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| Teddy Roosevelt pushed to build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama. It would greatly benefit American commerce and military capability. Columbia, who owned Panama, denied the request, so Roosevelt pushed Panamanians to revolt. 20 years previously, the French had tried and failed building the same canal due to malaria and yellow fever. |
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| The policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions. Reasons: Economic, belief the powerful country had a duty to spread their religion and cultured to "less civilized" people. Another reason was competition with other world powers. |
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| A British passenger ship that Germany sunk after Pres. Wilson told Germany to quit sinking boats travelling from USA to Europe. Pres. Wilson threatened to join the Allies if Germany sunk another American ship with their U-Boats...since they sunk Lusitania, the US entered the war. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast. The Union Pacific started uilding a rail line from Omaha, Neb., westward. The Central Pacific began in Sacramento, CA, and build eastward. They eventually met and formed the US's first T.R. |
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| A Nez Perce leader, whom refused to leave his people's territory (where Oregon, Washington and Idaho meet) in the 1860s, gold strikes brought miners onto their land. The government ordered them to move to a reservation in Idaho. Chief Joseph took his people north to Canada. Army troops followed close behind. CJ gained respect and admiration of many Native Americans. He eventually had to surrender |
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| Act that encouraged Native Americans to become farmers. Some tribal lands were divided up and given to individual native american families. it worked poorly. |
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| the belief that the US had the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean, across what is now the west half of America |
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| Passed in 1862. The law promised 160 acres of land to anyone who farmed it for 5 years. Goverment was encouraging farmers to settle the West. Gave poor easteners a chance to own a farm. by 1900, haf million americas had set up farms under the act. |
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| Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in the steel industry. His ieas on how to make money-andhow to spend it-had a wide influence. Bought out all rivals. bought all every phases of the steel industry. from mining iron ore to shipping finished steel. (vertical integration) combined all of his businesses in 1892 to make ________ Steel Company. |
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| a new way to make steel. enabled steelmakers to produce strong steel at a lower coast. as a result, railroads began to lay steel rails. also, manufacturers made steel everything. |
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| American Federal of Labor |
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| caught onto the labor movement. Samuel Gompers organized a new union in columbus, ohio. AFL was open to skilled workers only |
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| Factory with poor working conditions and sometimes young children working there. |
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| a settlement house where idealistic young women provided day nurseries for kids and organized sports and theater for youn people. taught english to immigrants and gave classes in health care. launched investigations inoto social and economic conditions in chicago. opened by Jane Addams. |
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| is any government activity designed to break up trusts or monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt is the U.S. president most associated with dissolving trusts. However, William Howard Taft signed twice as much trust-busting legislation began during his presidency. |
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| prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. |
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| was a United States federal law signed into law by President Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. |
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