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American History
Dominant Culture I: Imperialism
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/25/2008

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Depression of 1893
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lingered for several years; second worse depression; mass unemployment; prices drop; impacted the working class culture the most; fueled the movement towards radicalism and unionization; symbol crisis
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Spanish American war
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conflict with Spain 1989; a fight with Spain and Caribbean and end of fighting in the Philippines; first foreign war
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"Men of Dartmouth"
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poem that turned into a song that shows the virtues of the young football players
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Civil Religion
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the US is gods special country in earth
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Came from an old family and was well off; sickly kid; decides to bulid himself up as an adult and becomes a boxer and works on a ranch in the summer; replicates the larger Victorian revitalization; pushy and hard man; goes around the country and told people the value of hard work and big families
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"Yellow Press"
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wanted to get Spain out of the new world and they pressured McKinley
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William McKinley
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The Philippines
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Spanish colony; Dewey captures it in a few days; American takes over political authority; had bad feeling towards the Americans because they thought that they were going to leave after Spain left
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Admiral George Dewey
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Captured the Philippines in a few days
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Strikes back at the Americans; send military force there; long and bloody war; win their independence after WW II
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"Rough Riders"
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recruited to join the army; were football players and cowboys
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William James
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opposed the war; believed the US had betrayed their own anti-colonial tradition
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Mark Twain
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Opponent of the war; thought that they should change the flag
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