Foreign Affairs from 18981914

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Foreign Affairs from 1898-1914

• American Imperialism

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Causes

• End of Frontier
• Foreign trade
• Compete for overseas empires
• Proponents
• Captain Thayer Mahan
• Josiah Strong
• yellow Journalism

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Foreign affairs cont.

• Venezuela Boundary dispute (1895-1896)
• Hawaii
• Cuba
• Explosion of Maine
• Spanish-American War
• Treaty of Paris, 1898
• Imperialism debate touched off by spoils of War
• Philippines
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Insular cases
• Platt Amendment

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Foreign affairs continued

• Insurrection in the Philippines
• Open Door Policy
• Panama Canal
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Russo-Japanese War
• Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
• San Francisco School Board Incident
• Gentleman's agreement
• Root-Takahira agreement
• Dollar Diplomacy

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The Progressive Era 1900-1920
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Progressive movement

• Started primarily from the middle class and
  constituted a majority of Americans in the
  Republican and Democratic parties.
• Social and economic changes create broad reform
  movements in American society.
• Protect welfare
• Moral reform
• Reforming the economy
• Making business efficient

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Progressive agenda

• Trusts
• Political Machines
• Shame of the Cities

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Muckrakers

• Journalists that attempted to expose the evils of
  society
• Cosmopolitian
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

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Progressive Activists

• Sought improved living conditions in cities and
  labor reform for women and children
• Jane Addams/Hull House
• Florence Kelley/reported on child labor
• Gains
• Muller v. Oregon

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Political reforms

• Robert LaFollette
• Direct primary
• Initiate, referendum, recall
• Direct election of senators
• State income tax

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TR

• Square Deal
• Regulation of corporations
• Anthracite Coal Strike
• Elkins Act
• Hepburn Act
• trustbuster

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Consumer protection and Conservation

• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Newlands Reclamation Act

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Split in Republican party

• Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
• Taft-Roosevelt Split
• Bull Moose Party
• Election of 1912
• Wilson
• New Freedom

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Wilson as President

• Underwood Tariff bill
• Federal Reserve Act of 1913
• Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1914
• WWI Causes
• Policy of neutrality
• Unrestricted submarine warfare
• Lusitania
• Zimmerman note

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World War I 1914 (1917)-1918
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WWI

• Mobilizing for War
• War Industries board
• Committee of Public Information
• Restrictions on Civil Liberties
• Espionage Act of 1917
• Sedition Act