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chapter 6 world powe
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre for a total of 7.2 million dollars |
| Hawaii | gave the U.S. a presence in the Pacific Ocean and eventually a military base |
| annex | When a larger country helps a smaller country for their cooperation |
| yellow journallism | false or exaggerated reported in the news |
| USS Maine | Battle ship sent by President William McKinley in 1898 to Cuba 's Havana harbor to protect the lives and property of Americans in Cuba during Cuba's revolution from Spanish rule |
| Spanish - American War | congress declared war on Spain on April 25, 1898 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | assistant secretary of the navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight |
| Panama Canal | opened on August 25, 1914. used for shipping 50 miles long |
| progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by business and to improve the way the government worked |
| Muckrakers | progressive writers who uncovered what some people saw as muck shameful conditions in business and other areas of american life |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote a series of magazine articles about the standard oil company and the danger of trusts and monopolies controlling the market |
| Trust | companies join together to form groups that control the whole industries |
| Upton SinClair | wrote a novel called the jungle exposing the 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 |
| Rough Riders | a group of cowboys native american 's, college athletes and wealthy New Yorkers led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish american war |
| Buffalo Soldiers | unit of African american soldiers who got their name from fighting native american's on the great plains |
| San Juan Hill | american troops defeated the Spanish troops at the battle of San Juan hill |
| August 1898 | america and spain sign 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 many diseases were carried by mosquitoes and tested the theory on himself |
| Three problems | united states had to get control of land for the panama canal. diseases like malaria and yellow fever were in hot areas of panama. mountains , swamps, and mud of panama made it had to dig the canal |
| 16th amendment | started income tax tax on money earned from work or other in vestments |
| Conservation | protecting something from being destroyed or messed 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 desire to have that country free from all others |
| Central powers | Germany, Austria Hungary , Ottoman empire (turkey), Bulgaria |
| Allied Powers | United Kingdom, France, Italy,Belgium,Serbia,U.S.,Russia |
| alliance | an agreement 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 business |
| Woodrow Wilson | president during WWl. formed the 14 point 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 WWl. punished the central powers and demanded that Germany pay a large fine and not rebuild its army |
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