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Chap. 8 notes
| was a rancher, politician, 26th President of the USA, author, and naturalist | Theodore "Teddy Roosevelt" |
| was his beloved horse on the Dakota Plains | Manitou |
| ____ served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish American War. The group was known as the _______ and Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders were involved in the _______ in 1898. giving him the status as a war hero | Roosevelt, Rough Riders, Charge up San Juan(Hill) Heights |
| Roosevelt owned the ______ in the ND Badlands near Medora | Maltese Cross Ranch and the Elkhorn Ranch |
| When President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 it made ______ the youngest President ever at __. _____ youngest elected President at __ | Teddy Roosevelt, 42, JFK, 43 |
| the policy of a government that increases its size, either by forcing or influencing other countries to submit to their rule | imperialism |
| 1853 arrives in Japan with 4 warships and gifts and machines in hopes of impressing the Japanese, so they will open up to trade with the US | Commodore Matthew Perry |
| expansionist who pushed for purchase or annexation of Alaska, Midway Islands, and Hawaii | Secretary of State William Seward |
| people that wanted to extend the power and borders of a nation | expansionist |
| Alaska- Secretary of State William Seward, convinced Congress to purchase it from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million or 2cents an acre. People Ridiculed him calling it _____ and ______ granted statehood______ as the 49th state | Seward's Folly, Seward's Icebox, 1-3-1959 |
| the formal act of acquiring territory by conquest or occupation | annexation |
| Queen Liliuokalani"Queen Lil" Hawaiian Queen who opposed foreign rule; "Hawaii for the Hawaiians". | Hawaii |
| When the ____ in February of 1898 exploded causing the US to start the Spanish American war. Hawaii remained a territory until granted statehood as the 50th state in _______ | U.S.S. Maine 8-21-1959 |
| Arguments for and against expansionism by the USA | imperialist argued that the USA ought to take its place among world powers spread democracy and Christianity to uncivilized peoples, overseas markets would be good for american business |
| continued... | Anti imperialist argued that expansionism violated the US's democratic beliefs by imposing rule on others and would hurt the economy because people from the colonies would take away jobs from American workers. |
| Expansionist Senator from Massachusetts who believed in a "New Manifest Destiny" | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Define Manifest Destiny | the US should be a world power |
| author of the influence of sea power upon history- he was the catalyst behind the development of a stronger modernized US Navy, arguing that a a nations strength depends on its sea power | Captain Alfred Mahan |
| a person or event that quickly causes change or action | catalyst |
| define Monroe doctrine | belief stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of or intervention in the Western Hemisphere |
| In the 1896 the Olympic Games returned to Greece after 1,500 years as a _____ saw it as an opportunity to promote peace through international competition | Baron Pierre de Coubertin |
| 1895 Cuban revolutionary leader against the spanish | Jose Marti |
| was sent to stop the revolt and ordered cubans rounded up and put into camps anyone outside the camps would be executed | Spanish General Weyler |
| became know as Butcher Weyler | General Weyler |
| Define Yellow Journalism | exaggerated news stories that were meant to appeal to emotion |
| owner and publisher of the New York Journal | William Randolph Hearst |
| owner and publisher of the New York World | Joseph Pulitzer |
| Remember the Maine!-February 15,1898, an explosion destroyed the Battleship ____________ in Havana harbor and about 260 American sailors died in the blast. | U.S.S. Maine |
| Asian Fleet, surprised the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, Philippines and sank all ten of the | Commodore George Dewey |
| Spanish name for black American soldiers fighting in Spanish American war | smoked yankees |
| The rough riders and Roosevelt were involved in the two key battles in the Caribbean the _______ and taking _____ both near Santiago, Cuba | Charge up San Juan Heights, Kettle Hill |
| the war ended with a treaty and Spain giving up___, the USA got _____-, ______,______ | Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines |
| Filipino who led the fight for independence in the Philippines against the Spanish and later against the US. _______ the US granted the Philippines independence | Emilio Aguinaldo, July 4, 1946 |
| people would be US Citizens and territories could eventually become states- Puerto Rico | Incorporated Territories |
| self governing unit voluntarily grouped with another country | common wealth |
| did not receive US citizenship but could become independedent countries-Cuba | Unincorporated Territories |
| often fatal tropical viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes | Yellow Fever |
| Define Walter Reed and William Gorgas | doctors that traced the species of mosquito that carried the yellow fever virus and brought the disease under control in Cuba |
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