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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 William Seward | secretary of State for Lincoln; wanted to see the US expand by buying Alaska from Russia |
| Hawaii | a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean |
| Liliuokalani | she was Hawaii's queen in 1891; first woman to rule Hawaii |
| Puerto Rico | was one of the Caribbean Island |
| Cuba | one of the Carribean Island; people of Cuba revolted against spanish rule |
| the Maine | ship that exploded killing 260 Americans |
| yellow journalism | exaggerated reporting |
| Spanish American War | was a war between the US and Spain |
| Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt | the assistant secretary of the Navy; left his job to organize a group of volunteer soldiers called the "Rough Riders"; |
| Rough Riders | Roosevelt's soldiers |
| Buffalo soldiers | several units of experienced African American soldiers serving in the wars against native americans and the Spanish American War |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas that are North and South America |
| Walter Reed | an army doctor and medical researcher that discovered these diseases that were malaria and yellow fever were carried by mosquitos |
| John Stevens | was appointed chief engineer for digging the Panama Canal and approved and funded W. C. Gorgas's efforts to eliminate mosquitos |
| Panama Canal | 50 mile canal that was open for shipping connecting North and South America |
| Trusts | groups that had the power to drive out any competition |
| Progressives | reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and to improve the way in which government worked |
| Muckrakers | they were people that had covered what some people saw as muck, shameful conditions in business and they were a group of Progressives and made up of writers |
| Ida Tarbell | a Muckraker; that wrote a series of magazine articles about Standard Oil, the company founded by John D Rockfeller |
| Upton Sinclair | a Muckraker; wrote a novel called "The Jungle" that tells about conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago |
| Blue Laws | laws that were designed to solve some of the social problems of the day; a very serious problem was that many people abused alcohol; one blue law said that people cannot buy alcohol on Sundays in some areas this law did help reduce abuses |
| John Muir | a naturalist and writer; had a great impact on the conservation of some of the country's most beautiful areas |
| conservation | protecting something from being destroyed or used up |
| Yosemite National Park | established in California in 1890 by John Muir |
| Grand Canyon National Monument | established in 1908 by Roosevelt set aside 800,000 acres in Arizona |
| World War I | war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Central and Allied Powers. the US joined the Allied Powers in 1917, helping them to victory |
| Nationalism | a love of one's country and the desire to have that country free from the control of others |
| Alliance | agreement among nations to defend one another |
| Austria-Hungary | a country in South Central Europe was in control of land that another country Serbia believed it owned |
| Serbia | 1914 a Serbian Nationalist assasinated Ferdinand -then Austria -Hungary |
| isolationism | the US preferred to remain neutral and let other countries handle their own affairs |
| Woodrow Wilson | was a President of the US and was progressive; declared War in 1917; learned that a telegram had been sent from Germany to Mexico asking Mexico to enter the war on the side of the Central Powers in return Germany promised to get back the land it lost to the US |
| John J Pershing | an experienced soldier that fought in many battles, including at San Juan Hill |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | one of the first US fighter pilots |
| Alvin C York | was a sergeant well known sharp shooter |
| Versailles, France | outside of Paris where President Wilson and other Allied leaders met to draw up a peace treaty |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed to prevent wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | officially ended WWI |
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