Ch 15-18 (possible essays and missed questions) Flashcards
How did the Venezuelan border dispute and the Great White Fleet demonstrate growing American power?
(include facts, dates, and people; pg. 312; 324-325)
Page 312, 324-325
Venezuelan Border Dispute -
- late 1894
- Venezuela and British colony of Guiana fought over the boundary.
- US tried to enforce the Monroe Doctrine by themselves.
- Venezuela asked Grover Cleveland to send someone to help.
- Richard Olney from US went to negotiate to settle the dispute on behalf of Venezuela.
- Britain protested, but US was to powerful to ignore.
- Britain suggested that the US be their partner in foreign affair.
Great White Fleet
- Late 1907
- Demonstrate American military strength to the world
- President Roosevelt sent them on a 14-month cruise around the world
- to show specifically Japan that we have power.
- 16 white battleships and 12 other supporting craft
- to Demonstrate American naval power
How did John Dewey harm American education?
include facts, dates, and people; pg. 334-335
Page 334-335
- John Dewey (1859-1952)
- He was considered the Father of Progressive Education.
- He went to Germany where they were teaching Evolution.
- He brought evolution back to American and it was taught in American schools.
- He was an atheist.
- He emphasized permissiveness in the classroom and that children should be allowed to do their own things.
- Kids weren’t getting the eduction that they needed.
- It teaches the wrong ideas to future generations.
- It led to the breakdown of academic and moral standards in American Schools in the later half of the 20th century.
How did the automobile transform American life?
include facts, dates, and people; pg. 348-350
Page 348-350
- 1908 to 1924 the price of a car dropped from $850 to $260.
- 1913 the Ford Motor Company started
- 1908 to 1927 - Ford sold over 15 million cars
- Henry Ford invented the assembly line which allowed him to produce cars more quickly and efficiently than before.
- Because of this the Model T was a car that was affordable to the average person in the US.
- Model T = Tin Lizzy = only black
- The automobile had a great impact on the average citizen.
What national organization of farming families did Oliver Kelly form?
The Grange
Who was the most popular poet in the 1920s?
James Whitcome Riley
What president was assassinated because of the spoils system?
Garfield
What president put the Pendleton Act in to law?
Arthur
Famous Apache chief?
Geronimo
What opened the West to settlement?
Homestead Act of 1862
What act required people to pass a test to work in civil service?
Pendleton Act
The socialist union leader who was jailed over the Pullman Strike?
Eugene Debbs
What national leader was criticized over statements he made in the Atlanta Compromise?
Booker T. Washington
What famous hymn writer wrote “Blessed Assurance”?
Fanny Crosby
Who was the Moody of the South?
Sam Jones
What act gave the right/money for the US to go to war with Spain?
The Teller Resolution
The Commodore in the Pacific (took the Spanish Fleet in Manilla Harbor).
George Dewey
Someone who seeks to dominate a country.
Imperialist
Doctors that discovered the cause of malaria and yellow fever.
Reed and Finley
What piece of legislation started irrigation projects in the West?
Newlands Reclamation Act
Who was the president that supports dollar diplomacy?
Taft
The president’s friend who started the Sierra Club.
John Muir
What compromise solved the problems of Japanese students in America?
Gentleman’s Agreement
What treaty eliminated England from the Panama Canal project?
Hayes-Ponsfoot Treaty
Who won the election of 1912?
Woodrow Wilson
Who won the election of 1908?
Taft
What movement brought reforms in government and businesses between 1900 and 1920?
Progressive Movement
Give an early leader of the Progressive Movement?
Bob La Follette
What political tool gives the voters the power to remove someone from office?
Recall
What do we call people that can only see the bad and not the good?
Muckrakers
Who wrote several articles attacking the Standard Oil Company?
Ida Tarbell
Which president suffered greatly from the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Harding
The Spanish American War grew out of a conflict on what island?
Cuba
What did the US pay for the Philippines?
$20 million
Who was the Lone Eagle?
Lindburg
What war resulted in Teddy Roosevelt winning the Nobel Peace Prize?
Russo-Japanese
