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Imperialism And Discrimination Flashcards

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What is the name of the policy of taking colonies and building an empire?

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Imperialism

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What is the name of the policy of staying out if foreign affairs?

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Isolationism

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How did the US acquire Alaska?

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Purchased it from Russia

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When did Hawaii become a part of the US?

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1898

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Who wrote an influential report recommending a powerful navy was needed to become a world power?

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Alfred Mahan

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Name the US ship that sailed to Cuba to observe and the exploded in the harbor of Havana?

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USS Maine

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Who captured the Philippines when the war began?

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George Dewey

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What is the name of the group led by Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba?

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Rough Riders

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What did the Teller Amendment do?

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Guaranteed Cuban Independence

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Roosevelt said the “speak softly and___________”

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Carry a big stick

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Where did the US want to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific?

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Panama / Columbia

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What is the name of the theory that the US will be the only nation to intervene in Latin America?

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Roosevelt Corollary

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What were the letters to world leaders about China called?

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Open Door Policy Notes

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Who was the Chicago architect who pioneered the use of skyscrapers?

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Louis Sullivan

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What improvement did Frederick Olmstead bring to NY?

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Central Park

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Who made the first flight and when?

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Wright Brothers in 1903

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2 methods used to deny voting rights to African Americans

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Literacy tests

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What Supreme Court case made segregation legal?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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What make was given to the laws which officially segregated society?

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Jim Crow laws

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What AA leader stressed an industrial education?

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Booker T Washington

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Place of higher learning established to AA learn a vocation?

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Tuskegee Institute

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What AA leader wanted full civil right?

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WEB Du Bois

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Us will use financial policies to influence politics in Latin America

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Tafts dollar diplomacy

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