US CH 27-31
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- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History; the control of the sea is key to world dominance
- Theodore Roosevelt
- VP Under McKinley, Pres. when M. is assasinated
- George Dewey
- Commander of the American Asiatic Squadron
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Leader of the Filipino revolt against Spain, then America
- Imperialism
- Capture/colonization for the betterment of another nation (for political/economic/physical imperialism)
- USS Maine
- Feb 15, 1898; blew up in Havana Harbor
- Teller Ammendment
- provision that the US would give up Cuba after winning the Spanish/American War
- Rough Riders
- cowboy infantry under Lt. Col. Roosvelt and Col. Wood
- Treaty of Paris
- US gets the Philippines, PR, and Guam
- Platt Amendment
- Cuba agreed not to negotiate its independance; also US gets 2 bases (now 1, Guatanamo)
- William McKinley
- War proclaimed and decided to keep the PI
- Spanish American War
- Begins April 11, 1898 over Cuba
- Puerto Rico
- Attacked during the Sp/American War; ceded to the US
- Hawaii
- annexed in 1893, Cleveland withdraws, then annexes again in 1898
- William H. Taft
- Sponsored reform, trust busts, etc.
- John Hay
- Secretary of State under McKinley (Open Door Notes)
- Boxer Rebellion
- Chinese insurgetn uprising; 1900
- Yellow Peril
- Asian discriminatory term
- Open Door Notes
- China would be open to all and the American entites should be protected with equal fares, etc.
- Philippines Insurrection
- 1899-1903; failed
- Big Stick Diplomacy
- Harsh, strict rule
- Panama Canal
- canal waterway through Panama, Columba; required the overthrow of the government
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Pre-Emptive protection for Laitn American and Central-American Countries
- Russo-Japanese War
- Japanese invasion of Port Albert over Korea and Manchurian (R) posessions
- Portsmouth Conference
- J/R have a peace conference lead by TR, lead to his Nobel Peace Prize
- Great White Fleet
- Sparkling, white smoke-belching battleships
- Jacob Riis
- Danish immigratn who wrote "How the Other Half Lives." An account of native life in the NY slums
- Robert LaFollete
- Govenor of Wisconsin who ratified interests and regulated public utilities, used U faculty as experts
- Upton Sinclair
- wrote "The Jungle" which turned pbulic attention to food canning sanitation
- Initiative
- voters could direclty propose legislation themselves
- Referendum
- voters would vote for laws on the ballet checking the "bought" state legislators
- Muchrackers
- Young reporters fueled by Collier's, etc.; looking for the dirt the public loved to hate
- 17th Ammendment
- direct eelction of US senators
- 18th Am
- Prohibition of Liquor
- Elkins Act
- Vines for railroads who gave rebates and to the companies who accepted them
- Hepburn Act
- made free rides/coupons illegal
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Forty burned alive in fire, leads ot public outry and attention, factory labor laws and factory condition reform takes place
- Meat Inspection Act
- preparation of meat shiped over state lines would be subject ot federal inspection from corral to can
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of food and pharmaceuticals
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad
- Bull Moose
- the Progressive Party's mascot (New Nationalism)
- Woodrow Wilson
- Democrat sponsored governor of NJ (1910), who won the presidency in 1912 (New Freedom)
- Eugene Debbs
- Socialist candidate
- Pancho Villa
- Mexican crusador who killed Americans in hopes of spurring a war between Canenza and Wilson
- New Nationalism
- under Roosevelt, consolidaiton of trusts/labor unions, powerful regulatory agencies, social reform, and female suffrage
- New Freedom
- Under Wilson; small enterprise, fre entrepaneurship, and an unmonopolized and unregulated market
- Underwood tariff
- Reduced import fees
- 16th Ammendment
- allowed Congress to raise an income tax
- Federal Reserve Act
- 1913--Fedreal Reserve Board oversaw a national system of 12 regional banks, all owned privately, but with the final control owned by the Board. Federal Reserve Notes could be printed
- Federal Trade Commission
- 1914--Commission in regulating interstate commerece, curbed monopolies at the source---certain trade practicies: unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, and bribery
- Clayton Act
- Expanded Sherman Anti-Trust Act to include discrimination and interlocking directorates; exempted labor unions and ag. firms
- Central Powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria
- Allies
- France, Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy
- Lusitania
- Briitsh steamer sunk off the coast of Ireland, carrying 128 Americans (et al) an ammunition for the Br.
- Sussex
- French steamer sunk by the U-Boats prompted Wilson to threaten the discontinuation of diplomatic relations between the US and Germany
- Herbert Hoover
- Leader of the Food Admn. Turned to volutnary measures, no ration cards, and encouraged the nation through propaganda
- Warren Harding
- Sen. from Ohio, Republican, won presidential race and signalled the death of the League
- Zimmerman Note
- proposed German/Mexican alliance with promises of recovering AZ, NM, and TX
- 14 Points
- Abolished secret treaties, guar. freedom of seas, removal of eco. barriers, reduction of armamaent burdents, adj. of colonial claims, and the League of Nations
- League of Nations
- an international organization of Wilson which would provide a system of collective security
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Any criticism of the US gov't could be censored and punished
- Industrial Workers of the World
- poor laborers band together as sabeteurs of the private industries
- 19th Am
- American women gain the right to vote
- Bolsheviks
- Communist leaers in Russia who backed out form the war, leading German Soldiers to France
- Big Four
- Orlando (Italy), Clemenceau (Fr.), George (Br.), Wilson (US)
- Irreconcilables
- those who voted against Ledge's Ammendment (14 reservations) to the Senate
- Treaty of Versailles
- few of the original 14 pts., included the inclusion of the US within the League
- Al Capone
- Mobster who made millions go to the sale of liquor (others: prostitution, narcotics, protection $), convicted of tax evasion
- John Dewey
- Columbia professor who believed that the workbench was as important as the blackboard
- John Scopes
- Bio teacher who wanted to teach evolution in TN
- William Jenings Bryan
- part of the Scopes prosecution (died of stroke 5 days after trial)
- Clarence Darrow
- defense criminal lawyer for Scopes
- Henry Ford
- revolutionary car maker who could prodcue a car eveyr 10 sec., one-track gospel of standardization
- Charles Lindbergh
- aviator-hero whose son was abducted and killed, spurred the Lindbergh law, which made abduction in some instances elligible for the death penalty; first to cross the Atlantic
- Margaret Sanger
- open champion of the use of contraception (birth control measures)
- Sigmund Freud
- sexual repression responsible for major health problems and conditions
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "This Side of Paradise," told of flappers and their wooers
- Ernest Hemingway
- Farewell to Arms/The Sun Also Rises; reacted to teh Am. propganda to war with his WWI experience
- Sinclair Lewis
- Main Street---woman's unsuccessful war against provincialism
- William Faulkner
- Soldier's Pay: lookd at the characters from the psychological viewpoint
- Red Scare
- of 1919-1920, led to teh arrest of thousands of American "left-wingers"
- Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- 2 Italian atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers who were executed for killing paymaster and assistant
- KKK
- extremist unltraconservative group of nationalists (rather than night riders) with conservation views who wanted to keep the traditional American culture; broken up after a 1920 Congressional probe
- Immigration Quota Act
- 2% of the nation's population in 1890 could immigrate (vs. 3% of the 1910 census)
- Volstead Act
- 18th am. implementation which illegalized liquor (bathtub gin and home brew created)
- flappers
- "loose" ladies