EXAMINATION 2 REVIEW:
EXAM REVIEW:
Chapter 20—An American Empire:
You should know:
Chapter 21—The Progressive Era:
You should know:
Chapter 22—America and the Great War:
You should know:
TERMS:
Chapter 20—An American Empire:
You should know:
- What led to the idea of American imperialism—i.e. Idea of imperialism already gripping Europe, Economic considerations, Christian missionaries, expansion beyond the continent, notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority, and religion
- Initial expansion in the Pacific region—Alaska, Hawai’i and Samoa
- Overthrow of Hawai’ian monarchy
- Spanish-American War—Causes, course of war (Dewey/Philippines; Roosevelt/Cuba), and outcome of the war
- Involvement in China—“Open Door” policy in China
- Election of 1900—McKinley’s Assassination and Theodore Roosevelt as President—“Roosevelt Corollary”
- Philippine-American War
- Panama Canal, Russo-Japanese War and involvement in Europe
Chapter 21—The Progressive Era:
You should know:
- The nature of Progressivism—i.e. Reaction to the Gilded Age; more democracy; honest, efficient government; business regulations; greater social justice
- What led up to the Progressive Era—Problems with industrialization; urban reform; socialist critique of living/working conditions; and muckrakers
- Themes of Progressivism—Democracy; efficient, good government; regulation of giant corporations; social justice
- What the progressive era presidents—Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson—accomplished during their respective administrations—regulation, trust-busting, Federal Reserve and income tax
Chapter 22—America and the Great War:
You should know:
- Nature of Wilson and foreign policy—inexperienced and idealistic
- Wilson and Latin America—Mexico intervention, dollar diplomacy, Latin American intervention
- American neutrality during World War I—Strict neutrality, sinking of Lusitania, views of immigrants, economic credit to Allies, preparedness debates
- Election of 1916
- Toward intervention in World War I—Attempts to mediate, German submarine warfare, Zimmermann Telegram, Russian Revolution
- American participation in World War I—Support of Allies, home front and civil liberties, America’s role in the war, Russian intervention
- Peacemaking—Wilson’s 14 Points, League of Nations, Versailles Treaty, Rejection of Versailles Treaty in US
- Post-war—Spanish Flu pandemic, Red Scare, race riots, Labor unrest
TERMS:
- New Manifest Destiny
- Alfred T. Mahan and Influence of Sea Power
- Queen Liliuokalani
- “Yellow Journalism”
- U.S.S. Maine
- De Lome Letter
- Admiral Dewey
- Rough Riders
- Platte Amendment
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- “Open Door” Policy
- “Roosevelt Corollary”
- Hay-Herran treaty
- Great White Fleet
- William Demarest Lloyd
- Russo-Japanese War/Treaty of Portsmouth
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Muckrakers
- Social Gospel
- 16 Amendment
- 17 Amendment
- Square Deal
- Elkins Act
- Hepburn Act
- Federal Reserve Act
- Federal Trade Commission
- Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
- New Freedom
- The Jungle
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act
- Lusitania
- Western Front
- Trench Warfare
- Zimmerman Telegram
- War Industrial Board
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- 14 Points
- League of Nations
- 19th Amendment
- First Red Scare
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Spanish Influenza