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What? Me? Harping? Neeeever =) ...and im not sure why mine are in bold but it won't let me fix it...help anybody? Dude, WHERE EFF ARE RACHEL'S AND DESTINY'S WORDS?
 * NORA** did her part. No harping on me, Kass! :)

Seward's Folly = alaska

Alfred Thayer Mann = Navy buff, big on imperialism, expansion lover

Russo-Japanese War = war between *gasp* Japan and Russia! Was over Manchuria and Korea...solved through the mediation of President Theodore Roosevelt yaay roosevelt! Treaty of Portsmouth = ended Russo-Japanese War

Jane Adams = a founder of the [|Settlement House] (le wikipedia) movement...HULLHOUSE...REFORM! AH!

Conservation Acts = Environment protection *T roosevelt

Margret Sanger = Birth Control Activist...yaaay! Look how kick ass she is. yay for women's rights! wooo margret!

Wilson's Connections to Imperialism = Majority of presidency spent on foreign affairs.

The Great White Fleet = U S Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from by order of Pres T Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battle ships. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power. (basically showing off)

Queen Liliuokalani = Last Hawaiian ruler...overthrown by American businessmen (this is the reason I used to not eat dole fruit! I was such a little activist :) )

Florence Kelly = reformer against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, children's rights. (Yet ANOTHER awesome person.) Newlands Reclamation act = project for building irrigation route for 17 western states

Trustbuster = T Roosevelt

De Lome = written by Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Minister. The letter wrote "... McKinley is: weak and catering to the rabble, and, besides, a low politician, who desires to leave a door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes of his party." ...basically mad the American public mad at le Spanish

Root-Takahira Agreement = recogniton of China as independent, Am + Japan = <3. Open Door policy

Niagara Movement = NAACP...Du Bois...black civil rights

Jacob Riis = Muckracker, photojournalists, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES

2nd trustbuster = Taft

USS Maine = maine sunk (prob accident)...spain blamed...WAR!

Rough Riders = 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. McKinley called upon these volunteers to assist in the war efforts. Brought fame to T. Roosevelt

Spanish American War = The **Spanish–American War** was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the US. struggles for independence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands included. US won quickly

Alice Paul = a spectacular women's suffragist leader. Paul was the original author of a proposed [|Equal Rights Amendment] (to the wikipedia!) to the Constitution... __National Woman's Party!__

Gentleman's Agreement = w/Japan... U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration or students, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U.S.

Lewis Hine = used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. child lover

John Muir = naturalist, worked w/T Roosevelt to preserve western forrests

FIGHTING BUH LAFOLETTE???????

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Big Stick Policy- Roosevelt’s foregien affairs policy- motto “speak softly and carry a big stick”. Took an aggressive approach to foreign affairs

Joseph Pulitzer- editor of the New York World newspaper. “expose all fraud and sham”. Was a mudraker

American Anti-Imperialism League- founded in 1898, opposed to America’s territorial expansion such as annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines

Direct Primaries- A procedure by in which the political parties nominations for public office were made by party members, not the political boss

Lincoln Steffens- Shame of the Cities, work published n 1904 that was a collection of mudraking articles in an attempt to expose public cooruption in many mjr cities

Initiative, referendum and reform- all ways to make the government more democratic

William Randolph Hearst- yellow journalist- The New York Journal

Yellow Journalism- Stories attempting to create public outrage and create anger

American Protective Association- Anti-Catholic society, members were usually Irish Protestants

Lochner v. New York- whether a law limiting the workours of a baker interferes with the bakery owner’s rights to make an employee contract

Hepburn Act- gave the Interstate Commerce Commission to power oto set maximum railroad rates

Upton Sinclar/ The Jungle- series of progressive books telling stories about factories and working conditions, lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Teller Amendment- The Untied States would take temporary possession of Cuba for the purpose of helping the country

Dewey and Manila- George Dewey lead the US in the Battle of Manila Bay, only one US death

Meat Inspection Act- toe government inspects food packaging to make sure it is healthy for consumption M udrakers Expose All The secrets Pure Food and Drug Act- law requiring labeling of ingredients and regulated the sale, manufacturing and production of food

The National Municapal League- objective- to improve people’s relations with the local government

Pendleton Act- made it unlawful to fire or demote employeesfor political reasons

Treaty of Paris 1898- ended the Spanish American War, Spain cedes the Phlippines to the US

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire- hundred of factory wirkers died during a fire when they were locked on the building

17th amendment- senators were to be elected by the popular vote

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