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Ch. 6 World Power
Term | Definition |
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Alaska | 49th state purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre |
Hawaii | gave the U.S a presence in the Pacific Ocean, 50th state |
annex | when a larger country protects or supports a smaller country in exchange for their cooperation |
yellow journalism | false or exaggeration reporting of news. It sold more papers and gave greater political power because it was a way of voters' opinions |
USS Maine | a battleship sent by President William McKinley in 1988 to Cuba's Havana harbor to protect the lives and property of Americans in Cuba during Cuba's revolution from Spanish Americans |
Spanish American War | congress declared war on Spain on April 25, 1898. Nearly 1 million Americans volunteered to fight. Established the Us World Power |
Theodore ( Teddy) Roosevelt | assistant secretary of the navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight. Became a hero and later became the President of the US |
Rough Riders | a group of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers led by Teddy Roosevelt |
Buffalo soldiers | units of experienced African American soldiers who fought against the Native Americans on the Great Plains |
San Juan Hill | July 1st ,1898 American troops defeated Spanish troops in the battle of San Juan hill. |
August 1898 | U.S 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 mosquitoes were carrying many diseases and tested hos theory on himself |
Three Problems #1 | United States had to get control on the panama canal |
Three problems #2 | |
Three Problems #3 | mountains, swamps , and mud of the Panama made it hard to dig the canal |
Panama Canal | opened on August 15, 1914 Used for shipping decreased shipping travel from 2 months to 9 hours |
musckrackers | progressives who wrote about the shameful areas and businesses of American life |
Ida Tarbell | wrote a series of magazine articles about the Standard Oil Company and the dangers of monopolies |
Trust | companies join together to form groups that control industries |
Upton Sinclair | wrote a novel called The Jungle exposing conditions of the meat packing industry. Helped convince Roosevelt to pass the Meat inspection act along with the Pure food and Drug Act |
Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic beverages on Sunday |
16th Amendment | 1913- to start Income Tax- tax on money earned from work or investments |
Conservation | protection of something from being used up or destroyed |
John Muir | a naturalist and writer who had a great impact on conservation. Worked with Roosevelt for the National Park services |
WWI | 1914-1919. Called the "war to end all wars" |
Nationalism | a love of one country and desire to have that country from the control of others |
Central Powers | Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ottoman Empire ( Turkey) , Bulgaria |
Allied Powers | UK, 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 the other countries handle their own issues |
Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI formed the 14 points plan |
Eddie Rickenbacker | one of the Us fighter pilot to be an ace |
League of Nations | an international organization formed to prevent wars |
Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI |