US 9 Turn of the Century
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- Bully Pulpit
- using the presidency to influence legislation
- Share cropping
- economic form of segregation
- Upton Sinclair
- author of “The Jungleâ€
- Ida B. Wells
- – opposed to lynching
- Grandfather clause
- – an example of political segregation & discrimination
- China
- – site of the Boxer Rebellion
- Roosevelt Corollary
- – an extension of the Monroe Doctrine
- Joseph Pulitzer
- – newspaper editor who practiced yellow journalism
- Prohibition
- – a progressive movement to improve the moral character of the nation
- Phillipines
- – site of an insurrection that killed thousands of people
- William McKinley
- – was assassinated before Teddy Roosevelt took office
- The Great White Fleet –
- symbolized the US as a world power
- DeLome letter –
- mean spirited letter printed in the newspaper – angered Americans
- Seward’s Folly
- – Alaska
- Cuba
- – made an American protectorate by the Platt Amendment
- Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel prize for negotiating peace between what 2 countries?
- Japan & Russia
- What territory was under turmoil because of rebellion by sugar and pineapple growers?
- Hawaii
- W.E.B. Dubois
- – black leader believed that a liberal arts education would raise up African Americans
- – black leader who believed that technical education was the best way to raise up African Americans
- Booker T. Washington
- Square Deal
- – Teddy Roosevelt’s political agenda
- USS Maine
- – battleship destroyed in Havanna Harbor
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- – law that required the truth in product labeling
- Pancho Villa
- – Mexican rebel who conducted raids into the US
- Carry Nation
- - prohibition leader known for smashing up bars with a hatchet
- What is Imperialism?
- Why do countries practice it?