Unit 10 Review

World Power

1880-1920

Ch. 29, 30, & 33

Themes:

    • Organize U.S. Foreign policy from 1870-1920 by:
      • 1) Geographic region Far East, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe
      • 2) American motives Economic, moral, Monroe Doctrine, balance of power among European nations, dominance in the Caribbean
      • 3) Influence of domestic policies on foreign policy
    • Imperialism: characteristics, sources, nature, causes, impact, results, compared to European Imperialism
    • Link Reconstruction, Populism, and Imperialism
    • Compare and contrast the old and the new Manifest Destiny
    • Roosevelt's foreign policy
    • Wilson's foreign policy
    • U.S. policy toward Mexico and Cuba, 1890s-1930s
    • Causes of U.S. entry into World War I and its attempts to remain neutral
    • Defeat of the Versailles Treaty: immediate and long-term consequences
    • War and the threat of war united and divided Americans in the 1898-1920s period
    • Compare and contrast the Populist and Progressive movements
    • Compare Progressivism and Jacksonianism
    • Goals of Progressivism: successes, failures
    • Progressives as the new Federalists: compare Hamilton's program and progressivism
    • Progressivism as the "have-nots" against the "haves": role of labor unions, immigrants, Blacks, women and urban poor
    • Corporations and unions both wanted governmental protection but not governmental regulation
    • Trace the regulation of big business and court interpretations from the Interstate Commerce Act to US v. US Steel Corp in 1920
    • Compare and contrast the programs and administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft: banking, railroads, trusts, tariffs, etc.
    • World War I both helped and hurt Blacks and labor
    • Compare the domestic impact of the First and Second World Wars
    • Progressivism: a liberal or conservative movement?

Terms:

    • James G. Blaine
    • "yellow journalism"
    • Alfred T. Mayan
    • Matthew Perry
    • Queen Liliokalani
    • Treaty of Paris (1898)
    • Insular Cases
    • Platt Amendment
    • Aguinaldo
    • Open Door Policy
    • TR's Big Stick Policy
    • Pan-Americanism
    • jingoism
    • USS Maine
    • Commodore Dewey
    • Rough Riders
    • Walter Reed
    • Teller Amendment
    • Protectorate
    • John Hay, Secretary of State
    • Boxer Rebellion
    • Clayton-Bulwar Treaty
    • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
    • Roosevelt Corollary
    • Russo-Japanese War
    • Gentleman's Agreement
    • Muckrakers
    • Thorstein Veblen
    • Ida Tarbell
    • Margaret Sanger
    • Triangle Shirtwaist
    • Square Deal
    • Forest Reserve Act (1891)
    • Hepburn Act (1906)
    • Meat Inspection Act
    • Pure Food and Drug Act
    • Ballinger=Pinchot
    • Bull Moose Party
    • New Freedom
    • Socialist Party
    • "Big Bill" Haywood
    • Underwood-Simmons
    • Jones Act (1917)
    • Gen. John Pershing
    • Triple Alliance
    • Lusitania
    • War Industries Board
    • Espionage Act (1917)
    • selective service
    • Versailles Treaty
    • collective security
    • Red Scare
    • Panama Canal
    • Treaty of Portsmouth
    • Great White Fleet
    • Jacob Riis
    • Lincoln Steffens
    • John Dewey
    • 16, 17, 18 19 Amendments
    • Anti-Saloon League
    • Newlands Reclamation Act
    • Coal Strike (1902)
    • Trustbuster
    • Upton Sinclair
    • Panic of 1907
    • Bob LaFollette
    • "Dollar Diplomacy"
    • New Nationalism
    • IWW
    • Federal Reserve Act
    • Jones Act
    • Pancho Villa
    • Triple Entente
    • Central Powers
    • Zimmerman Note
    • Herbert Hoover, FDA
    • Sedition Act (1918)
    • Fourteen Points
    • Big Four
    • Henry Cabot Lodge
    • Palmer Raids

Essay Questions:

    1. To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt in regard to TWo of the following:
      • Labor
      • Trusts
      • Conservation
      • World Affairs
    2. Analyze the ways in which the federal government sought support on the home front for the war effort during the First World War.
    3. Albert Beveridge, a U.S. senator from Indiana, spoke out about the United States' involvement with Spain in the Philippines. In a well-constructed essay, outline the arguments that Beveridge uses to support annexing the Philippines and identify the rhetoric that reveals Beveridge's belief in Anglo-Saxonism.
    4. In the Platform off the Anti-imperialist League, it states, "it [the Administration]seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands." To what extent did war with Spain extinguish the spirit of 1776? Did it at all? Was the Treaty of Versailles a violation of Wilson's high wartime ideals or the best that could have been achieved under the circumstances?