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Ch.6 World Power
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | Purchased from Russia for two cents an acre, cost 7.2 million dollars. Became the 49th state |
| Hawaii | Military Base, then 50th state |
| annex | when a larger country protects and supports a smaller country for their support |
| yellow journalism | false or exaggerated news. Sold more papers and gave greater political power |
| 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 during Cuba's revolution from Spanish rule. An explosion destroyed the ship killing 260 Americans. |
| Spanish-American War | Congress declared war on Spain on April 25,1898. Nearly 1 million Americans volunteered to fight. Established the U.S. as world power. |
| Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt | assistant secretary of the Navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight. He became a national hero and later was elected President of the United States. |
| Rough Riders | a group of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War |
| Buffalo Soldiers | African Americans who fought Native Americans |
| San Juan Hill | Rough Riders |
| August 1898 | the 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 that 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 such as malaria and yellow fever were in the hot wet areas of Panama,mountains, swamps, and mud of Panama made it hard to dig the canal |
| Panama Canal | Used for shipping, 50 miles long. Ships could move from one end of the canal to the other in 9 hours instead of having to sail around Cape Horn -a two month trip |
| Progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve the way the government worked |
| muckrakers | Progressive writers who uncovered "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 dangers of trusts and monopolies controlling the market. Her articles helped convince Roosevelt to be a "trust-buster" and led to the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Trust | companies join together to form groups that control whole industries. Group of monopolies |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a novel called The Jungle exposing conditions in the meat-packing industry. Helped convince Roosevelt to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. |
| Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic drinks on Sundays |
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