Imperialism

What is Imperialism?

• extending your domestic policy to unite the country

• extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

• going to war with a country to establish peace

• extending the borders and annexing a country and granting rights

What was not a cause of the Spanish American War?

• DeLome Letter

• Yellow Journalism

• Zimmerman Note

• Yellow Journalism

What was the Open Door Policy?

• called for tariffs against countries

• government allowed progressives to talk to government officials for change

• we would welcome immigrants to the country for jobs

• called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China

What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

• nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order

• Sailing the Great White Fleet around the world

• called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading

• Protecting Canada from German occupation

The Panama Canal ....

• connected the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

• connected the Pacific and the Indian Ocean

• connected the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans

Moral Diplomacy......

• Roosevelt's policy to contain Imperialism

• Taft's policy to stop Imperialism

• Wilson's plan to enter WWI to end fascist rule

• Wilson's Diplomacy to stop Imperialism and promote democracy

US President _______ _______ maintained a policy that kept the US out of European affairs, though the Zimmerman Telegram would force him to eventually abandon this stance.

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

 

This was a German offer of an alliance with Mexico.

• Zimmerman Note

• Sedition Act

• Fourteen Point

• Sussex Pledge

 

made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. 

• 17th Amendment

• Espionage Act of 1917

• Wilson's 14 Points

• The US Constitution

 

Is a United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.

• Plessey vs Furgeson 

• Marbury vs Madison

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Schenck v. United States