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William Jennings Bryan
• 1896 Populist Candidate –
supported free coinage of silver
– “Cross of Gold” speech
Muckrakers
• Journalists who exposed corruption
and other problems of the late 1800s
and early 1900s
• Examples: Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell,
Frank Norris, Lincoln Steffans,
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt
• “Trustbuster” – broke up bad
trusts
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18
Amendment
• Made it illegal to sell alcoholic
drinks anywhere in the United
States
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19
Amendment
• Guaranteed women the
right to vote.
Suffrage/Franchise
• Right to vote
Foreign Policy
• Imperialism: policy of powerful
countries seeking to control the
economic and political affairs of
weaker countries or regions.
• Isolationism: policy of having little to
do with the political affairs of
foreign nations.
• Neutrality: Not taking sides in
a war.
• Expansionism: Policy of
extending a nation's
boundaries.
Big Stick Policy
• Teddy
Roosevelt’s
policy in Latin
America.
Open Door Policy
• Regarding China: any nation
could trade in the spheres of
others.
Panama Canal
• Panama agreed to let the US build a
canal - to benefit American
commerce and military capability.
Shorten the journey by 8,000 miles.
Spanish American War
• Causes:
• Economic – US business interests - $50 million in
Cuba
• Humanitarian – sympathized with the Cubans –
appalled by tactics of the Spanish
• Yellow Journalism –
• De Lome Letter – McKinley was weak from
Spanish minister
• Sinking of the Maine - battleship exploded –
killing 266 Americans – blamed on Spanish
• Effects:
• Lasted 4 months
• Granted Cuba its independence
• Gave US – Philippines, in return for
$20 million
• Ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the
US
USS Maine
• Battleship
exploded and sank
in the harbor of
Havana, Cuba
• Public blamed
Spain.
Yellow Journalism
• Sensational stories – often
exaggerated and distorted
events for emotional effect.
Propaganda
• Spreading of ideas or beliefs that
help a particular cause and hurt an
opposing cause.
World War I
• Causes:
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Nationalism
Imperialism
Alliance System
Militarism
German submarine
warfare
– Zimmerman
Telegram
• Results:
– Wilson’s Fourteen
Points
– League of Nations
– Treaty of Versailles
Trench Warfare
• Type of
fighting
during the
war
Treaty of Versailles
– Germany had to:
– take full responsibility for causing the
war
– pay reparations to the allies
– give up military forces
– give up overseas colonies
League of Nations
• Wilson proposed in his 14 points
• New world organization
• US refused to join – felt it would pull
them into future wars.
1920s
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Economic prosperity
Flappers, fads
Installment buying
Buying on Margin
Scopes Trial
• A biology teacher
violated a state law
forbidding anyone
to teach the
theory of
evolution.
• Scopes was
convicted – had to
pay a fine.
Clarence Darrow
questions Bryan during
the Scopes Trial
Rationing
• Meatless and Wheatless days – in
order to provide food for the troops
• Victory Gardens
• Ration Books
Immigration Quotas
• Acts of the 1920s to limit immigrants
as a result of nativist demands.
Farmers after WWI
• Farmers had expanded production during
World War I in response to rising prices
and the demand for food.
• New machinery and new techniques
increased farmers’ crop yield.
• After the war, the farmers had grown too
much, prices decreased.
Auto Industry
• Henry Ford’s assembly line –
increased production – cheaper cars
available
Women during WWI
• Women took jobs while men were at
war.
• Worked in factories
• Learned to become independent.
Role of Third Parties
• Third parties call attention to
problems in society that the voters
are interested in.
• These parties are usually absorbed
by the main party, or die out when
the problem disappears.
Roosevelt Corollary
• Claimed the right of the United
States to intervene in Latin America
to preserve law and order.
• “International police power”
Primary Source
• Original records of an event.
• Include documents left by
eyewitnesses, speeches, photographs,
artifacts, diaries, or letters are
examples. Interviews are also an
example of a primary source.
Secondary Source
• Later writings and interpretations of
historians and other writers.
• Examples – textbooks, articles
• They provide convenient summaries
and analysis of the information found
in primary sources.
Meat Inspection Act
• 1906 – created a system for
government inspection of foods,
meats and drugs sold to the public.