American Imperialism, Progressivism, Wilson and WWI

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American Imperialism, Progressivism, Wilson and
WWI

• Imperialism 1880s 1910s
• Progressive Movement 1901-1915
• Wilson and WWI (1914-1919)
• MAJOR THEMES
• Why did the U.S. become an imperialist power and
  what was the nature of American imperialism?

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American Imperialism, Progressivism, Wilson and
WWI

• Different aspects of progressivism
• National, State, Local
• Various reforms extending democracy, regulating
  big business, curbing the power of the political
  machines, protecting labor, settlement houses

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American Imperialism, Progressivism, Wilson and
WWI

• Teddy Roosevelt and the rise of the presidency
• Wilsonian Idealism
• The Homefront during WWI
• The fight over the ratification of the Treaty of
  Versailles

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Key Terms

• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Queen Lilioukalni
• John Stephens
• Sewards Folly
• Teller Amendment
• Platt Amendment
• Yellow Journalism
• William Randolph Hearst

• Spanish-American War (1898)
• Remember the Maine (1898)
• Boxer Rebellion
• Open Door Policy
• Emilio Aguinaldo
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Albert Beveridge

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Key Terms

• The White Mans Burden
• Rough Riders
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Big Stick policy
• Panama Canal
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Anthracite Coal Strike (1902)

• Pancho Villa
• John J. Pershing
• Colossus of the North
• Ida B. Wells
• Ida Tarbell
• Muckrakers
• Margaret Sanger
• Treaty of Paris (1899)

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Key Terms

• Square Deal
• Meat Inspection Act (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle
• Socialist Party
• Eugene V. Debs

• 16th-19th Amendments
• Hepburn Act (1906)
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
• Bob Lafollette
• The Wisconsin Idea
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

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Key Terms

• Lusitania
• Espionage Act (1917)
• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• Great Migration
• Red Summer
• Election of 1912
• Zimmerman Note

• Federal Reserve Act (1913)
• The League of Nations
• Article X
• Reservationists
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
• IWW