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Civil War Legacies
Territory Purchase
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President
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It proclaimed ?
What is abolishment of slavery
100
In 1803, this territory was negotiated with Napoleon during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. The territory was acquired from France for 15 million (equivalent to $236 million in present day terms). This purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana Purchase
100
The message told Europeans to stay out of American developments, thus leaving the US as potentially the strongest power in the hemisphere.
What is Monroe Doctrine
100
It was signed on 28 June 1919. The treaty forced Germany to disarm, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is Treaty of Versailles
100
The principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie represent the rise of ***********
What is Corporation
200
In 1845 the United States annexed this territory, despite Mexican claims and the warning by Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna that this would be "equivalent to a declaration of war against the Mexican Republic." Congress approved the annexation of this territory on February 28, 1845.
What is Annexation of Texas
200
More than any other President, Polk pursued and achieved *******, a phrase coined by his fellow Jacksonian Democrat, John L. O'Sullivan, to express the conviction that Providence had foreordained the United States to spread its republican institutions across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
200
It was signed in 1848. The treaty called for the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico. US acquired Rio Grande boundary for Texas, California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world" President ********* 1796
Who is George Washington
300
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This is a historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The United States also paid $15,000,000 ($298,310,309 in 2005 dollars) for the purchase.
What is Mexican Cession
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Sometime known as Taft Doctrine, since it occurred mostly during the Taft's administration. It is the effort of the United States to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
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It was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a payment of $20 million from the United States to the Spanish Empire. The treaty was signed on December 10, 1898, and ended the Spanish-American War.
What is Treaty of Paris (1898)
300
He is famous for the Trail of Tears. The enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). the seventh President of the United States
Who is Andrew Jackson
400
Civil War Brought ********and Everyday Advances such as: - 15,000 miles of new telegraph lines - Mass production of canned food - Battlefield photography - Transcontinental Railroad - Can openers - Home-delivered mail - Premade clothing in sizes small, medium and large - Differently shaped left and right shoes
What is Technology
400
This territory was purchased from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre) on 1867, as a vital refueling station for ships trading with Asia. With the purchase of this territory, the United States added 586,412 square miles of new territory. Reactions to the purchase in the United States were mixed, with opponents calling it "Seward's Folly", feeling that U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, the primary American negotiator, got the worst of the bargain.
What is Alaska Purchase
400
It was a substantial alteration (called an "amendment") of the Monroe Doctrine in 1904. The new doctrine was a frank statement that the U.S. was willing to seek leverage over Latin American governments by acting as an international police power in the region. This announcement has been described as the policy of "speaking softly but carrying a big stick"
What is Roosevelt Corollary
400
The policy proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis; thus, no international power would have total control of the country. The policy called upon foreign powers, within their spheres of influence, to refrain from interfering with any treaty port or any vested interest.
What is Open Door Policy
400
He led US troop to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.His popular legacy set the stage for his Presidency. 12th President of the United States
Who is Zachary Taylor
500
The number of industrial establishment rocketed after civil war with cheap labor because increased *****, great rail system, government grants, low taxes, and protected market.
What is immigration
500
In 1853, United States purchased a strip of land along the U.S.-Mexico border for $10 million (equivalent to $283 million in present day terms), now in New Mexico and Arizona. This territory was intended for a southern transcontinental railroad. It also aimed to reconcile outstanding border issues between the US and Mexico following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican–American War of 1846–48.
What is Gadsden Purchase
500
The policy's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America under the FDR administration. It also reinforced the idea that the United States would be a “good neighbor” and engage in reciprocal exchanges with Latin American countries.
What is Good Neighbor policy
500
It was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). Also known as the Transcontinental Treaty. It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. It came in the midst of increasing tensions related to Spain's territorial boundaries in North America vs. the United States and Great Britain in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
What is Adams–Onís Treaty
500
First US President of 20th Century.
Who is William McKinley