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AMH 2020 TCC Mikkelson Test 2 correctly answered already passed
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AMH 2020 TCC Mikkelson Test 2American Imperialism - correct answer ✔✔building the empire: money and power
purchased Alaska from Russia, 1867. "Seward's Folly."
Alfred Thayer Mahan - correct answer ✔✔In 1890, he wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
He was a proponent of building a large navy. He said that a new, modern navy was necessary to protect
the international trade America depended on and that control of the sea as the key to world.
Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔✔"survival of the fittest" poor are meant to be poor
Queen Liliuokalani - correct answer ✔✔embraces American and marries a while man. Forced out of
power by a revolution started by American business movements.
De Lome Letter - correct answer ✔✔Spanish Ambassador's letter that was intercepted and was
published by American newspapers (yellow press). It criticized President McKinley in insulting terms.
Encouraged war. Jingoes are very upset.
U.S.S. Maine - correct answer ✔✔"start" of the Spanish-American war; exploded off the coast of cuba
and it was blamed on spanish torpedoes; heightened by yellow journalists. Very few americans actually
on board
John Hay - correct answer ✔✔said the Spanish-American war was a "Splendid Little War". This is how
america viewed war until WWI
Rudyard Kipling - correct answer ✔✔wrote the poem 'white man's burden'. which showed attitudes on
race. to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands.
Teller Amendment - correct answer ✔✔going into the war. Created in 1898 essentially saying that the us
would fight to liberate then free cuba, not colonize to control them.
, Platt Amendment - correct answer ✔✔after the war. Saying that if Cuba does something we don't like
we can intervene.
Progressive Movement - correct answer ✔✔belief that average americans can make/change laws.
Experts in a field that can add to society
Theodore Roosevelt - correct answer ✔✔1858-1919. 26th President. Leader of Rough Riders. Increased
size of Navy, "Great White Fleet". Added Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine. "Big Stick" policy.
Temperance - correct answer ✔✔anti-alcohol/abstinence, most successful at this time
Suffrage - correct answer ✔✔Right to vote (15th Amendment)
Muckraking - correct answer ✔✔people who stir up drama..
Ida M. Tarbell - correct answer ✔✔Journalist of Standard Oil, exposed flaws (misuse of power) and
talked about how it is corrupt in the McClure's magazine (woman's magazine)
Upton Sinclair - correct answer ✔✔muckraker, wrote "The Jungle" which led to the meat inspection Act,
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Drug Act (1906) - correct answer ✔✔It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug's
packaging and that drugs could not fall below purity levels established by The United States
Meat Inspection Act (1906) - correct answer ✔✔largely in reaction to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the
law set strict standards of cleanliness in the meatpacking industry
Conservation - correct answer ✔✔Idea implemented by Theodore Roosevelt, led to national parks
Yosemite - correct answer ✔✔First scenic reserve created by federal action. Teddy Roosevelt, meant to
preserve animals, environment
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