APUSH Period 7 A+B

Farmers and factory owners needed bigger market

Aimed to rally Latin America nations behind U.S. leadership

Cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial Spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economic interests in Cuban plantations and railroads.(scorched earth policy as well)

Americans sympathized with Cubans bc they were underdogs and US had investments in Cuba and traded with them

A ship stationed near Cuba which exploded on February 15, 1898. The explosion was blamed on the Spanish, and provided a reason for starting the Spanish-American War. Evidence to the contrary was ignored in the rush to War

As Americans were preparing for war with Spain over Cuba in 1898, this Senate measure stated that they would give Cubans their freedom after defeating Spanish(although some were skeptical of this).

A United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, U.S. naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines

Volunteers, mostly western cowboys

American and Spanish negotiators met in Paris

Came alive when they wanted to fight McKinley's expanisionist moves

Imperialism was costly and unlikely to turn a profit

gave the US direct control over and power to set up a government in Puerto Rico

These were court cases dealing with islands/countries that had been recently annexed and demanded the rights of a citizen. These Supreme Court cases decided that the Constitution did not always follow the flag,

forced into Cuban Constitution. Cuba could not make treaties with other nations; US had right to intervene in Cuba; US naval bases on Cuban land

Assumed they would be granted freedom after war

US deployed 125,000 troops to fight the guerilla tactics there

became governor of Phillipines in 1901 and later called them his little brown brothers

A series of letters sent in 1899 by US secretary of state John hey to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia, howling for equal economic access to the China market for all states and for the maintenance of the Tarrant Oreo and administrative integrity of the Chinese empire.

A group of Chinese known as the Boxers

International relief, China had to pay Indemnities ( Large sums of money to foreign nations.)- Foreign troops in Beijing, USA pushed "Open Door Policy", China modernized army and Government, New subjects in Chinese schools- English, political science, Physical sciences

Replaced a assasinated McKinley

The Span-Am war reinvigorated interest in a canal to protect Puerto Rico, Phillipines, and Hawaii

Gave US free hand to build Canal

Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred against Columbians. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal.

Update of Monroe Doctrine

Russia wanted access to ice-free ports of China's Manchuria

Roosevelt promised that Japanese students would be integrated into California schools if Japan stopped its flow of unskilled labor to America.

Sent around world

Pledged both powers to respect each other's territorial possessions in Pacific

Said society couldn't afford luxury of limitless "let alone" policy

Promoted a brand of progressivism based on christianity

Popular magazines dug deep for dirt people loved

The movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation. It fought to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights of women and other groups that had been left behind during the industrial revolution.

Militarists-TR

A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.

Place laws on ballot for final approval by people

Would enable voters to remove corrupt officials beholden to lobbyists

A government printed ballot of uniform size and shape to be cast in secret that was adopted by many states around 1890 in order to reduce the voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public.

Established direct election of US senators

Louis D. Brandeis persuaded Supreme Court to accept laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of harmful effects of factory labor on women's weaker bodies

Voided NY's law establishing ten-hour day for bakers

Organization founded in 1874 to fight against alcohol abuse

Control of corporation:

Heavy fines imposed on railroads that gave rebates to coporations and on shippers that accepted the

This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods.

Appalled public with description of disgusting unsanitary preperation of food products

Preperation of meat shipped over state lines was subject to federal inspection

Prevent adulteration and mislabeling food and pharmaceuticals

Deser Land Act: Fed gov sold arid land cheaply on condition that purchaser irrigate soil within three year

Enlarged power of presidency