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Honors U.S. History 2 Midterm
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11th Grade
01/18/2010

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Imperialism
Definition
domination of a strong nation over a weaker one.
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Procterate
Definition
the imperial power allowed the local rulers to stay in control and protected them against rebellions
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Alfred Mahan
Definition
- officer in U.S. Navy
- taught at Naval War College
- wrote Influence of Sea Power upon History, a book of his lectures
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William Seward
Definition
- Senator of NY
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Queen Liliukalani
Definition
Queen of Hawaii
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Joeseph Pulitzer
Definition
- Owned the newspaper "The World"
- used Yellow Journalism to describe Cuba
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Yellow Journalism
Definition
outrageous stories to attract reader to a newspaper
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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition
- Tafts policy that helped Latin American Industry to rise out of poverty and social disorder
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" Big Stick"
Definition
Roosevelt can do whatever he wants by showing the U.S. military power.
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John Hay
Definition
- Secretary of State
- supported the open door policy
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
- Roosevelt Corollary was added to it
- it said US would intervene in Latin America issues is necessary
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William Mckinley
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- signed the Platt Amendment
- it kept Cuba tied to the United states
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Spanish American War
Definition
- Began with the explosion of The Maine"
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The Maine
Definition
- A passenger ship sent by the US to pick up Americans in Cuba
- Exploded, and the US thought it was Cuba who exploded it on purpose
- Supposedly, the US was carrying weapons on it
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
- AKA Society of Harmonious FIsts
- destroy "foreign devils" and Chinese Christian Converts
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Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
- after McKinley was killed, he took over the presidency
- Big Stick Policy
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Sphere of Influence
Definition
area where a foreign nation controlled economic development
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William Howard Taft
Definition
Tried to win over the Filipinos by helping them with education, transportation and healthcare
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Bull Moose Party
Definition
- AKA Progressives
- Roosevelt's Party
-Roosevelt claimed himself as being fit as a "Bull Moose"
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Ida Tarbell
Definition
showed the world the scandals in the Oil Company.
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Definition
- Af American arrested for sitting in a White-Only railroad car
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Muckrackers
Definition
journalists who investigated political corruption
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Direct Primary
Definition
all party members can voted for a candidate to in the general election
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Referendum
Definition
allows citizens to vote on laws without going directly to the legislature
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Prohibition
Definition
Ban on alcohol
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Square Deal
Definition
Roosevelts policy to beleive in social darwinism and progressivism at the same time.
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Upton Sinclair
Definition
Wrote the Jungle which showed the issues with the meat packing industry
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New Nationalism
Definition
Roosevelts progressive ideas
- accepted large trusts
- protect women and children in labor forces
-compensation for those injured on the job
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Federal Reserve Act
Definition
- 12 national banks, gov supervised
- board set interest rates of nation
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Income tax
Definition
tax in earnings
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WEB Du Bois
Definition
founded NAACP
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16th amendment
Definition
allows income tax
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17th amendment
Definition
direct election on senators
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18th amendment
Definition
prohibiton of alcohol
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Robert La Follette
Definition
-Repub Governor
- pushed Direct Primary- all party members can vote for a candidate for general election
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Progressivism
Definition
- laws protecting workers
- regulated industry
- failed to address racial issues
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Womans Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Definition
- pushed for Prohibition of alcohol
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J.P. Morgan
Definition
- owned a large trust
- Railroad Holding Company
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Definition
outlawed certain practiced that restricted competition:
- forbade agreements that required retailers who bought from company to stop selling to another.
-no discounts on large purchases
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NAACP
Definition
National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
New Freedom:
- monopolies should not destroyed, but regulated
- for big business, against trusts
- ran against Roosevelt
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Arch duke of Austria Hungary
Definition
the First World War began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke
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Armistice
Definition
An agreed, temporary cease fire between opponents in order to discuss formal peace terms
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Fourteen points
Definition
- Treaty of Versailles
- Wilson had devised a 14 point plan that he believed would bring stability to Europe
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Scopes trial
Definition
Made the Butler Act Unconstitutional, the Butler Act was repelled
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Zimmerman telegram
Definition
- submarine warfare will be used
- from germany to mexico
- said mexico will gain all territory back that was lost
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Sussex pledge
Definition
- Passenger ships would not be targeted
- Merchant ships would not be sunk until the presence of weapons had been established, if necessary by a search of the ship
- Merchant ships would not be sunk without provision for the safety of passengers and crew.
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Lusitania
Definition
American boat with passengers was sank for no reason
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Cause of WWI
Definition
- Assassination of The Arch Duke of Austria Hungary
- alliances
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Allied powers of WWI
Definition
Belgium, Serbia, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania and the United States
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u-boat
Definition
German Submarine
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Teapot dome scandal
Definition
Albert Fall rented out government own property for personal profit
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Kellogg Briand pact
Definition
- also called the Pact of Paris
- was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy
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Isolationism
Definition
is a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism
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Assembly line
Definition
an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line
- model t
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Speakeasy
Definition
- underground bars
- illegal because of the prohibition act
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
Civil rights leader who fought to educate African Americans
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Great migration
Definition
movement of 1.4 million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930
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Emergency quota act
Definition
an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3%
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Marcus Garvey
Definition
founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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Flappers
Definition
The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
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19th amendment
Definition
prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex
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Harlem renaissance
Definition
- refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s
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