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Benchmark 4 w/ Chapters 17&18 Flashcards

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What the Americans want to do to the Indians.

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They wanted to assimilate them .

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During the late 1800’s what was happening to a lot of Indians ?

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They were being forced to moved onto reservations.

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Free and cheap land with the combination of the new railroads led to ?

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The expansion of the west.

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Tariffs , railroads , open migration policies all help what ?

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To grow the economy .

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What does lassiez - faire mean ?

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Let them be , if big business is doing work properly don’t bother them.

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What is the elimination of competition of companies?

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Monopolies or horizontal integration.

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What did the Interstate commerce act and the Sherman anti trust act do ?

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Helped regulate railroad business.

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Who were the granger laws for and by ?

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Farmers .

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What did the election of 1896 deal with ?

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The issue of labor unions .

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What were farmers,Graingers, the IWW and populist for ?

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Farming reform .

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Who were scabs and what did they do ?

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Scabs were immigrant workers that were hired In place of workers that went on strike .

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What was a blacklist ?

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Where nobody would hire you because you were apart of a labor union.

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What was a yellow dog contract ?

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A contract you signed when you got a job promising you wouldn’t join a labor union.

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Organized labor supported what ?

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Unlimited immigration.

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Where did most immigrants come from ?

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Southern and Eastern Europe.

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Who started the federal reserve system ?

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Prez Wilson.

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What amendment gave women the right to vote ?

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19th

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What was the name of prez.Roosevelt’s plan ?

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The square deal

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What is a referendum ?

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Gave the people the ability to vote on bills brought on by ballot or petition.

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IWW workers were called what ?

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Wobblies

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What amendment authorized direct election of senators.

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The 17th.

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What is recall?

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The ability for the voters to remove public officials from office .

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What is initiative?

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A bill or law made by the people rather than the lawmakers on the ballot.

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What did the Hepburn act of 1906 do ?

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Try to regulate railroad process.

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What is the Payne-Aldrich tariff ?

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The Payne tariff lowered rates on goods (House )while the Aldrich tariff made fewer cuts but increased rates (senate)

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What was the FTC (Federal Trade Commission ) ?

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A watchdog agency to help investigate violations of regulatory statutes and corrupt business tactics .

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What did the 16th amendment do ?

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Legalized a gradual federal income tax

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What is an empire ?

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A group of states or countries under a single supreme authority under and emperor or empress.

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Imperialism ?

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The Policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political or military control over weaker territories.

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Who ruled Hawaii ?

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Queen lil

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Global Competition

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Desire for military strength
Thirst for new markets
Belief in cultural superiority

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What was our desire for military strength ?

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For the us to build up its own powerful military

Alfred Mahan pushed for the creation of new navy vessels to show our strength.

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What was our thirst for new markets ?

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We needed raw materials for factories and manufactured goods, American solution to the depression , unemployment and over production.

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What was the belief in cultural superiority?

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Social Darwinism , market-free competition would lead to the survival of the fittest with the racial superiority of whites.

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How did we get Hawaii ?

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Hawaiian sugar was duty free until the McKinley act came along and ended that, the sugar farmers and owners were enraged to in 1887 they called for HI to be annexed into the USA , which in turn for the annexation the us would be allowed to build Pearl Harbor. In 1891 queen lil was overthrown by Sanford Doyle , even though prez,Cleveland ordered that powered be restored he refused until they became a republic in 1959.

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How’d we get Alaska ?

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Purchased from Russia by William Seward for 7.2 million or 2 cents per acre.

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When was the Spanish American war ?

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1898

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Where was the Spanish American war caught ?

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In Cuba and the Philippines to get a naval base there.

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What was yellow journalism ?

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Taking a little truth and exaggerating it to make a point to urge action.

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Who was Jose Marti ?

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He organized Cuba resistance against Spain using an active guerrilla campaign and deliberately destroying American owned property

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Who was valeriano Weyler ?

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He was general sent fro. Spain to Cuba to restore order , and tried to crush the rebellion by putting the rural population into concentration camps , the media tries to make him look bad but he’s actually good.

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Why did the us go to war ?

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The de lome letter that was sent from de lome to general weyler calling prez McKinley weak.

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Who were the rough riders ?

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17k men sent to the battle of San Juan hill with Roosevelt .

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What did the Us do in the Philippines ?

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George Dewey , the war killed 4k Americans , 200k Philippinos , we set up a military base by force after sinking the Spanish.

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Who was Emilio aguinaldo ?

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The rebel leader of the Philippine war .

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What was the open door policy ?

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It was in 1899, whee the us wanted to prevent foreign powers in chins fro. Shutting out the united states in trading affairs.

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Who were boxers ?

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A secrete society formed by the Chinese to get rid of the “foreign devils “

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Nobel peace prize won by Roosevelt .

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He won the prize in 1906 for settling the dispute between Japan and Russia.

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The Panama Canal ?

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The French started it but failed terribly , then 50 years later we came back and asked Colombia if we could build one in panama but they said no so we helped panama gain their Independence so we could build the Panama Canal.

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The Monroe doctrine vs the Roosevelt corollary ?

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The Monroe doctrine said that European countries should stay out of Latin American affairs, the Roosevelt corollary was and addition to that saying that if they defaulted on their loans and disorder in LA the us and international powers would have to step in

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What kind of diplomacy did president Wilson believe In ?

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Missionary diplomacy - the united had the moral responsibility to deny recognition to any Latin American government It viewed as oppressive .

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What type if diplomacy did Taft use ?

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Dollar diplomacy - used government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people.

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What type did Roosevelt use ?

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The corollary, he said he would use military power and brute force to get things done in a complete and orderly way.

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Who was fransisco villa?

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A rebel leader in Mexico who opposed carranza’s provisional government and asked the united for help and lead revolts that killed Americans.

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Who was john j Pershing?

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He was sent by prez.wilson with 15k soldiers to capture Willa dead or alive , villa hid for a year and was never able to be captured, the us had other issues to deal with, WWI

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