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US History Unit 3-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absorbed into the main culture of a society. To look like, act like, and dress like | Assimilated |
| 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots to encourage Indians to become private property owners and farmers | Dawes General Allotment Act |
| Rail link between the eastern and western United States | Transcontinental Railroad |
| Law that gave 160 acres of land to person for 5 years if they are willing to live on it, dig a well, and build a road | Homestead Act |
| Presidents or politicians giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications | Spoils System |
| A political group that wins voter loyalty and guarantees power to a small group of leaders, who often abuse it for their own gain | Political Machines |
| Government officials and their non-elected employees who are employed in civil occupations | Civil Service |
| Law where the federal government attempts to hire employees on a merit system rather than a spoils system | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| Designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. The Government used gold as the basis of the nation's currency | Gold Standard |
| Currency not backed by gold or silver | Fiat Money |
| People’s Party; political party formed 1892 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms | Populist Party |
| Democratic populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the presidency. Fought for income tax, prohibition, and women’s suffrage | William Jennings Bryan |
| 25th president, lead the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raising protective tariffs to promote American industry | William McKinley |
| 19th century, purification of the gov’t, modernization, a focus on family and education, prohibition, and women's suffrage | Progressivism |
| reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt | Muckrakers |
| a movement in Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice | Social Gospel |
| an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. | Settlement houses |
| advocate of immigrants, the poor, women, and peace. Founded the first settlement house in the U.S. | Jane Adams |
| The right or privilege of voting | Suffrage |
| founder of the birth control movement in the U.S. and an international leader in the field | Margaret Sanger |
| provides men and women with equal voting rights | Nineteenth Amendment |
| African-American leaders, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, speech, known as the "Atlanta compromise | Booker T Washington |
| American civil rights activist, sociologist and writer who is famous for being the foremost black leader during the first half of the 20th century | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| 26th president, expanded the system of national parks and national forests, attacked big business and anti-labor decisions of the courts. Upheld the Monroe Doctrine and to establish the United States as a strong naval power | Theodore Roosevelt |
| President Roosevelt’s domestic legislation package designed to prevent the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of the small business owners and the poor | Square Deal |
| Congressional legislation spurred on by the horrific conditions of the meat packing industry as revealed in Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle | Meat Inspection Act |
| Congressional legislation that protected the public by placing controls on food and medicine | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| 28th President, guided U.S. through WWI and negotiated the Versailles Treaty | Woodrow Wilson |
| This amendment gave congress the authority to levy an income tax. | Sixteenth Amendment |
| Political, military and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories | Imperialism |
| Colonizing (stronger) country taking raw materials from weaker country to benefit their own economy | Extractive economies |
| Career Naval officer and historian who advocated that the U.S. build a stronger navy and suggested a canal across the isthmus of panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. | Alfred T. Mahan |
| Naval officer that sailed a fleet of American warships to Japan and convinced the Emperor to open up trade with the rest of the world | Matthew Perry |
| Hawaiian Queen who took over for her brother in 1891 and resented the power of the white planters who now owned much of Hawaii | Queen Liliuokalani |
| Cuban patriot who launches war with Spain for Cuban freedom | Jose Marti |
| A newspaper publisher who was rivals with Joseph Pulitzer. Their newspapers heightened public dislike of the Spanish government | William Randolph Hearst |
| Newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership | Yellow Press |
| Aggressive nationalism; support for warlike foreign policy – support for ones country | Jingoism |
| American naval officer, commanded the U.S. fleet that defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War | George Dewey |
| A cavalry unit made up of rugged westerners and upper-class easterners, commanded / organized by Pres T. Roosevelt. significant role in the battles for Kettle and San Juan hills outside Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War | rough riders |
| Signed by Spain and the United States in December 1898. Officially ended the war. Spain had to give up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific island of Guam. Also sold the Philippines to the US for 20 million dollars | Treaty of Paris |
| Rebellion against U.S. rule | Insurrection |
| A form of nontraditional warfare generally involving small bands of fighters attacking behind enemy lines. | Guerrilla Warfare |
| Governor of the Philippines who would later become President of the United States | William Howard Taft |
| A region (China) dominated and controlled by an outside power | Spheres of Influence |
| U.S. Secretary of State, issued the first of a series of notes to foreign diplomats in 1899. He was instrumental in crafting the Open Door policy toward China | John Hay |
| Violence started by members of a secret society in China, which prompted the governments of Europe and America to send troops to squash the rebellion | Boxer Rebellion |
| America’s policy which argued for equal privileges among countries trading with China | Open door policy |
| Japanese war victory by destroying Russian Navy off China sea ports and embarrassing Russian Army in Manchuria, China. President Theodore Roosevelt receives Nobel Peace Prize for getting the two sides to sign a treaty to end this war. | Russo-Japanese War |
| President Roosevelt agreed to end Asian children segregation in San Francisco school system…Japan agreed to limit emigration of Japanese citizens to America | Gentlemen’s Agreement |
| President Roosevelt created “this” naval force of 16 battleships to promote “good will” around the world…also to demonstrate the naval power of the United States | The great White Fleet |
| Congress passed this “Act” which established a civil government in Puerto Rico…allowed President of US to appoint a governor and people of Puerto Rico could be US citizens | Foraker Act |
| “This” amendment restricted the rights of Cubans, prevented Cuba of signing treaties with other countries without US approval, lease naval stations to the US, and granted US “right to intervene” to preserve order in Cuba | Platt Amendment |
| President Roosevelt’s belief in strong military to achieve American goals using this “diplomacy”…(nickname of diplomacy | “big stick” Diplomacy |
| The US paid $40 million to complete “this water route” to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean… so the US Navy would have a much faster route from one coast to the other…prices of goods came down too | Panama Canal |
| “This” presidential policy updated the Monroe Doctrine for an age of expansionism and economic influence | Roosevelt Corollary |
| President Taft wanted “this” policy rather than the military “big stick” policy of Theodore Roosevelt as US foreign policy…”this” policy was also aimed to increase American investments in businesses & banks throughout Central America & Caribbean | “dollar diplomacy” |
| This was President Wilson’s foreign policy to promote “human rights, national integrity, and opportunity” | “moral diplomacy” |
| Mexican rebels rose to power under “his” leadership to challenge President Wilson by crossing forces into New Mexico and killing 18 Americans | Francisco “Pancho” Villa |
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