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Ch. 6 World Power
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | Was purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre,for a total of 7.2 million dollars.Many natural importance.It became the 49th state . |
| Hawii | gave the U.S. a presence in the Pacific Ocean and eventually a military base. Became the 50th state |
| annex | When a larger country protects and supports a smaller one in exchange for their cooperation |
| yellow journalism | false or exaggerated reporting in the news. It sold more papers and gave greater political power. |
| USS Maine | battleship sent by President William McKinley in 1898 to protect the lives and property of Americans in Cuba during Cuba's revolution |
| Spanish-American War | Congress declared war on Spain on April 24,1898. Nearly 1 million Americans volunteered to fight |
| Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt | assistant secretary of the Navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight. Later was elected president |
| Rough Riders | A group of cowboys, Native Americans college athletes and wealthy New Yorkers led by Teddy Roosevelt in the war |
| Buffalo Soldiers | experienced African American soldiers who got their name from fighting against the NA on the Great Plains |
| San Juan Hill | July 1 1898 American troops defeated the Spanish troops at the Battle of San Juan |
| August 1898 | the U.S. and Spain signed 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 mosquito's and tested his theory on himself |
| Three Problems | 1-U.S. had to get control of land for the Panama Canal.2-diseases were in hot areas of Panama 3-swaps and mud of Panama made it hard to dig |
| Panama Canal | opened August 15,1914 it was used for shipping,50 miles long took only 9 hrs instead of 2 months |
| progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve how government worked |
| muckracers | Progressive writers who uncovered what some people saw as "muck" shameful conditions in business and other areas of life |
| Ida Tarbell | wrote a series of magazine articles about the Standard Oil Co. and the dangers of trusts and monopolies controlling markets |
| Trust | company's that form together to control whole industries |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote a novel called the jungle exposing conditions in meat packing industry. |
| Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems and made it against the law to buy alcoholic drinks on Sundays. |
| 16th amendment | 1913-started income Tax-tax on money earned from work or investments. Money to be used to pay for reforms and other government projects |
| Conservation | protecting something from being destroyed |
| John Muir | a naturalist 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 of ones desire to have that country free from the control of others |
| Central Powers | Germany,Austria-Hungary,Ottoman Empire (turkey) Bulgaria |
| Allied Powers | U.K France Italy Belgium Serbia U.S Russia |
| alliance | an agreement among nations to defend one another in case of an attack |
| isolationism | a country prefers to remain neutral and let other countries handle their own issues |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI Formed 14 points plan for armistice agreement and proposed the League of Nations |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | one of the U.S fighter pilot to be an "ace" |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed to prevent wars |
| Treaty of Verailles | ended WWI. Punished the central powers and demanded that Germany pay a large fine and not rebuild it's army |
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