Terms 131-140

Question 1

Hawaiian Revolution

Answer 1

Hawaii’s wholesale sugar prices plummeted as a result of the elimination of the duty-free status enjoyed by Hawaiian sugar. Facing ruin, the planters deposed Queen Liliuokalani in Jan 1893, proclaimed the independent Republic of Hawaii, and requested U.S. annexation. Hawaii was claimed as an American territory in 1898.

Question 2

Yellow Journalism

Answer 2

Deliberately sensational, often lurid style of reporting presented in bold graphics, designed to reach mass audience. William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

Question 3

Open Door Notes

Answer 3

Stated that all Euro nations and the US could trade with China

Question 4

Platt Amendment

Answer 4

Barred Cuba from making treaties with other nations; gave the US the right to intervene in Cuba to preserve independence, life, and property; and required Cuba to permit US naval stations on its territory

Question 5

Hepburn Act

Answer 5

Increased gov’t power to oversee the railroad rates and gave more power to the ICC. It had limited effect

Question 6

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 6

Restricted the sale of dangerous or ineffective medicines

Question 7

Muckrakers

Answer 7

Nickname given to young reporters of popular magazines. These magazines spent a lot of money on researching and digging up “muck,” hence the name muckrakers. This name was given to them by Pres. Roosevelt- 1906.

Question 8

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 8

The US would become the “police force” of Latin America

Question 9

Gentleman’s Agreement

Answer 9

Japan should stop emigrating its laborers to the US and the US would stop discriminating against the ones already there

Question 10

Eugenics

Answer 10

An effort to grade the races. Retarded and other “undesirables” must be sterilized. Madison Grant warned of racial “mongrelization” .