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Ch.6 World Power
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alaska | Purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre, for a total of 7.2 million dollars. |
| Hawaii | Was a military base and the 50th state |
| annex | when a larger country protects and supports a smaller country for their cooperation |
| yellow journalism | false or exaggerated reporting in the 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. |
| Spanish American War | Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, 1898. Nearly 1 million Americans volunteered to fight. Established the U.S. as a world power. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Assistant secretary of the Navy left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers to fight. Became a national hero and later became a president. |
| Panama Canal | 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 government worked. |
| muckrakers | Progressive writers ho uncovered what some people saw as "muck", shameful conditions in business and other areas of American life. |
| IDA Tarbell | wrote a series of magazines articles about the Standard Oil Company and dangers of monopolies controlling the market. |
| Trust | Companies join together to form groups that control whole industries.They had the power to push out the competition and drive up the prices |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote a novel called The Jungle exposing conditions in the meat packing conditions. |
| 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, College athletes, and wealthy New Yorkers led by Theodore Roosevelt in the SAW |
| Buffalo Soilders | units of experienced African American soldiers who got their name from fighting against Native Americans on the Great Plain |
| San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898- American Troops defeated the Spanish Troops at the Battle of San Juan Hill. The roguh Riders and Buffalo Soldiers joined with other troops there. |
| August 1898 | The U.S. and Spain sign a treaty to end the SAW |
| 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 his theory on himself. |
| Three Problems | 1. The U.S. had to get control of land for the Panama Canal. Solution: Backed by the U.S. Panama gained independence and agreed to let the U.S. build the canal. |
| 2. diseases such as malaria and yellow fever were in the hot wet areas of Panama Solution: areas of standing water were drained and the mosquito population went down, so did the cases of disease. | |
| 3. Mountains, swamps, and mud of Panama made it hard to dig the canal. Solution: John Stevens brought in more workers and improved living conditions for them, built railroads and convinced Roosevelt to use a system of locks to raise and lower ships. | |
| 16th amendment | 1913- started income tax - tax on money earned from work or investments. |
| Conversation | protecting something from being destroyed or used up. |
| John Muir | A naturalists and writer who had a great impact on conversation. Worked with Roosevelt to establish a National Park system. |
| WW1 | from 1914 - 1919. Called the "war to end all wars" |
| Nationalism | a love of one's country and desire to have tat country free from 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 on another. |
| isolationism | a country prefers to remain neutral (not picked sides) and let other countries handle their own issues. |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during WW1. Formed the 14 points 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 WW1. Punished the Central Powers and demanded that Germany pay a large fine and not rebuild its army. |
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