Vocab
President Roosevelt's plan for keeping the rich and powerful in check.
What is the Square Deal?
This act created national landmarks, monuments, and allowed the government to preserve state land for public use
What is the Antiquities Act?
Head of the forestry division of the Agriculture department. Advocated for rational use of natural resources.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
President Taft's foreign policy of replacing dollars with bullets. Wanting U.S. companies to invest in foreign countries and improve their economies.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Amendment that stated the United States wouldn't annex Cuba and was later circumvented by the Platt amendment bringing Cuba into the U.S. influence.
What is the Teller Amendment?
What is an insurrection?
Act that allowed the government to regulate water usage in the West.
What is the National Reclamation Act?
US Admiral that led a fleet of ships into Manilla bay to fight the Spanish in the Philippines
Who is George Dewey?
President Roosevelt's foreign policy of "speaking softly while carrying a big stick" of showing how strong the United states was while not jumping into conflict with other countries.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Volunteer cavalry led by president Roosevelt that with the help of the 9th and 10th cavalry regiments that defeated the Spanish the Battle of San Juan Hill.
What are the Rough Riders?
News papers that wrote sensationalized articles calling for the U.S. to go to war with Spain over the explosion of the USS Maine.
What is the Yellow Press?
Act that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission additional power
What is the Hepburn Act?
Filipino revolutionary leader that led the fight against the Spanish and then later against the Americans for independence.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
President Wilson's foreign policy of protecting human rights and providing opportunities to succeed where he vowed to never seek land from another country through war.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
Government organization that was created by Woodrow Wilson to prevent companies from becoming a monopoly.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Name of the fleet of 16 battleships sent on a goodwill tour
What is the Great White Fleet?
This act allowed the president to appoint the governor of Puerto Rico
What is the Foraker Act?
Revolutionary leader of the Cubans during the Spanish-American War.
Who is Jose Marti?
This policy by John Hay was meant to open up the Chinese markets for free trade and open to American Companies.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Rebellion in China fighting against the spheres of influence of European countries. The United States gets involved sending 2,000 soldiers to a multinational force to stop the rebellion.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
An area of a country where another country holds exclusive trading rights
What is a sphere of influence?
Act that allowed the US government to send inspectors into meat processing plants that shipped across state lines.
What is The Meat Inspection Act?
Mexican revolutionary leader that was wanted by President Wilson for killing Americans in Columbus, New Mexico.
Who is Pancho Villa?
This foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt made the United States the policeman of the Western Hemisphere and was meant to keep European influence out of the Americas.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
First attempted and failed by the French became a U.S. project under Roosevelt after sending warships to provide support to Central American rebels.
What is the Panama Canal?