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AMH 2020 TCC Mikkelson Test 2
American Imperialism - correct answer ✔building the empire: money and
power
purchased Alaska from Russia, 1867. "Seward's Folly."


Alfred Thayer Mahan - correct answer ✔In 1890, he wrote The Influence of
Sea Power upon History. He was a proponent of building a large navy. He
said that a new, modern navy was necessary to protect the international trade
America depended on and that control of the sea as the key to world.


Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔"survival of the fittest" poor are meant to
be poor


Queen Liliuokalani - correct answer ✔embraces American and marries a
while man. Forced out of power by a revolution started by American business
movements.


De Lome Letter - correct answer ✔Spanish Ambassador's letter that was
intercepted and was published by American newspapers (yellow press). It
criticized President McKinley in insulting terms. Encouraged war. Jingoes are
very upset.


U.S.S. Maine - correct answer ✔"start" of the Spanish-American war;
exploded off the coast of cuba and it was blamed on spanish torpedoes;
heightened by yellow journalists. Very few americans actually on board


John Hay - correct answer ✔said the Spanish-American war was a "Splendid
Little War". This is how america viewed war until WWI

, Rudyard Kipling - correct answer ✔wrote the poem 'white man's burden'.
which showed attitudes on race. to bring order and enlightenment to distant
lands.


Teller Amendment - correct answer ✔going into the war. Created in 1898
essentially saying that the us would fight to liberate then free cuba, not
colonize to control them.


Platt Amendment - correct answer ✔after the war. Saying that if Cuba does
something we don't like we can intervene.


Progressive Movement - correct answer ✔belief that average americans can
make/change laws. Experts in a field that can add to society


Theodore Roosevelt - correct answer ✔1858-1919. 26th President. Leader
of Rough Riders. Increased size of Navy, "Great White Fleet". Added
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine. "Big Stick" policy.


Temperance - correct answer ✔anti-alcohol/abstinence, most successful at
this time


Suffrage - correct answer ✔Right to vote (15th Amendment)


Muckraking - correct answer ✔people who stir up drama..


Ida M. Tarbell - correct answer ✔Journalist of Standard Oil, exposed flaws
(misuse of power) and talked about how it is corrupt in the McClure's
magazine (woman's magazine)

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