle effects

Wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.

- Journalists who sensationalized events to sell papers

Yellow journalists

-the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Economic and military interests

- In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for what

Gold

- What was discovered in Alaska in 1896?

Gold

- The Sixteenth Amendment:

Have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

- Sanford Dole's career in Hawaiian history and politics?

He served as the President of the Republic of Hawaii until his government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States.

- Farmers believed that their plight derived from what

High freight rates charged by railroads, excessive interest rates for loans from bankers, the high tariff policies of the federal government, and the fiscal policy that reduced the supply of money in the economy.

- President Theodore Roosevelt and labor

His support of labor unions in principle was genuine, but was contingent on organized labor's repudiation of violence and attempts to justify violence; and that he opposed union boycotts and mandatory union membership as inimical to his vision of a classless society.

- Between 1901 and 1920, why the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:

In order to protect the economic interests of American banks and investors.

-The Triangle Shirtwaist fire effects

Led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.

- Why were the French unsuccessful in building the Panama Canal?

Malaria, yellow fever, and other tropical diseases, the French attempt went bankrupt.

- The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

Middle-class reformers

- Who controls the Panama Canal currently

Panama

- muckraker

Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publication.

- Why is the Panama Canal important?

Represents the principal source of trade across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

- The U.S. bought Alaska from

Russia

- Why did the woman suffrage movement increasingly focus its attention on a national amendment to the Constitution?

State campaigns were difficult and often unsuccessful.

-Wilson campaign slogan

"He kept us out of war" "American first"

- Roosevelt Corollary and Taft's dollar diplomacy

- Roosevelt Corollary: It stated that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American countries where European powers sought to collect debts or whose governments were thought to be unstable. - Taft's dollar diplomacy: A policy whereby American influence would be exerted primarily by American banks and financial interests.

-Jane Addams and Hull House

- The goal was for educated women to share all kinds of knowledge, from basic skills to arts and literature with poorer people in the neighborhood. - Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, and author.