Key People
Led the Rough Riders
No more tainted meat
Meat Inspection Act
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
Isolationism
Take other people's stuff
Imperialism
Father of the modern Navy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
People have to prove they are qualified for the job
Pendleton Act
type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers
Yellow Journalism
U.S. Battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor
USS Maine
Andrew Carnegie
propose a law by petition
Initiative
People who were opposed to American overseas expansion
Anti-Imperialists
Linked east to west...finally
Transcontinental Railroad
Started the Hull House in Chicago
Jane Addams
U.S. would be nice but use its military to fight if necessary
Big Stick Policy
extension of the Monroe Doctrine, police force
Roosevelt Corollary
Rough Riders, San Juan Hill
Buffalo Soldiers
Founded the NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
Like a good neighbor stay over there; or else
Monroe Doctrine
Gold on the outside, rotten on the inside
Gilded
a group of US warships which took a world tour from 1907-1909 to show the world that the US was an emerging power
The Great White Fleet (1907)