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| Hearst and Pulitzer helped the overseas involvment movement. They used yellow journalism to attract young men to look into foreign exploits by describing the overseas adventures as manly and "dashing" |
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| Wrote articles describing the overseas involvement as manly and dashing. Through his yellow journalism he attracted the public's attention. |
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| Wrote articles describing the overseas involvement as manly and dashing. Through his yellow journalism he attracted the public's attention. Sent Remington to Cuba to sketch war scenes. |
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| Wrote "Our Country: It's Possible Future and its Present Crisis." The book described oversea nations as a place for new souls to be harvested. Strong believed in Anglo-Saxon superiority and encouraged Americans to spread their values and religion to overseas "backwards" people |
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| Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" He argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. He stimulated the naval race around the world. Many Americans joined in and called for an American-built isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific |
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| Cleveland argued that under the Monroe Doctrine, Britain was to stay away from Venezuela. |
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| When the McKinley Tariff raised prices on Hawaiian imported sugar, Americans wanted to annex Hawaii, but Liliuokalani strongly opposed being annexed. |
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| When Cuba rose up against Spain, they employed the scorched earth policy hoping to get US on their side against Spain. |
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| Spanish general during the Cuban insurrection. He killed many innocent Cuban civilians. This provoked the US congress to vote on joining Cuba against Spain |
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| The de Lome letter, Feb. 1898 |
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| This letter was published by Hearst in the paper. It stated that McKinley was and "ear-to-ear politician who lacked good faith." |
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| "Remember the Maine!" Feb. 1898 |
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| The Maine suddenly exploded in Havana harbor killing many navy soldiers. The Spanish were blamed for this, and cries of "Remember the Maine!" rose up as US citizens rallied to go to war with Spain |
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| McKinley's war message, April 1898 |
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| McKinley finally gave in to the publics desire to go to war. |
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| It stated that after Spain was removed from Cuba, the US will give Cubans their independence. |
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| After Roosevelt radioed him to attack the Phillipines, he successfully destroyed and captured a 10 ship Spanish fleet with no loss of American life. |
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| He was brought out of exile to help aid the Americans drive Spain out of the Phillipines. However, the later campaigned against the Americans for an independant Filipino nation. |
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| Hawaiian annexation, July 1898 |
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| Hawaii was annexed in order to set up a base for US warships to refuel. |
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| Lead the a fleet of US battleships to drive out Spanish commandor Cevera. |
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| Commanded by Col. Wood and organized by Roosevelt. They rushed at El Caney and San Juan Hill and defeated the Spanish soldiers there. |
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| Lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill and El Caney. |
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| Shafter landed here and found little opposition from the poorly organized Spanish army. |
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| It alone matched the four warships of Cevera. The US navy destroyed Cevera's fleet. |
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| The cruelty of the US army in the Phillipines caused many people to cry out against Imperialism. They argued that the US had no right to intrude on other nations. |
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| It stated that the newly acquired territories of the United States did not share the rights of the Constitution. |
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| He helped rid Cuba of yellow fever. |
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| It was designed to tie Cuba to the US. It forbade Cuba to form alliances with foreign powers |
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| It was a naval station promised to the US by Cuba by the Platt Amendment. |
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| Introduced the Open Door Policy in China |
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| It suggested that European powers respect Chinese rights and the ideal of fair competition. It was proposed by John Hay in order to protect American interest. |
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| A group of Chinese patriots rebelled to remove all foreigners from China. |
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| 6 months into his term, he was assassinated by an anarchist. This made TR president - what the Republicans feared. |
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| It was concluded withB Britain that the US could not exclusively control a canal cutting across North and South America. |
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| This allowed the US to construct and fortify a canal going across the Central American isthmus. |
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| After US assisted in Panama's revolt against Columbia, the PM of Panama agreed to allowed the US to widen the canal from 6 to 10 miles wide. |
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| The US assisted the revolt against Columbia in order to be allowed to build a canal across Panama. Lead by Bunau-Varilla. |
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| Col. George Washington Geothals |
