Chapter 6 History Test Review

Imperialism

a country attempt to use military, economic, social, or religious forces to overcome another country .

What was said about England?

“The sun never sets on the British Empire.”

A.T. Mahan writes a book and does what?

* gets read by Roosevelt
* is about oceanic trade and the Panama Canal

Yellow Journalism:

written about sex, crime, and violence to get viewers

Cuban Revolution was against:

Spain

Valerino Weyler is the

buthcher

What was written about?

Cubans put into camps.

Police Presence at Havana

U.S.S. Main (explodes and blames Spain)

After the explosion,

the US declares war (north and south fight together)

Battle of Manilla Bay

* Spanish are easily defeated
* 1 dead

Roosevelt takes credit for

Win at San Juan Hill

Spanish-American War

* 3 months and 5000 casualties
* Cuba, Guam, Philipines, Puerto Rico

American Empire

1. large military
2. outsourcing
3. companies move overseas
4. racism

Rough Riders were

a military unit on horseback that charged San Juan

William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph Pulitzer

“William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal, and his arch-rival, %%Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World%%, are credited with the creation of yellow journalism.”

War in Philippines

* 3 years to subdue a revolt in the Philippines
* undeclared and away from home
* led by Emilio Aguinaldo

How many died in Philippine War?

60,000 Philippines killed

The Philippines were a part of the US until

January 1, 1946

US made camps like

the Spanish against Cubans

The War ends with

the capture of Emilio

Mckinley, president, is

popular and makes the US an empire but dies.

Roosevelt becomes president and is

imperialistic

Great White Fleet

big ships go to other countries ports.

Big Stick Policy

“always have a plan”

Bad Neighbor

against Latin America

Panama Canal

prices of goods will drop

Treaty of Portsmouth

ends Russian-Japanese War and Roosevelt gets the Nobel Prize

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Schools allow Japanese Americans and limit immigration

Progressivism

embrace of government (liked by populists)

Ida Tarbell

journalist who wrote about Standard Oil (Rockefeller Monopoly)

Muckraker

exposes truth

George Wearing

wrote about sanitation and begins sewer system to dispose of caca

Galveston Hurricane

leads to the creation of the US Commission System to put the city back together

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

fire breaks out and traps many people which will lead NY to rewrite labor laws

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

caused the Food and Drug Act to label foods and meat inspections.

Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive President)

will create Hepburn Act, Trust-busting, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

Square Deal

breaks up monopolies

Gifford Pinchot

tied himself to trees to experience and makes friends with Roosevelt

* becomes head of Forestry Dept.

Conservation

using land sustainably to preserve it for future generations, rather than allowing it to be exploited and lost forever.

Payne, Aldrich Tariff

way to make revenue (allowed by Taft) and splits the parties

William Howard Taft

unwillingly becomes president with a judicial mindset

Who calls out who and gets fired?

Pinchot fights over land and calls out Taft to get him fired.

Taft does what?

undoes everything that Roosevelt did

Roosevelt believed in

the big stick policy

Taft believed in

Dollar Diplomacy

Election of 1912:

* big business supports Taft
* Commons support Roosevelt
* party splits
* Bullmore Party is a progressive republican party

Roosevelt gets shot but

lives and continues to campaign

Woodrow Wilson

**Underwood Tariff, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act**

Underwood Tariff

lowers tariff

Federal Reserve Act

feds control money which controls interest rates and hazards to borrowing

Clayton Anti-trust Act

protects labor unions and allows collective trade bargaining

Roosevelt creates

Hepburn Act which stops railroad corruption

* child labor
* enforcement
* fair rates, no pods

Reason 1 for WW1

Jackie Fisher renovates the English Navy (Germany vs. England)

* Droughnought = SUPER SHIP
* A.T. Mahan wants to rule the world and oceans

Reason 2 for WW1

France is defeated in 1871 and divides two possible allies

* Germany seizes territory

Reason 3 for WW1

Austria-Hungry has too many ethnic groups which want independence

* Serbia just gained independence.

Reason 4 for WW1

Alliances between France and Russia (secret)

Franz Ferdinand

killed and starts WW1

Mobilization

calls men to war

Schlieffen Plan

attack on France which illegally enters Belgium

When Germany enters Belgium

England enters war.

After the Schlieffen Plan fails,

Trench Warfare is created.

New technology:

machine guns, tanks, poison gas, airplane (dog fighting), U-boats, propoganda, and artillary

Lusitania

spotted by German U-boat and torpedoed which kills 128 Americans (yet America stays neutral)

English Propoganda

wins over Germany’s

blockade v. u-boats

U-boats are secret and blockades block entrance

Election of 1916

Wilson’s wife dies and remarries however he still wins

Russia leaves war due to

Bolshevic Revolution

America enters war because of

unrestricted submarine warfare

Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy

14 points (collective security for World) but is ignored

Crucified Canadian

false

Selective Service Act

draft training of men with few supplies

Creole Committee

propoganda by George Creole which sells the country on the war a little too well

Herbert Hoover

* Ford Administration says was is voluntary
* ex. meatless monday

Espionage Act

says evading draft is illegal

Sedition Act

can’t publish certain things (works because country is scared)

Shueke Act

“freedom of speech can be limited in times of clear and present danger.”

Great Migration

AA leave south for war jobs in north

Massive Demographic Move

north for jobs and racial tension

German breakthrough

Germany will sue for peace (based on 14 points)

Stab in the Back Theory

believed by German military so military betrays

Versaille Conference

peace conference to end war

* Wilson brings 14 points
* hate and revenge against Germans

Germans will allow

inflation to pay for war debts