Test Review 26-28 Flashcards
Rough riders gained fame
At the San Juan Hill battle
More deaths of Americans occurred due to this rather than bullets in the Spanish
Disease
Helped increase American sympathy towards Cuba
Yellow Journalism
United States Naval Ofc. remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American war
George Dewey
Planters staged a coup to over through this leader
Queen Liliuokalani
Puerto Rico, though U.S. citizens, couldn’t do what?
Vote for U.S. President
Black army; negro calvary
Buffalo soldiers
Trying to Americanize Indians and took away some of their rights
Dawes Act
Last time Indians will be able to violently resist
Battle of Wounded Knee
Gave away massive land for cheap and ended badly due to droughts
Homestead Act
Historian; wrote ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’
Frederick Jackson Turner
Reconciliation between the US and Britain, the new Anglo-American cordiality became a cornerstone of both nation form policies as the 20th century started
Great Rapprochement
Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war
Teller Amendment
Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain
Emilio Aguinaldo
Won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese war; led the rough riders
Theodore Roosevelt