Unit 8 Review Guide—Imperialism/WWI
Imperialism
William H. Seward
Purchase of Alaska
Burlingame Treaty
White Man’s Burden
Our Country
Henry Cabot Lodge
Alfred Thayer Mahan: The
Influence of Sea Power on
History
Venezuelan Boundary
Dispute
Queen Lilioukalani
Samoan Islands
John Hay
Open Door policy
Boxer Rebellion
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Wilson-Gorman Tariff
Yellow Journalism
“You furnish the pictures
and I’ll furnish the war”
General Valeriano Weyler
José Martí
De Lôme letter
U.S.S. Maine
“Remember the Maine”
“A splendid little war”
Spanish-American-CubanFilipino War
Commodore Dewey
Rough Riders
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Paris
Platt Amendment
Washington Treaty of 1900
Emilio Aguinaldo
Philippine Insurrection
William Howard Taft
“Speak Softly, but carry a big
stick”
Portsmouth Conference
“Yellow Peril”
“Great White Fleet”
Roosevelt Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Porfirio Diaz
Pancho Villa
General John Jay Pershing
“New Navy”
Walter Reed
Jones Act
Taft-Katsura Agreement
Root-Takahira Agreement
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
The Great War
Charles A. Beard
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
Lusitania
Arabic
Sussex
President Wilson’s Proclamation
of Neutrality
Jeannette Rankin
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Margaret Sanger
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
American Expeditionary Force
General John J. Pershing
Selective Service Act
Liberty Bonds
War Bonds
War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
National War Labor Board
Food, Railroad, Fuel
Administrations
“Great Migration”
George Creel
Committee on Public
Information
National Defense Act of 1916
Navy Act of 1916
Revenue Act of 1916
War Revenue Act of 1917
Espionage Act of 1917
Sedition Act of 1918
Eugene V. Debs
“Liberty Cabbage”
Schenck v. U.S.
Abrams v. U.S.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Louis D. Brandeis
Balfour Declaration of 1917
Wilsonianism
Fourteen Points
The Big Four
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Article 10 of the League
Covenant
The Irreconcilables
Reservationists
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bolshevik Revolution
Red Scare
“Red Summer” of 1919
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer Raids
Eugene V. Debs
William Z. Foster
Analyze the extent to which the Spanish-American War was a turning point in American foreign policy.
“Both the Mexican War and the Spanish-American War premeditated affairs resulting from deliberately calculated
schemes of robbery on the part of a superior power against weak and defenseless neighbors.” Assess the validity
of this statement.
Compare the debates that took place over American expansionism in the 1840s with those that took place in the
1890s, analyzing the similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras.
To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a
continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure?
Unit 8 Review Guide—Imperialism/WWI
Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
“The United States entered the First World War not ‘to make the world safe for democracy’ as President Wilson
claimed, but to safeguard American economic interests.” Assess the validity of this statement.
Analyze the ways in which the federal government sought support on the home front for the war effort during the
First World War.
It was the strength of the opposition forces, both liberal and conservative, rather the ineptitude and stubbornness
of President Wilson that led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles. Assess the validity of this statement.
While Wilson was making the world “safe for democracy,” he was violating Civil Liberties at home. Assess the
validity of this statement.