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Stack #4642081
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Smoked Yankees | Term for black soldiers who fought in the Spanish American war |
| African Proverb Theodore Roosevelt used | Speak softly and carry a big stick - Using the threat of force instead of immediate force to acquire new territories |
| Exodusters | Black people who moved west for opportunities and to escape the South |
| Buffalo Soldiers | - Black cowboys whose name was coined by NA's who believed their hair was similar to the buffalo - had their own calvary - assisted in the Civil War |
| Treaty of Guadalupe 1848 | - Granted American citizenship to the Mexicans who decided to stay - the legal protection that was promised them was not given to them |
| The Dawes Act of 1877 | - Allowed the government to hold the land of NA's in a trust for 25 years then they would be granted ownership - NA's were given the most arid "bad" land while the white settlers got good land - Government sold 80million of NA's land to white settlers |
| Sarah Rector | - Black grandchild of Creek Indians who received land that oil was later found in (oklahoma) -became the richest colored girl in the world at 11 - Relied on black activist groups to protect her land - Lost wealth during Great Depression |
| Chinese Immigrants | - Began coming in 1820s and stayed on the west coast -face racism -worked on the railroads - worked as peons |
| Peons | Manual labor of the Chinese similar to slavery |
| Justification of Lynching | - to protect the virtue of white women |
| European immigrants | - got citizenship before NA's and AA's - Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles,Irish |
| Ida B. Wells | - Main advocate for anti-lynching - Lost 3 friends to a lynch mob in Memphis - went against the culture of depicting black people as threats |
| Sam Hose | - captured by a lynch mob - 4000 visitors and members of the mob tortured him and burned him alive - accused of killing white employer and raping his wife |
| Lynching | - 2-3 AAs were lynched a week - Sometimes families were lynched together - Common in high black populations - MS and GA had the highest recordings of lynching |
| White Christian Nationalism | Christianity based on the principles of white supremacy and Manifest Destiny |
| American imperialism | - based in principles of manifest destiny - white supremacists believed it progressed America as an empire - relied on Treaty agreements to acquire land |
| Countries effected by American imperialism | - countries with people of color - Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East |
| Expansionist policies | - Businesses, christian religious institutions, and social interest groups - coupled religious beliefs with capitalism |
| Darwin's Theory | - Used to justify white supremacy - Felt they had the White Man's burden to Christianize groups and help them eveolve/become civilized |
| Who coined the term "the White Man's burden" | Rudyard Kipling |
| Yellow Journalism | When newspapers would compete for sensationalist stories |
| USS Maine | - initially used as a way for Americans to evacuate Cuba if need be - explosion destroyed the ship killing around 250 American soldiers - historians conclude the explosion was an accident |
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