Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control.
What are reservations?
100
Federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
The principle of American foreign policy invoked by Secretary of State Olney to justify American intervention in the Venezuelan boundary dispute.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Valuable naval base acquired by the United States from the Hawaiian government in 1887.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
Term for the sensationalistic and jingoistic pro-war journalism practiced by Hearst and Pulitzer.
What is yellow journalism?
200
Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance, that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200
What was the first organization to attempt to provide services and opportunities for Western farmers?
What is the Grange?
200
American battleship sent on a "friendly" visit to Cuba that ended in disaster and war.
What is the Maine?
200
John Hay's clever diplomatic efforts to preserve Chinese territorial integrity and maintain American access to China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
200
Proverbial symbol of Roosevelt's belief that presidents should engage in diplomacy but also maintain a strong military readiness to back up their policy.
What is the "big stick?"
300
Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
300
Third political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans?
What is the Populist party?
300
Site of the dramatic American naval victory that led to U.S. acquisition of rich, Spanish-owned Pacific islands
What is Manila or Manila Bay?
300
Anti-foreign Chinese revolt of 1900 that brought military intervention by Western troops, including Americans.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
300
Questionable extension of the Monroe Doctrine that declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances.
What is teh Roosevelt Corollary?
400
General term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
What is the long drive?
400
American-imposed restriction written into the constitution of Cuba that guaranteed American naval bases on the island and declared that the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Ammendment?
400
Colorful volunteer regiment of the Spanish-American War led by a militarily inexperienced but politically influential colonel.
Who are Rough Riders?
400
War concluded by Roosevelt-mediated treaty that earned TR the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
400
Diplomatic understanding of 1907-08 that allowed Japanese-American children to attend California schools in exchange for Japan's curtailment f further Japanese emigration to the United States.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
500
The theory that the availability of the frontier lessened social conflict in America by providing economic opportunities for eastern workers.
What is the Safety Valve Theory?
500
Large U.S. naval force sent on a peaceful but highly visible voyage to Japan and else where in 1907.
What is the Great White Fleet?
500
Supreme Court cases of 1901 that determined that the U.S. Constitution did not apply in all territories under the American flag.
What are the insular cases?
500
Agreement between the United States and the revolutionary government of Panama granting America the right to build a canal.
What is the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty?
500
Amendment to the declaration of war with Spain that stated the United States would grant Cubans their freedom.