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Ch. 6 world power
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | Became the 49th state |
| Hawii | gave the U.S. a presence in the Pacific Ocean and eventually a military base. Became the 50th state |
| annex | when a larger country protects and supports a smaller country in exchange for their cooperation |
| yellow journalism | it sold more papers and gave greater political power because it was a way of controlling voters' opinions |
| USS Maine | battleship sent by President William McKinley in 1898 |
| Spanish-American War | congress declared war on spain on April 25, 1898. Nearly 1 million Americans volunteered to fight. |
| Theodore (Teddy) Roodevelt | assistant secretary of the Navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight. |
| Rough Riders | a group of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers led by Theodore Rosevelt |
| Buffalo Soldiers | units of experienced African American soldiers who got their name from fighting againdt the Native Americans. |
| San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898-American troops defeated the spanish troops at the battle of San Juan Hill |
| August 1898 | the U.S. and spain sighn a treaty to end the Spanish-American War |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas |
| Walter Reed | a doctor who discovered that many diseases were carried by mosquitoes and tested his theory on himself |
| Three Problems #1 | United states hadd to get control of land for the Panama Canal |
| Three Problems #2 | deseases such as malaria and yellow fever were in the hot wet areas of panama |
| Three Problems #3 | mountains, swamps, and mud of Panama made it hard to dig the canal |
| Panama Canal | used for shipping, 50 mils long. ships could move from one end of the anal to the other in 9 hours |
| Progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve the way government worked |
| muckrakers | progressive writers who uncovered what some people saw as "muck", shameful conditions in busness |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote a series of magazine articles about the Standard Oil Company and the dangers of trusts and monopolies |
| Trust | companies join together to form groups that control whole industries |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a novel called The Jungle exposing conditions in the meat-packing industry |
| Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic drinks on Sundays |
| 16th Amendment | 1913 - started income tax - tax on money earned from work or investments |
| Conservation | protecting something from being destroyed or used up |
| John Muir | a naturalist and writer who had a great impact on conservation. Worked with Roosevelt to establish a national park system |
| World War 1 | from 1914 - 1919. Called the "war to end all wars" |
| Nationalism | a love of one`s counntry and a desire to have that country free from the control of others |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottman Emmpire (Turkey), Bulgaria |
| Allied Powers | United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, U.S., Russia |
| alliance | an agreement among nations to defend one another in case of attack |
| isolationism | a country prefers to remain neutral (not pick sides) and let other countries handle their own issues |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during WW1. Formed the 14 Points plan for the armistice agreement and proposed the League of Nations |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | one of the first U.S. fighter pilot to be an "ace" |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed to prevent wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WW1. Punished the Central Powers and demanded that Germany pay a large fine and not rebuild its army |
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