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- alaska purchase
- purchased from Russia for 7.2 million
- minors
- came during the oil boom, it helped open up the homestead act
- federman
- massacred by crazy house coming out of his fort
- sioux indians
- biggest population of indians but divided into smaller groups
- homestead act
- Government sold 160 acres of land to pioneers age 21+ for $10. IN return pioneers built houses, grew crops, and lived there for at least five years
- radical republicans
- These were a small group of people in 1865 who supported black suffrage. They were led by Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. They supported the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during the war and after.
- Spanish American War
- an 1898 con flict between the united states and spain, in which the united states supported cubans' fight for indepedence
- Rossevelt diplomacy
- Europe has to stay out of American territory but Americans have the right in intervene in theirs
- Theodore Roosevelt
- 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War
- annexation
- the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
- 14th amendment
- 1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5 Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate (reject) confederate debts, nullifies the black codes
- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States, completed in 1869
- Alfred Mahan
- author that influenced sea power in history
- black hills
- mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
- red cloud
- Sioux chief who resisted white advancements
- crazy horse
- a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)
- reservation system
- introduced in 1870, forced nations to live on barren land, it confined people so they could not support themselves in their accustomed way. It has left to the institutional of this enforced segregation.
- Roosevelts policy
- speak softly but carry a big stick
- Cuba
- has the largest military base
- cowboys
- smallest of the group and worked for everyone
- imperialism
- a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
- USS Maine
- Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War
- the ghost dance
- where the indians tried to call back spiirts led by big foot
- little big horn
- the battle in which George Custer was killed by Indians
- sitting bull
- Chief of the sioux indians, he lead the victory of Little Bighorn
- farmers
- encouraged to settle in the homestead act
- Panama Canal
- a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)
- John Hay
- Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt who pioneered the open-door policy and Panama canal
- bosemen trail
- road through red cloud's territory that made life misersbale because they would kill all the people that would pass
- Enrique DeLome
- spanish embassedor wrote a letter to a friend referring to pres. McKinley as weak
- William Randolph Hearst
- An American newspaper magnate. He helped established "yellow journalism" as well as being part of the de Lome letter incident.
- George Dewey
- a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War