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APUSH Period 7: 1890-1945

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Reasons for U.S expansion overseas
-"closing" of the frontier
-economic motives
-racial theories
Spanish-American War
In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence. Some Americans sympathize with their want for freedom, others don't think it's our place. Starts when USS Maine mysteriously explodes off coast of Cuba. Immediate blame goes to Spanish (newspapers), but it really came from a malfunction. War starts in Cuba. Ends with Treaty of Paris of 1898 - US gets Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico from Spain
Teller Amendment
Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war, but could intervene in their government when necessary
Impacts of U.S expansion overseas
-Spanish American War
-U.S gained Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
-Little territory gained but closer to Asian markets (china)
Rosevelt Corollary
The idea that Latin America political instability was not good for US security and US could intervene
Big Stick Diplomacy
Diplomatic policy developed by T.R where the "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.
Dollar Diplomacy
Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support ($) for the right to "help" countries make decisions about trade and other commercial ventures. Basically it was exchanging money for political influence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Populism
the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
Nativism
-Lots of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe because of Industrial Revolution
-Lots of nativism towards Catholics and Jews
Democrats and Populists
Dems picked up some Populist party ideas - Silver standard, sympathetic of workers, regulation of big business. Republicans
Progressive Era took place from
1890-1920
Progressives
-urban, middle class women
-sought to reform society socially and politically on the local, state, and federal level
Muckrakers
A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big business and the corruption of urban politics; discussed worker conditions, what goes into products, sanitation; included Frank Norris (The Octopus) Ida Tarbell (A history of the standard oil company) Lincoln Steffens (the shame of the cities) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
Meat Inspection Act
1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
-Established by Food and Drug Act
-A federal agency charged with enforcing regulations against selling and distributing adulterated, misbranded, or hazardous food and drug products
Progressive Movement and women
-Lots of progressive movements spearheaded by women (similar to Antebellum reforms)
Hull House
Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
Temperance and Prohibition
champions of reform were divided over this issue, urban Progressives recognized saloons were headquarters of political machines, little sympathy to movement, rural reformers believed they could clean up morals by eliminating it
Sherman Antitrust Act
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions
Clayton Antitrust Act
1914 act designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; certain activities previously committed by big businesses, such as not allowing unions in factories and not allowing strikes, were declared illegal.
Progressive Era Amendments
-16: income tax
-17: direct election of senators
-18: prohibition of alcohol (repealed by 21st)
-19: gave women the right to vote
Civil Rights issues
-lowest point (nadir period)
-lots of lynching and segregation
-revival of the Ku Klux Klan (The Birth of a Nation)
-no real progress
Used federal government to regulate
-businesses (Clayton Anti Trust Act)
-economy (federal reserve)
-environment (Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir)
-expand democracy (initiative, referendum, recall, 17th and 19th amendments)
Great Migration
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
WWI
U.S initially was neutral, entered to "make the world safe for democracy" -Woodrow Wilson
Domestic life under WWI:
-restriction of civil liberties (Eugene Debs was arrested for criticizing the war)
-increased opportunities for women and African Americans (Great Migration)
Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
League of Nations
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
1st Red Scare (1919-1920)
caused by Russian Revolution, labor unrest, immigrants
Effects ( 1st Red Scare )
-suppression of radicals
-immigration quotas
Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Great Depression
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
New Deal
A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
Impacts of the New Deal
Expansion of power of the federal government, raised national debt, government should be more involved in the lives of people
WWII
1939-1945
Decision to drop the atomic bomb
-to save American lives
-show Soviet Union the U.S' power
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