Aloha, Imperialism.Group 4: Emma, Jessica, Maria, Jose, Rogelio

Vocabulary-Open Door Policy-Social Darwinism-Spanish-American War-Yellow Journalism-USS Maine-Panama Canal-Roosevelt Corollary (1904)-Dollar Diplomacy-Social Gospel Movement-Taylorism-Muckrakers-Interstate Commerce Act-Food and Drug Act-Meat Inspection Act-Seventeenth Amendment(1913)-Hull House-Settlement Houses

-New Nationalism -New Freedom Policy-Federal Trade Commission-Anti-Saloon League-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair-Triangle Shirtwaist Fire-Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”-American Expeditionary Force-War Industries Board-Committee on Public Information-Fourteen points-League of Nations

-Jingoism

-Yellow Journalism

-Teapot Scandal-Red Scare-Palmer Raids-National Origins Act-Scopes Trial-Jazz Age-Flappers-“Lost Generation”-Harlem Renaissance-Model T-advertising age-Washington Conference-Fordney- McCumber Tariff-Universal Negro Improvement Association-Ku Klux Klan-Emergency Quota Act-Speakeasies-creationism-“The Jazz Singer”-“The Man Nobody Knows”-Battle of Chateau-Thierry-Meuse-Argonne Offensive-Liberty Bonds-Lever Food and Fuel Control Act-Progressivism-Committee on Public Information-Espionage Act- “reservationists”

Wars(Spanish-American War)

• Steps:

1. 1868: Cuban colonists revolt

2. 1895: Economic depression, falling prices of tobacco and sugar revolt.

3. Spanish sent troops; "reconcentration"

4. Cuban exile community in the U.S. pressured America; public opinion supports

5. Sinking of the USS Maine

6. Letter from Spanish Ambassador insulting President

• The war was supported by American

expansionists and humanitarians.

Wars cont. (Spanish American cont.)

Spanish American War cont.

• Outbreak:o Roosevelt ordered commanders to be ready secretly.

McKinley mad but followed suit.o 400 battle deaths; 2,500 to malaria/food poisoning.

o Every ship of Spanish force destroyed.

• Treaty of Paris:

1. Recognized independence of Cuba

2. 20 million for Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

World War I

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand World war I

• President Wilson issues policy of neutrality.

U.S trades with allies (Great Britain, Russia, France)

• U.S eventually gets involved:

Sinking of Lusitania

Zimmerman Note

• American expeditionary force (American force of 14,500 men that landed in france under command of General Pershing)

aid to allied war effort, both militarily and psychologically.

• back at the home front:

Liberty bonds sold and propaganda was used to encourage Americans to oppose the "hun"

Many blacks moved to northern cities to work in factories. Women also worked in factories

• Wilson's Fourteen Points were opposed by France and England esp. France

-Wanted Germany to pay back.

• U.S opposed Treaty of versailles

- Ended up not joining League of Nations.

WWI1. Woodrow Wilson 14

Points

1. Reliance on open diplomacy rather than secret agreements

2. Freedom of the seas

3. Free trade

4. Reduce the military forces and/or weapons

5. Readjust the colonies fairly

6. The allowance for Russia to self-determine its own government

7. Respect for Belgium's Integrity

8. Restoration of French Territory

9. Italy receives territory based upon ethnicity

10. Austria-Hungary receives fair development opportunities

11. Independence for the Balkan states

12. Self-determination for the peoples of the Ottoman Empire and free passage through the Dardanelles

13. Independence for Poland

14. The formation of a League of Nations to guarantee independence for all countries, large and small

Economic Policies

Imperialism:• Motivated by economic, political, religious, and social factors.

• Before the 1890s, the U.S. did not feel the need to expand continentally; there was still westward expansion.o Plus, industrial, urban, and immigration growth distracted America.

• Open Door Policyo Thank Secretary of State John Hay.

Asked European leaders for this policy.

NOTE: American expansion did not extend to the Middle East.

• Four Reasons for U.S. Imperialism1. Industrial leaders

-Feared production > consumption-Predicted the need for raw materials.

