IB History of the Americas Vocab -American Imperialism

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

A large number of railroad workers went on strike because of wage cuts. Was an example of how government always sided with employers over workers in the Gilded Age.

Long Depression

Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, and Mellons

The Monroe Doctrine (1823)

US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force. Example of US imperialism in Latin America that Roosevelt tried to justify

Herbert Spencer

"Survival of the fittest"; Social Darwinism between societies and cultures

Social Darwinism

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

Josiah Strong

He thought Anglo-Saxons were developed to dominate and that as a "duty of the superior race"; thought Christianity was the means by which progress was possible

Gospel of Wealth

This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

ideas on naval warfare and the importance of sea-power in making the US successful; wrote "The influence of Sea Power upon History"

Teddy Roosevelt

Fredrick Jacksons Turner

had the frontier thesis which thought that the US was regenerating because of the frontier and it was bc of the frontier that this was why we had democracy, individualism etc.

Queen Liliuokalani

the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests