US History March Notes

yellow journalists

The ________ were especially effective in pushing the U.S. into the war after the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.

The United States

________ was expanding westward, while acquiring quantities of farmland and making high returns in agriculture. ________ would have to wait to fully industrialize.

Du Bois

________ believed that black Americans had to demand their social and civil rights or else become permanent victims of racism.

Washington

________ believed that African Americans had to achieve economic independence before civil rights.

African Americans

________ must fight every day for the rights given to them in the Constitution.

Black people

Washington believed that African Americans had to achieve economic independence before civil rights. ________ must tolerate discrimination while they proved themselves equal to white people.

Spanish American War

The ________ made the United States the dominant imperial power in Latin America because the war let the US put a puppet government in place in Cuba and gain control of Spain's remaining colonies; Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.

Du Bois

________ believed in social equality.