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White Man’s Burden

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The spreading of American values to non-white people (the uncivilized)

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Reasons for expansion

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Profits, patriotism, piety, and politics/public opinion

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Yellow Journalism

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journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration, led to war with Spain

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USS Maine

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Thought to have been sunk by Spaniards, leads to support of war; but really the gun room was too close to the boiler

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Teller Amendment

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a joint resolution of the US Congress, enacted on April 20, 1898, in reply to McKinley’s War Message; placed a condition on US military’s presence in Cuba

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Treaty of Paris 1898

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Ratified in February, 1899, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the US; gave US temporary control of Cuba and permanent control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

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Insular Cases 1904

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Addressed status of new territories and ruled the constitution did not follow the flag

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Open Door Notes/Policy

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Proposed free trade in China and supported territorial integrity in China

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William McKinley

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Won election of 1900, supported imperialism

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Roosevelt Corollary 1904

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Extinction of Monroe Doctrine, discouraged European expansion in the Western Hemisphere; US are policemen of the Western Hemisphere

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Panama Canal 1904

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Helps military and shipping of goods

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Great White Fleet (1907-1909)

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US Navy goes on goodwill tour, gets name from ship being white (in peace), shows the world improvements to Navy, tells Japan were in peace but if needed well be back in black (war)

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League of Nations

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Last point to Wilson’s 14 points, association of nations to plan for a peace covenant to stop war, it could handle problems that a peace treaty couldn’t, ended WWI

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Automobiles/Radios (Consumer Economy)

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Came about in the Roaring Twenties, good for the government because money was circulating without government help

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The Great Depression

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Stock market crash of 1929, didn’t become great until 1931, people looking for government help, structural weaknesses caused this

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Scopes Trial

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Scopes vs. Tennessee, substitute teacher accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act which made it illegal to teach human evolution in state funded schools

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Harlem Renaussance

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Cultural movement that spanned through the 1920s (New Negro Movement)

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The New Deal

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Relief, reform, recovery

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Jobs program, give people income and increase purchase power

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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Deal with poverty and give economic development

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Dollar Diplomacy

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Taft, gave loans to developing nations in exchange for greater American influence

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Moral Diplomacy

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Wilson, objected gunboat and dollar diplomacy, set moral example in world affairs

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Neutrality Proclamation

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August 1914, US not taking sides in WWI, trade with Allied and Central Powers

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Zimmerman Telegram

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decoded message from Germany to Mexico wanting to form alliance against the US to win land back, Mexico says no, telegram goes public

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War Industries Board

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makes sure war material was produced in the US, set production cost, allocate raw materials, and pushed for labor unions

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Committee on Public Information

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led by George Creel, didn’t tell people what to think, just gave facts, encouraged newspapers to get approval before publishing, sent pro-war speakers to speak

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Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment)

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government mandated production of alcohol, done locally first and then nation wide with amendment

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Schenck v. United States (1919)

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president of socialist party convicted of selling goods against the draft, uses free speech amendment against court (where free speech vs plausible speech comes in)

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Eighteenth Amendment

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prohibition of alcoholic in the US by declaring the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal

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Alice Paul (Nineteenth Amendment)

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woman who fought for amendment, pass amendment to let women vote, went on hunger strikes, picket strike at white house, “safer democracy” but half the population don’t vote

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Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

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created a farm board to stabilize crop prices

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

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worst thing government could do, made tariff war worse, passed because congress wanted it

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

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going back to banking system, put more money in circulation

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Bonus Army

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summer 1932, composed of 31,000 WWI veterans, demanding government pay war bonus in ‘32 instead of waiting to pay it in ‘45, vets camped out in Hooverville, government sent federal troops to attack veterans, made US want any democrat over best republican

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Charles Coughlin

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Catholic priest in Detroit, raised find for his church by radio broadcast, soon went national, 4 million listeners; more money in circulation, more spending, better economy

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Francis Townsend

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California doctor, old age resolving pension: give $200 a month the people over 60, $ had to be spent in that month, help economy

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Huey Long

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Louisiana governor, sent to congress in 1932, best known for his Share Our Wealth program, created in 1934 under the motto “Every Man a King,” set net asset tax

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National Labor Regulation Act

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Known as the Wagner Act, required companies to recognize unions and to accept collective bargaining

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Social Security Act

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Most important of new deal programs, created old age pension, unemployment insurance, and basic welfare, everyone had to do it

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Court Packing Plan

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Plan where Roosevelt can add 6 people of his choice to the court, no one likes plan, fails