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| 6729060741 | Original Discovery of the Americas | 10,000 years before Columbus, some estimate 40,000 years | 0 | |
| 6729069640 | Beringia Theory | Water levels dropped expanding large masses of land connecting Asia to North America. Nomadic hunters followed the bridge across and became ancestors of the first people. | 1 | |
| 6729072488 | Mayas | A Native American people, living in what is now Mexico and northern Central America, who had a flourishing civilization from 300AD to 800AD, when they were conquered by the Spanish. They are known for their astronomical observations, accurate calendars sophisticated hieroglyphics, and pyramids. | 2 | |
| 6729086418 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 3 | |
| 6729089205 | Incas | BUILT THE CAPITAL OF THEIR EMPIRE, CUZCO, IN THE ANDES MOUNTAINS IN WHAT IS NOW PERU. THEY CARVED THE LAND FOR AGRICULTURE AND BUILT ROADS AND CITIES. *Potatoes are key* | 4 | |
| 6729110936 | Extensive trade, crops provide stable food supply, calendars based on scientific observation | common things among the Mayas, Aztecs, and incas | 5 | |
| 6729122616 | North American Cultures | Respected land, did not believe they owned the land but lived on it with the others, 400 tribes, 20 languages | 6 | |
| 6729134745 | Why come to america??? | improvement in technology- better ships and navigation, compasses, mass printing, sectant, map making, gunpowder religious conflict- wanting to spread different religions expanding trade- finding shorter route, economic motivation developing nation- states- need stability, thriving economy and defense | 7 | |
| 6729166474 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.got money from spain | 8 | |
| 6729177069 | The Colombian Exchange | Europeans learn about: beans, corn, sweet and white potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, syphilis Americans receive: sugar cane, blue grasses, pigs, horses, wheel, iron implements, guns, germs (smallpox and measles) and transfer of plants by accident | 9 | |
| 6729209408 | Treaty of Tordesillas | A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | 10 | |
| 6729217222 | Bartolome de Las Cassas | -hero - Spanish priest -wanted equal rights for natives | 11 | |
| 6740809027 | New Laws of 1542 | Las Cassas saying enslavement must end!! | 12 | |
| 6740816179 | Valladolid Debate | Las Cassas tried to free natives **** but Juan Gines de Sepulveda wanted to enslave them and won | 13 | |
| 6740831905 | English and Natives | English were nice at first then tried to get rid of them native population lowered from disease and being pushed of the land | 14 | |
| 6740845331 | New England Colonies | Rhode Island- founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom, because puritans banished him Connecticut- Thomas Hooker couldn't practice Puritanism in England and there was no democracy in Massachusetts so he led his congregation to religious freedom Massachusetts Bay- William Bradford + Pilgrims (1620) John Winthrop + puritans (1630), they opposed the church of England and wanted religious freedom, 1st winter half of them died | 15 | |
| 6740899415 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1st sign of independence and constitution, allegiance to the colony rather than the king | 16 | |
| 6740915900 | Slaves | started in 1610 | 17 | |
| 6740932864 | How did the settlement of the English colonies give rise to unique economic, political, and social conditions that defined an emerging American identity? | People were tired of having no say in parliament and democracy was born | 18 | |
| 6740948994 | How did the need for labor in the colonies give rise to chattel African slavery? | There wasn't enough people to farm the land and there was too much land and not enough pay for workers, so they resorted to slaves | 19 | |
| 6740964864 | 1607 | Jamestown | 20 | |
| 6740967818 | 1754 | French and Indian War | 21 | |
| 6740973212 | Plymouth | Separatists (1620) didn't want to be with people who were not "chosen" John Calvin = predestination Mayflower Compact- signed document saying majority rules and all laws matter *sign of democracy* 1st thanksgiving = celebration of 1st winter survival | 22 | |
| 6741017442 | a city upon a hill | Massachusetts bay colony, wanting to be the perfect purified church John Winthrop = 1st governor | 23 | |
| 6741027654 | Roger Williams | kicked out of Ma Bay because he wanted natives to get compensation for losses founded Rhode island | 24 | |
| 6741035522 | Anne Hutchinson | banished to Rhode island for spreading predestination | 25 | |
| 6741049953 | Jacob Leiser | took over south for 3 years | 26 | |
| 6741053079 | Peter Zenger | freedom of the press | 27 | |
| 6741059228 | Feudal Estates along the Hudson | little society along the Hudson | 28 | |
| 6741105818 | Maryland Act of Tolerance | Catholic Haven form Lord Baltimore | 29 | |
| 6741144653 | Mercantilism and Dissent | Colonies get protected by England England takes everything from colonies in return Economy is ruined by control and can't do the things they want | 30 | |
