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Ch. 6 World Power
Social studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | 2 cents an acre 7.2 million dollars. Good for fishing, fur trade, timber, and gold. 49th state |
| Hawaii | Military base 50th state |
| annex | A larger country protects a smaller country in exchange for their cooperation |
| yellow journalism | false and exaggerated reporting in the news |
| USS Maine | A battle ship sent by president McKinley to Cuba's Havana harbor during Cuba's revolution against Spain. The ship was exploded and 260 Americans |
| Spanish American war | Congress declared war on Spain on April, 25, 1898. One million Americans volunteered to fight. The U.S. was now a world power |
| Theodore [Teddy] Roosevelt | Assistant secretary of the navy. Left to find volunteer soldiers. Elected predident |
| Panama Canal | 50 miles long Used for shipping. Opened on August 15,1914 |
| Progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses to improve the way the government work |
| muckrackers | progressive writers who uncover what some people saw as "muck" |
| ida Tarnbell | wrote in newspapers about the dangers of the standard oil monopoly |
| trust | companies join together to to control whole industries. monopolies were only one company and trusts were groups |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a journal called "The Jungle" exposing conditions in meat packing industries, causing the meat inspection act |
| Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic drinks on Sundays |
| Rough Riders | A group of cowboys, native Americans, collage athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war |
| Buffalo Soldiers | Units of experienced African Americans that got the name when fighting the Native Americans on the Great Plains |
| San Juan Hill | American troops defeated the Spanish troops here on July 1, 1889 |
| August 1889 | The US and Spanish sign a treaty to end the Spanish American War |
| Isthmus | Narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas |
| Walter Reed | a doctor who discovered that many diseases were carried by mosquitoes and tested it on himself |
| The United States needs to get control of land for the panama canal | backed by the US panama gained independence and agreed to let the US build the canal |
| Diseases such as malaria and yellow fever were in hot wet areas like panama | areas with standing water were drained and mosquito population went down and so did cases of disease |
| mountains, swamps, and mud of panama made it hard to dig the canal | John Stevens brought more workers and improved living conditions for them, built railroads and convinced Roosevelt to use a system of locks to raise and lowerships |
| 16th amendment | started income tax |
| conservation | preventing 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 for ones country and desire to be 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 | an agreement among nations to defend one another in case of attack |
| isolationism | a country prefers to remain neutral |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during World War 1 formed the 14 points plan |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | one of the first fighter pilots to become an ace |
| League of nations | an international organization made to prevent wars |
| Treaty of versitiles | ended World War 1 punished central powers and demanded Germany to pay a large fine and not rebuild it's army |
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