GACS U.S. History Unit 6 Review Part 1
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32 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Imperialism | When one Nation dominates over a larger one in 4 areas. 1.Economics 2.Politics 3.Military 4.Culture |
| "The Bucther" | nickname for Valeriano Wyler |
| Seward's folly | many criticized William Seward's purchase of Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, calling it his folly. He was Secretary of State |
| Muckrackers | journalists who wrote about environmental, social, and political problems Americans faced in the early 1900's |
| Women's Christian Temperance Movement | women's movement to stop Prohibition |
| Nobel Piece Prize | Teddy Roosevelt was awarded this for settiling the Russo-Japanese War. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino who was lead both the Phillipine revolution against Spain and then the United States |
| Pancho Villa | Rebel Mexican General who led a raid against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17 Americans, was then chased across mexico by US |
| Roosevelt Corallary | Corallary That ended Monroe Doctrine |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914) wrote The Influence of sea power among history |
| San Juan Hill | Site of the most famous battle of the Spanish-American war, where Theodore Roosevelt successfully leads the Rough Riders in a charge against the Spanish trenches |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | Agreement when Japan agreed to curb the number of workers coming to the US and in exchange Roosevelt agreed to allow the wives of the Japenese men already living in the US to join them |
| Big Stick Diplomacy | 1)"speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far" 2) Known as a threat of military force to influence political events in other countries 3) Roosevelts corollary to it meant the US had the right to intervene in Latin America |
| Platt Amendment | Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got into trouble |
| The Influence of Sea Power Among History | book by Alfred Thayer Mahan |
| Open Door Policy | In 1899 John Hay wrote this which called for fair trade in China for all |
| Delome Letter | A private letter written by Enrique Depuy de Lome, Spainish Minister to U.S, critized President Mckinley call him "weak" and "a bidder for the admiration of the crowd" (or simply a coward) |
| Yellow Journalism | a styal that william randoulph and joseph pulitzer of the 1890's used melodrama romance and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers |
| USS Maine | Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War |
| Spanish-American War | war versus sapin "Splendid Little War" |
| Queen Liliulkalani | Queen that was removed from power of Hawaii and US took control |
| John Hay | Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt who pioneered the open-door policy and Panama canal |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by gaurenteeing loans to foreign countries. |
| William Howard Taft | president after roosevelt, first to make Dollar Diplomacy, pushed America back 4years |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States,, 26th president, known for: conservationism, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War |
| William Mckinley | 25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist |
| Minor C. Keith | provided financial services to the costa Rican people in return, he received land-leases, railroad lines and began exporting bannanas to the United States. |
| Sanford B. Dole | He took Queen Lilikualani's power away, and made Hawaii a republic, then annexed it to the United States. |
| Josiah Strong | a popular American minister in the late 1800s who linked Anglo-Saxonism to Christian missionary ideas. |
| Jose Marti | a journalist in Cuba who urged the United States to intervene in the Cuban Rebellion. |
| Valeriano Weyler | He was a Spanish General referred to as "Butcher" Weyler. He undertook to crush the Cuban rebellion by herding many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps, where they could not give assistance to the armed insurrectionists. The civilians died in deadly pestholes. "Butcher" was removed in 1897. |
| Dupuy de Lome | He was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley (called him basically usless and indecisive) The discovery of his letter strained Spanish-American relations, which helped initiate the Spanish-American War. |
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