2. Politics (Military)-Bases-Naval Act of 1900

3. Social Darwinism4. American spirit would be gone if the frontier closes.

Economic Policies Cont.

Progressivism• Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal • Woodrow Wilson's Presidency

a. Underwood Tariff Act of 1913: cut tariffs on imported goods

b. Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914: outlawed certain business practices

c. Federal Reserve System: designed to protect economy against panics

Domestic PoliciesRoosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:

• U.S. has the right to intervene in any country of the Western Hemisphere that could be harmful to the U.S.

WWI

• Liberty Bonds

• Lever Food and Fuel Control Act 1917

• Espionage Act of 1917

Domestic Policies Cont.Progressivism

• 17th Amendment

• Initiative Process

• Referendum Process

• Recall Process

• Direct Primary

• Crack down urban political machines

President T. Roosevelt

• New Nationalism

• Bull Moose Party

• 16th Amendment: collected fed. income taxes largely from wealthy

• U.S. Forest Service

Foreign PoliciesThe Phillippines and Cuba: Protector

or Opressor?• Cuba:

o Imperialistic intentions + Belief of liberty and government = ???

o Teller Amendment

America cannot annex Cuba under any circumstances

o Platt Amendment

Cuba could not enter foreign agreements without U.S. approval.

U.S. had the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.

America be given two naval bases on Cuban land.

• Philippines:

o Senate debate

o Anti-Imperialist League

1898

Mark Twain and William Jennings Bryan

Hawaii • First ex. of Americn outlook on foreign force.

• Primarily interested in the sugar plantaions.

• 1887 Deal

o Sugar imported for free

= Simulated trade

=Sugar planters → big power.

• Queen Liliuokalani

o Wanted to reduce foreign country influence

o 1893:

Sugar planters + marines = queen overthrown.

= Hawaii declared a republic

= Requested Hawaii to be annexed

• President Cleveland opposed the annexation but recognize the republic. BUT, President McKinley used Manifest Destiny; Congress approved the annexation.

Cultural Change

Cultural Change cont.Progressivism

-NAACP founded

-Feminism

• min. wage laws

• Muller v. Oregon

• settlement houses

-Child labor laws enacted

-Desire to reform city govn'ts

-Social Gospel Mvmnt

• religion aided struggle for social justice

FRQAnalyze the roles that women played in Progressive era

reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following.

Politics

Social conditions

Labor and working conditions

Topic Sentence #1: Women saw an opportunity to speak their minds and fight for their

rights in the progressive era which contributed to the rise of feminism.

Topic Sentence #2: In addition to their motherly roles, women were able to aid

immigrants by improving their social and living conditions.

Topic Sentence #3: By the 1920s, the traditional role of women had evolved which

allowed women to seek their individuality.

Hot [TOT]tieThesis: During the Progressive era, women began to focus

on themselves and their voices, continuing the political fight for civil rights and starting a new image in the social scene.

Social Conditions

-Role in WWI1. Great Migration

Urban life Settlement houses Hull Houses(Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr)

-Change of Women's Role in 1920 1. "Flappers" 2. Divorce rates

Politics

-Woman Suffrage 1. National American

Woman Suffrage Association (Elizabeth C. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony)

2. National Woman's Party 3. Muller v. Oregon: set limit

on hrs. a woman would work

Quiz Time!1. All of the following reasons are why the U.S. intervened in Philippines EXCEPT

a. The Roosevelt Corollary

b. Expansion/imperialism

c. "Civil war" was likely to occur

d. The Filipinos were "unfit for self-government".

2. Jane Addams is most known for

e. Calling the mistreatment of the disabled to attention.

f. Writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

g. The founding of hull houses

h. Finding NOW.3. What event caused the first world war?

a. Murder of German President in Berlinb. Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnia

c. Hundred Year Ward. The revolution of Russia with Lenin

4. Who were the "Lost Generation"?

i. The soldiers stuck in Europe after WWI

j. Writers who wrote about alienation from the mainstream

k. American romantic poets

l. The kids of the baby boom