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16 Cards in this Set
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The fact that the U.S. Government took foreign policy more seriously during the 1890's indicates a _____ ________.
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Paradigm Shift
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Long term causes of the Spanish-American war.
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Closing of the frontier
trade production strikes tariffs nationalism navalism |
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Recite 3 key statistics that tell the story of US industrial growth.
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Exports tripled
% of world trade doubled Industrial output doubles |
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In what ways was McKinley the first "modern" president?
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McKinley devised new communications and had operational and mobilizational control.
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In the United States the press presented Spanish General Valeriano ______ as a fiendish butcher of the Cuban people.
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Weyler
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Pro-war sentiment grew in the United States after the press printed the ______________ letter and the Spanish were accused of blowing up the U.S.S. _____ in Havana Harbor.
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Dupuy deLome
Maine |
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The ____ amendment to the war declatation stated tha tthe US would not seize control of Cuba when the war was over.
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Teller
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On May 1, 1898 Admiral George _____ sailed into _____ Bay, The Philippines , and destroyed the Spanish Fleet. In the meantime, US naval forces clamped a ______ around _____ and transported the army's __ thousand man V corps to the island. The Spanish sent another fleet under Admiral Cervera to reinforce Cuba but US warships _______ it.
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Dewey
Manila blockade Cuba 17 destroyed |
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The charge of Theodore Roosevelt's _____ Riders up _____ Hill was supported by the all black 9th and __th calvary and two regiments of black ______. The heights were taken and the Spanish surrendered but disease killed more than _____ soldiers. Roosevelt wrote, "We are within measurable distance of a terrible military ______."
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Rough
Kettle 10 troops 5,000 disaster |
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The Treaty of _____ (1899) ended the Spanish- American War. The US acquired _____ ______ in the Caribbean, and in the Pacific received Guam and the 5,000 islands known as The _______.
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Paris
Puerto Rico Philippines |
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Emilio _______ hoped the US would grant the Philippines independence like it did Cuba. This did not happen. The US landed troops and defeated Filipino forces in 1899. Now it became a guerrilla war. __ thousand US soldiers became casualties; as many as two _____ thousand Filipinos died. Fighting ended in 1902 when Captain Edward Funston ________ Aguinaldo.
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Aguinaldo
20 hundred captured |
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Despite the suppression of the Philippine Insurrection above, the US did many good things. Governor-General William Howard ____ declared his intention to prepare the Philippines for independence. ______ was offered to guerrillas in exchange for laying down their arms. Schools, roads, and a ____ were built. To give the Filipinos voice in the administration of the islands, the US permitted the Philippine ________ Party. Congress also appropriated $7 million to buy land from the _______ church and sell it back to Filipinos on _____ terms.
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Taft
amnesty mint National Catholic easy |
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Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Gompers, Andrew Carnegie, W. James, and D. Howells were called __________ becuase they opposed US annexation of the Philippines.
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anti-imperialists
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A 1901 COngressional act known as the _____ Amendment transformed Cuna into a "protectorate" of the United States, meaning the US controlled Cuba's relations with the external world.
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Platt
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The Foraker ACt (1900) annexed ______ _____ but did not immediately give the people US _________. Also, the island's sugar growers paid a ______ to sell in the continental US because influential Congressmen wanted to protect the sugar ____ industry. The people of this island elected their own governor starting in the year ____ but the _____ rate remained high.
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Puerto Rico
citizenship tariff beet 1947 poverty |
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The ________ Notes circulated by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 requested European powers to respect Chinese territorial integrity. The policy suggested growing US ______ about winning in the China market without an exclusive colonial zone of its own.
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opendoor
confidence |
