Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective:
Explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation’s proper role in the world.
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Learning Target:
I can compare and contrast the foreign policies of Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson, & I can evaluate the consequences of each.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What is yellow journalism? How did it impact the Spanish American War?
2. Citizenship Question: What does the judicial branch do? 
   1. amends the Constitution and overturns laws
   2. decides if a law goes against the Constitution
   3. stipulates the number of Supreme Court Justices
   4. provides legal advice to the President and his staff
3. Guided Learning: American Imperialism
4. Reflection Question: What was the Anti-Imperialism League? Who did they support in the 1900 election?

Homework: American Imperialism Reading