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1892 - 1920
1892 to 1920 American history in the world etc blah blah blah
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Undergraduate 2
09/25/2012

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Racialist Theories
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Scientific claims of white intelligence over darker skinned peoples
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Rudyard Kipling
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British poet who believed it was the burden of the white man to uplift and enlighten "savage" peoples
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Josiah Strong
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The leading spokesman for anglo-saxonism in the united states
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Alfred T. Mahan
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Director of the Naval World College and leader proponent to the New Navy
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Reconcentracion
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Cuban leader's orders to the rural population to move to designated spanish organized areas
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Pulitzer and Hearst
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Major newspaper owners who were basically the inventors of muckraking and huge contributors to the yellow press
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John Hay
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Wrote the first notes for the open door policy
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The Open Door Policy
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China was fair trade for europeans, and american
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The Teller Amendment
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Stated that the U.S. could not colonize Cuba
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The Platt Amendment
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Despite that the US could not colonize, they had broad authority to intervene to preserve Cuban independence, and required that Cuba sell/lease land to the US Navy
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The Rough Riders
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Teddy Roosevelt's gang of scruffy veterans of police, army, etc, who fought the battle of San Juan hill and put Roosevelt in the American spotlight
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Anti-Imperialist League
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Argued that imperialism was un-American, thought Imperialism threatened the foundations of the country and colonization was wrong, as an ex-colony themselves
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Was America part of the Scramble for Africa, which took place after the Berlin Conference of 1885? That is, did the United States seek colonies in Africa?
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Who were the presidents of the Progressive Era
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Woodrow Wilson, Taft, Theodore Roosevelt
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How did powerful countries in the world justify taking over other lands?
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Anglo-saxonism, the belief that it Anglo-saxons were scientifically better than people of other races
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Our Country by Josiah Strong- What was the argument in this work?.
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Anglo-Saxons had a god-ordained mission to civilize and Christianize the world.
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