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| How did whites try and disfranchise black Americans? |
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| Black codes and Jim Crow laws; they feared that blacks would take over. |
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| Laws that separated blacks from whites. i.e. bathrooms, theaters, ballrooms, etc. |
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| Plessy v Ferguson supreme court case |
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| A man who was 1/8 black was kicked off the white section of the train because of his "nappy" hair. Truly defined "separate but equal" |
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| What role did Ida B. WElls play in trying to avert racial violence? |
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| She wrote a paper about injustice and presented an anti-lynching bill, which got vetoed |
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| Who was Booker T. Washington? |
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| A former slave who wanted to teach blacks to elevate their status through hard work. He formed the Tugskee Institute. |
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| Black advocate, who unlike Washington, thought that blacks should forcefully fight for their rights. |
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| What role did James Buchanan Eads play in bridge building? |
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| He makes the diving bell - caisson able to build supports because of this. |
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| What was the building of the Brooklyn Bridge like? |
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| Started by John Rueling, finished by his son, shows power of New York. |
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| What caused cassion disease? |
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| Going down to fast underwater, causes too much pressure on the lungs. |
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| Who was responsible for improving and perfecting the elevator? |
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| Imperialism: The economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker nation. Big with England, France and Germany. |
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| A stronger nation allows local rulers to stay in control of their nation but the stronger ation is there to protect them from any rebellions or invasion. In exchange the weaker nation listens to what the stronger nation says. |
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| What warning did Albert J. Beveridge send to Americans? |
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| We need to find new markets for American goods |
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| How did Social Darwinists view imperialism? |
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| Belief that whites from England are better |
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| Who came up with the idea of Anglo-Saxionism? |
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| What invention spurred the growth of the skyscraper? |
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| What was the belief of Josiah Strong? |
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| God loves hard workers and divine commission |
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| Why did he US want to Annex Hawaii? |
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| We wanted the crops (pineapple) and major port |
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| How did the McKinley tariff aid Hawaii? |
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| Hawaiii didn't have to pay it and made lots of money off of it. |
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| Describe the role of Queen Liliuokalani |
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| She was the queen but she is put in imprisonment and is forced to abdicate the throne. |
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| What is the name of the organization that promotes cooperation among nations in the western hemisphere today? |
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| List the three International Crisises that threatened the US. |
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| Germany and the Samoa Islands, Chilean Crisis, US backed Venezuela |
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| Name the book that had promoted the increase of the US navy. |
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| "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1600-1783" -Alfred T. Mahan's |
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| An aggressive nationalism |
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| Who were the newspaper editors that promoted Yellow Journalism? |
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| William Randolph Herst and Joseph Pulitzer |
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| Define "Yellow Journalism" |
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| People that wrote about wars and rilled the nation up to fight in them |
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| Who was the first Civilian Governor of the Philippines? |
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| What was the similarity between the American occupation of the Philippines and the Spanish occupation of Cuba? |
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| They both just took it by force without permission and both believed that they had a rigt to take it. |
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| List the three terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898) |
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| 1. Cuba would be a free and independant state, 2. US would annex Guam and Puerto Rico, 3. Gave spain $20 million for the Philippines |
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| What were the terms of the Foraker Act |
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| It made Puerto Rico an insular territory |
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| List the options for Puerto Rico |
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| List the four terms of the Platt Amendment |
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| 1. Cuba can't make any treaty that would weaken their independence, 2. US has right to protect Cuba, 3. Cuba had to allow the US to buy or lease the space for a military base, 4. Cuba had to keep debt to foreign nations low |
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| What were the reasons behind the Open Door Policy with China? |
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| China is losing power, Japan gets Manchuria, Russia is afraid of Japan |
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