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chapter 8,9,10
us honors history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WEB Dubois | first black to graduate from harvard. belived that the black community needed strong leaders. |
| jim crow laws | laws enacted by the southern government to seperate white and black people in public. made them second class citizens caused decades of ineqaulity |
| plessy vs ferguson | supreme court ruled that segration in public places was legal.started the seperate but equal doctrine and inequality for many decades |
| booker t washington | believed racial inequality would end once african americans proved their worth in society |
| square deal | describes the progressive reforms during teddy roosevelts precidency . this was a time of great improvment |
| upton St claire | wrote the jungle the nasty conditions in the meat packing business prompted teddy roosvelt to pass the meat inspection act |
| imperialism | policy where a stronger country takes over a weaker country militarly, politically, and economically |
| john hay | issued the sereis of policies called the open door notes .controlled the american ports in america |
| uss maine | a us warship that mysterioulsly exploded and sank . one reason why we wanted war w spain |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| roots of american imperialism | influence of european imperialism , a thirst for new markets desire for military strength and superiority of anglo saxton decent |
| boxer rebellion | many chinese natives attacked any foriegn person in china took 2 months to put down |
| panama canal | a canal that was built during roosevelt precidency shorted the travel time. instead of going around sa you could go right thru |
| open door policy | americans belived that the growth of the nation depended on their exports . us had the right to intervene to keep foriegn markets open.closing of american products threated our lives kept us in control |
| spanish american war | a war agaisnt spain where we took control of the phillipines and cuba this expanded our land and show that we are a world power |
| pancho villa | led revolts against the mexican dictator.later held responsible for the killing of 17 americans |
| john j pershing | led an expeditionary force to capture poncho villa intensified anti american feeling in mexico |
| alfred t mahan | president of the naval war college was an advocate for american military expansion america follwed up and built a stronger army |
| teddy roosevelt | president who led many progressive reforms these benefited americans |
| trustbusting | deal with the problems of trusts concentrated on filling suis under the sherman anti trust act |
| federal arbitartion | when strike arose the government was required to step in |
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