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John Muir
His efforts had led Congress to crte Yosemite National Park in 1890. Muir convinced U.S government to get involved in forest conservation. He impacted people like Theodore Roosevelt in enviornmental decision-making. -
Spanish American War
Conflict between the United Staes ans Pain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in UsS acquisition of territories in the weatern Pacific and Latin America. The war orignated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. -
Florence Kelly
Kelly velieved women were hurt by unfair prices of goods they had to buy to run their homes. So in 1899, she founded the Natinoal Consumers League. NCL gave specal labels to goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions. and urged woment to buy them and avoid products that didn't have those labels. -
Alfred T. Mahan
His is a military historian and an officer in the United States Navy. He played a key rle in transforming America into a naval power. He argued that hte US would need to acquire foreign bases where American ships could refuel and gather supplies. The US eventually expanded and modernized its navy. By the 1900s, the US had the 3rd larges navy in the world! -
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxers killed foreign missionaries and besiged the foreign diplomats' district in Beijing. European, American, and Japanese troops was sent to the Chinese capital to quash the Boxer Rebellion. After putting down the rebellion, European poers compelled China's government to pay money to repair damage caused by the rebellion. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He became president of the United States when he was only 43 years old. He busted bad trusts and was once a vice president but McKinley was assassinated so he became president. His programes were collectively called the Square Deal. It tried to keep wealthy from taking advantage of small businesses and the poor. -
National Reclamation Act
Congress passed this Act, which gave federal government the poewr to decide where and how water would be distributed. The government will build and manage dams that would create reservoirs, generate power, and direct water flow. -
Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone is a 553 swuare mile loced within the Republic Panama. When reservoirs were created the asure a steady supply of water for the locks, those lakes were inclued within the Zone. -
Meat Inspection Act
In 1906, Upton Sinclair publlished "The Jungle." Sinclair described the filthy, unhealthy conditions in meatpacking plants revolted the public and infuriated th President. Roosevelt urged Congress to pass the Meat Inspection act the same year. The act provided federal agents to inspect any meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing lants. -
Drug Act
The Drug Act banned the shipment of drugs that are harmful and the misslabeling of drugs. The FDA monitors companies to make sure people aren't harmed by the substances. Before drugs can be sold, it has to be tested and approved by the FDA. -
Pure Food Act
This act placed the same controls on other foods and on medicines. It banned interstate shipment of impure food and the misslabeling of food and drugs. The Food and Drug act monitor s companies to make sure people are not hurt by dangerous substances or dishonest labels. -
Great White Fleet
The president won congressisional support for a new force of navy ships, known as the Great White Fleet. Roosevelt sent this armada of 16 white battleships on a good will curise around the world. The voyage demonstrated America's increased military power to the world. -
NAACP
The springfield riot got the attention of some white reformers. They acknowledged the need to help African Americans to protect their lives, win the right to vote, and secure their civil rights. They joined with leaders of the Niagraa Movement to form the NAACP. It aimed to help African Americans to be physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, and socially free from insult." -
William Taft
Taft became governor of the Philippines in 1901. He had large ambitions for helpoing the islands recover from the rebellion. He was president in 1909. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft hoped to achieve these ends by reying less on the "big stick" and more on dollar diplomacy. As taft commented in 1912 he looked to subsitute dollars for bullets. the policy aimed to increase american investments in businesses and banks throughout Central America and the Caribbean. -
Federal Reserve Act
Wilson pused Congress to pass this Act. This law palced national bandks under the control of a Federal Reserve Boark, which set up regional banks to hold the reserve funds from commercial banks. It protects the American economey form having too much money end up in the hands of one person, bank or rection -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson created an oppirtunity form Democrats and their candidate to win the white house. He became president in 1913. Wilson outlined his aim to proved more opportunities for smaller businesses. -
Poison Gas
It ws probably the most feared of all weapons in WW1. Poison gas was indiscriminate and could be used on the trenches evene when no attack was going on. Poison gas attack ment soldiers having to put on crude gas masks and if these were unsuccessful, an attack could leave a victim in agony for days and weeks before he finally succumbeed to his injuries. -
Austrian Archduke
He was a Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia. His assassination in Sarjevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers and the Allies of WW1 to declare war on each other. He died on June 28, 1914 -
Neutrality
In Auguest 19, 1914 Woodrow Wilson adressed Congress and made public the US policy of neutrality. During his address he warned US citizens against taking sides in the war for fear of endagering the wider US policy. -
Lusitania
When a German U-boat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania offf the coast of Ireland. German officals correctly claimed that the ship was carrying ammunition and other contraband. Americans protested that an unarmed and unresisting ship should not be sunk without firt being warned and provided with safty for its passengers. -
United States Declares War
Zimmermann note propsed an alliance with mexico, stating that if the US declared war on Germany, Mexico should declare war on the US. -
Armistice
The armistice between Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting of the first WW1. It marked the victory for the Allies and defeat for Germany. -
18th Amendment
It forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the US. the amendemtn had been passed largely on the strength of rural votes. -
19th Amendment
The Congress approved the 19th amendment which states that right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." -
League of Nations
It was an association of countries intended to bring aabout world peace and co-operation. The US didnt not belong to the LEague, the plan for it was originated by President Wilson, who thougth the wold was civized enough to find other methods of settling disputes besides war.
