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Imperialism Expand
1865-1914
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Homestead Act | 1862. Gave land to those who settled there and agreed to live there for a certain amount of years. |
| Seward's Folly | 1867 Purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire. |
| Transcontinental Railroad is completed | 1869 at Potenary Point where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies' tracks met up. |
| The Battle of Big Horn 1876 | Americans vs. Sioux tribes |
| 1887 Dawes severalty Act | outlawed tribes and gave the native americans land to americonize and become farmers. |
| 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee | The last Battle with the Sioux tribes using the US's 7th Calvary |
| Census of 1890 | Announced that there was no more frontier, that all the land has been settled on. |
| "influence of sea power upon history" published 1890 | influenced america to desire land overseas in the Caribbean (hawaii, cuba, Philippines) |
| Cuban War for Independence 1895 | Americans helped because radicals were attacking american property and had hard camps. |
| de Lome letter 1898 | insulted President McKinley and called him weak. |
| 1898 the sinking of The Maine | got american help in the Spanish War |
| Treaty of Paris of 1898 | Ended the Spanish-American war, giving Guam, Cuba, Philippines , and Puerto Rico to the US. |
| Insular Cases 1901 | Discussed whether the constitution flows the flag (to countries the US acquires?) resulted in a NO |
| Platt Amendment 1901 | Defined US's relationship with Cuba, establishing conditions for the removal of troops from Cuba. |
| Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty 1903 | negotiations to building the Panama Canal |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Amendment to the Monroe Doctrine saying that it was the US's right to intervene to stabilize the economy of small states. |
| Panama Canal 1904-1914 | joined the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean |
| William Randolph Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer | The publisher of a newspaper that produced exaggerated stories about the events in Cuba in order to sell more. he practiced yellow journalism. |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | established the significance of the frontier in american history theory |
| common wealth | "republic" formed for common good controlled by a stronger nation |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Roosevelt's policy to lend money to nations in need |
| Imperialism | seeking land around to expand empires power |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism |
| Moral Diplomacy | Woodrow Wilson's policy to help other nations through exercise of economic power |
| opend door policy | provided for open trade with china |
| Protectorate | country that deals with another country's natural affairs and protects it militarily |
| rough riders | 1st US voluntary calvery |
| Safety Valve | the idea that there was always room to change and opportunity out in the frontier |
| white man's burden | responsibility to bring democracy to other nations |
| yellow journalism | publisher's strategy of exaggeration of the truth to sell more copies of newspapers. (hearst and Pulitzer) |
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