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ch. 6 world power
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | purchased by Russia, total of 7.2 million . natural resources are fur trade, fishing, timber, and gold |
| Hawaii | gave the U.S. a presence in the pacific ocean and eventually a military base. became 50th state |
| annex | when a larger country protects and supports a smaller country in exchange for their cooperation |
| yellow journalism | false or exaggerated reporting in the news |
| uss maine | battleship sent by president William Mckinley in 1898 to Cuba's Havana harbor to protect the lives and property of Americans in cuba |
| Spanish American War | congress declared war on spain on April 25,1898. nearly 1 million americans volunteered to fight. |
| Theodore (teddy) roosevelt | assistant secretary of the navy left his jib to organize a group of volunteered soldiers to fight . |
| rough riders | a group of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, and wealth New yorkers led by TTR in the Spanish- American War |
| buffalo soldiers | African American soldiers who got their name from fighting against the Native Americans on the Great Plains |
| 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 to end the Spanish-American War |
| inthmus | 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 had to get control of land for the panama canal |
| Three problems | 2. diseases 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 a canal . |
| Panama Canal | opened on August 15,1914 used for shipping |
| Progressives | reformers who worked to stop to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way government worked |
| muckrakers | progressive writers who uncover what some people saw as "muck" shameful conditions |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote a series of magazine articles |
| trust | companies join together to form groups that control whole industries |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a novel called the jungle exposing conditions. |
| blue laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic drinks on Sunday |
| 16th amendment | 1912- started income tax - tax on money 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 |
| world war 1 | from 1914- 1919 called the" war to end all wars" |
| Nationalism | a love of ones country and a desire to have that country and a desire to have that country free from the control of others |
| central powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire (turkey) , Bulgaria |
| Allied Powers | United Kingdom, France, Italy , Belgium, Serbia, U.S. , Russia |
| alliance | and agreement among nations to defend one another in case of attack |
| isolationsm | a country prefers to remain neutral ( not pick sides) and let other countries handle their own issues |
| Woodrow Wilson | president during WW1 |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | one of 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 central powers and demanded that Germany pay a large fine and not rebuild its army |
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