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20 Cards in this Set
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what was the white man's burden? |
duty to take care of others, it is their job to go to countries and teeach them religion and tre. have to be taught about god |
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imperialism |
when strong countries dominate weak countries |
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what is manifest destiny? |
idea that god wanted white poeple to go about spreading white culture. culture religion |
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social darwinism |
strong countries dominate the weaker ones, more advanced societyy controls less advances.
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U.SS Maine what happened to it how did it start war? |
The american ship was in havana it was blown up, thought spanish people blew it up, a lot of people died. |
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how did william randolf heast contribute to the spanish american war?
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In his newspapers he told lies to make people beleive spanish blew up ship. made public angry with spain, headlines provoked people. |
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who were the rough riders/ what war? |
part of spanish american war, cavalry made up of cowboys recruited to fight in the war. volunteers |
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who lead the rough riders? |
theodore roosevelt |
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name the four countries that the USA got from spanish war |
puerto rico, cuba, Philippines, guam PASS THE COLD GUACAMOLE PLEASE |
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describe how the usa treated philippines |
U.S killed over 200,000 filipinos, took away freedom, dominated them. no longer independent. |
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why was hawaii important strategic location? |
its a good stopping over point in the pacific. had pit stop, could not be beat, close to japan. dominate pacific |
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what did we do to colombia so we could build panama canal? |
gave panaam u.s naval support to scare off colombia, bought strip of land for cheap. colombia dominated panama. |
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monroe doctrine |
U.Sa would fight any countries that tried to take over any countries in north or south america. now american turf. defended area from all others |
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roosevelt corollary |
in charge of countries and defend them, no one could disobey |
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explain speak softly and carry big stick |
biggest kid in school dont need to get in fight. USA doesnt need to fight jsut need to let them know who is in charge. fear and controlling neigbors |
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taft's dollar diplomacy |
control with money, loan money and then gain some control, manipulate them with money. withold or give money rather than fear |
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woodrow wilson moral diplomacy |
didnt like imperialism, didnt want to control others just wanted to have trade relationships |
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two arguments for imperialism |
offered new frontiers for us to conquer, helped us grow stronger, have stable countries around us |
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two arguments against imperialism |
goes against: "liberty for all", work on our own problems in the usa first. was raist. cost u.s.a. too much money |
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what was man in the arena speech about? |
it is not the cirtic who counts, if you arent actually participating you cant criticize, made mistakes but at least he was out there trying his best. |
