Go West!
The idea that it was our fate and/or God's plan for the US to extend all the way to the west coast (and beyond).
What is Manifest Destiny?
Western settlers and Native American tribes were in many conflicts over this.
What is land use/ownership?
Resource-rich property purchased from Russia.
What is Alaska?
Spanish-American War hero who later went on to become president.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The US helped Panamanians gain independence from this country.
What is Columbia?
Three reasons for moving West
What are:
farming, ranching, mining, religious freedom, adventure
The US government often forced native tribes to live on designated sections of land known as these.
What are reservations?
The US acquired this property after more and more Americans moved there and set up sugarcane plantations (they originally went their as missionaries).
What is Hawaii?
Justification to declaring war on Spain.
What is the explosion of the USS Maine OR the harsh treatment of the Cubans by Spain.
Civilian groups who would take the law into their own hands in order to create order out West.
What are Vigilante Committees?
Two hardships that settlers moving West had to deal with.
What are: getting through the difficult journey west, diseases, conflicts with native tribes, no law/government, weather that ruined crops, needed to be very self-sufficient because there wasn't much set up.
Law that forced Native American tribes who were living in the South to move west to "Indian Territory."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Reasons for imperialization (explain each).
What are:
God (to spread beliefs), Glory (to appear strong and capable of taking over others) and Gold (resources).
The Spanish American War began in the year ______ and lasted approximately ________.
What is 1898 and 15 weeks.
Name of Teddy Roosevelt's diplomacy (foreign policy).
What is Big Stick Policy?
Two types of towns related to mining.
What are boomtowns and ghostowns?
Tribe that refused to leave their home and move West...were later moved by force in an event known as the Trail of Tears.
Who were the Cherokee?
In the early 1900s, the US got involved in a revolution in Central America because...
What is, the US wanted to build a canal to improve trade routes? (Panama Canal).
The Spanish-American War instigated a follow-up war in this country.
What are the Philppines?
Roosevelt's warning to Europe to stay out of Latin America, because we wanted to control it.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Law that gave away 160 acres of western land to the head of each household in order to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
The battle that is considered to have brought the "Indian Wars" to an end (the last major conflict between the US government and a native tribe).
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
In order to keep China open for trade, the US proposed this policy, which ultimately resulted in this rebellion.
What is Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion?
The terms of the Treaty of Paris were (be specific):
The US acquired Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam and Cuba became a US protectorate (in other words, the US had a lot of say in what was happening in Cuba).
Who was president when the US annexed the Philippines? AND...what ultimately happened to this president?
Who is McKinley...he was assassinated.