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| He was able to find a way around all the labor problems in building the canal. |
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| He discovered the cause of yellow fever and actively worked to rid the canal area of mosquitoes who carried the disease. |
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| It was an extension to the Monroe Doctrine. Roosevelt believed in "preventive intervention." He stated under this corollary that the US was responsible for the financial safety of the Latin American nations. This made the US the "policeman of the western hemisphere." |
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| This was the first time the Roosevelt Corollary was put into action. The US took over management of the tariff collections in the Dominican Republic. Although this made the Dominican officials angry, overall, it helped the Dominican Republic out of their debt. |
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| Russia wanted to take Port Arthur and Japan saw this as a threat. Russia was badly beaten by Japan. |
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| The Japanese were running out of resources in their war with Russia. They secretly called upon Roosevelt to help sponsor peace negotiations. Both Russia and Japan felt cheated when Roosevelt proposed that Russia didn't have to pay indemnities and that Japan was to receive half of the island Sakhalin. |
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| San Francisco school incident |
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| The San Francisco school board barred Japanese children from attending school in order to free more space for whites. This caused a major uproar in Japan. |
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| It was an agreement that Japan will stem the flow of immigrants to California if the Japanese there were allowed to be given education. |
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| Roosevelt decided to show the US's power by selling the entire navy around the world as a display of power. |
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| Japan and the US promised to respect each other's holdings in the Pacific. They also promised to uphold the Open Door Policy. |
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| They fought against a variety of things such as monopolies, corruption, inefficiency and social injustices. Their main goal was to use the government as an agency of human welfare. |
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| He attacked the Standard Oil Company with his book "Wealth against Commonwealth." |
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| He attacked the newly rich with his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class." |
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| They were mostly European immigrants. They called for state socialism and were able to gain respectable strength at the ballots. |
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| The idea of using religion to address modern day issues. They called for better living conditions for the poor and supported progressivism. |
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| They were publishers that were intent on exposing the evils of society. They dug deep for dirt to reveal to the public. |
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| He launched a series of articles in "McClure's" titled "The Shame of Cities." He revealed to the public the corruption of the big businesses and the government. |
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| The published an excerpt on the evils of Standard Oil. |
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| He himself a successful specualtor, revealed the practices of his accomplices in "Frenzied Finance." He made many enemies through his book and died a poor man. |
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| He focused on the Black population of whom 90 percent still lived in the south and one-third were illiterate. He wrote the book "Following the Color Line." |
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| It was the idea of voters directly proposing legislation themselves. |
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| The idea was to place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people. |
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| This device allowed voters to remove faithless elected officials especially those that had been bribed. |
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| Used to counteract boss rule. |
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| It established the direct election of senators. |
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| Governor of Wisconsin. He fought to take power from the railroads and powerful corporations and return those rights back to the people. |
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| He was the Republican governor of California. He broke the grip that the Southern Pacific Railroad had on state politics. |
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| Governor of New York. He investigated the malpractices of gas and insurance companies and the coal trust. |
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| Florence Kelly (National Consumer's League) |
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| She was the first chief factory inspector of Illinois and fought for improved factory conditions. She took control of the National Consumer's League and called for female consumers to press for protection of working women and children. |
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| He persuaded the Supreme Court to protect women workers because women were physically weaker than men. |
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| Women that were locked inside a shirt factory all burned to death. This situation brought to attention the importance of laws regulating factories. |
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| She led the Womens' Temperance Christian Union. She was able to get some cities to pass "dry laws" which controlled or abolished alcohol. |
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| He was a reporter for the New York Sun. He revealed to the public the lives of the the poverty stricken in his book "How the Other Half Lives." His book deeply influenced a future New York City police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| He attacked promoters and profiteers in his books "The Titan" and "The Financier" |
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