| 6741173006 | The Navigation Acts | 1650 regulated colonial trade and added many taxes | 31 | |
| 6741183337 | Salutary Neglect | until 1763 England didn't pay attention to the colonies and were not enforcing any laws | 32 | |
| 6741209088 | First Continental Congress | Carpenter's Hall, sent demands to the King | 33 | |
| 6741215199 | Second Continental Congress | Pa State House/Independence Hall, declaration of independence | 34 | |
| 6741224846 | Declaration of Independence | Based off of writings of Thomas Pain, J. Locke, Common Sense, the idea of power to the people, and the king is a tyrant Signed even thought signers could be killed and many faced harsh consequences from the British | 35 | |
| 6741256907 | Louisiana Purchase | Jefferson thought it went against his strict constitutionality and it cost 15 million | 36 | |
| 6741280456 | Burr Conspiracy | Aaron Burr and federalists tried to separate from US, it failed but Hamilton challenged a duel and was killed Burr arrested for treason in 1806 and tried in Richmond Va 1807, judge was biased and not enough witnesses = freed Burr Jeffersonians very mad | 37 | |
| 6741327941 | Marbury vs. Madison | Midnight Judges Mess Marshall rejected case because the judiciary act of 1789 was unconstitutional, resulted in idea of judicial review | 38 | |
| 6752291306 | Impressment and Embargo Act | 6,000+ men were impressed from England alone (the shark) in response Jefferson said we would not trade with anyone, people hated it often called "oh grab me" | 39 | |
| 6752313036 | USS Chesapeake 1807 | British fired at close range killing 3 Americans and wounding 18 4 deserters were dragged away Jefferson could have taken us to war but he knew we were weak in military Americans very angry | 40 | |
| 6752337641 | Embargo Act 1807 | Jefferson's solution to impresment, but he over estimated their dependence on trade unconstitutional forbade all goods in US to be exported new England very upset, talks about secession "O Grab Me" & "Go Bar 'Em" & "Damn bargo" repealed March 1st 1809 3x more costly than war Forced Americans to make things for ourselves | 41 | |
| 6752391147 | Non- Intercourse Act | took place of embargo act opened trade with the world except England and France | 42 | |
| 6752431225 | Was Jefferson true to his strict constitutional beliefs? | No Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act | 43 | |
| 6752445993 | Great Britain Embargo Act Reaction | Factories that depended on cotton were hurt really bad so a petition was signed by 20,000 to just give in Orders of Council were suspended 2 days before the war of 1812 and it was too late | 44 | |
| 6752478622 | Macon's Bill No. 2 | 1st to give in (England of France) gets to trade with america, the other does not France gave in to see England in a bad place | 45 | |
| 6752495286 | War of 1812 | 2nd war for independence West: 2 Shawnee brothers (Tecumseh and Prophet)- tribes fighting William Henry Harrison- forced out Tecumseh's head quarters, Tippecanoe Nov 7 1811 Tecumseh killed 1813 at Battle of Thames, along with the dreams of Indian Confederacy Andrew Jackson- "Onto Canada" & "Onto Florida" | 46 | |
| 6752504534 | Why fight Britain rather than France in War of 1812? | -just as many maritime offenses -Republicans were attached to France -visibility of British impressment and arming Natives -tempting prize of Canada | 47 | |
| 6752523127 | Causes of War of 1812 | - Orders in Council (Impressment) - Embargo Act of 1807 -USS Chesapeake -Non-Intercourse Act -Macon's Bill No. 2 -this generation didn't have a war yet, young hot heads (war hawks) Henry Clay "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights) | 48 | |
| 6752595170 | Mr. Madison's War | really at war with new England and England Ne's sent money to British War of 1812 | 49 | |
| 6752612063 | Flagship Niagara | turned around with cables to deal with a crushing blow can fire cannons any direction used 1st in Lake Champlain Thomas Macdonough | 50 | |
| 6752627583 | Hartford Convention | New England trying to secede 1814 makes US not a unified nation | 51 | |
| 6752634534 | USA Emerging Nation | we better our relationship after war of 1812 | 52 | |
| 6752640815 | War Heroes of 1812 | Jackson and Harrison | 53 | |
| 6752665944 | HENRY CLAY'S "AMERICAN SYSTEM" 1824 | 1. strong national bank, easy credit 2. more roads and canals to knit US together 3. protective tariff | 54 | |
| 6752684588 | Tariff of 1816 | 20-25% not strong enough to do anything, but a bold start | 55 | |
| 6752687276 | Madison | states rights vetoes 1817 bill for 1.5 million to build new roads | 56 | |
| 6752696213 | Treaty of Ghent | signed Christmas Eve 1814 John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay sent to make peace agreement to stop fighting *no mention of grievances, Indian menace, search and seizure, Orders in Council, impressment, or confiscations* tie "not one inch of territory ceded of lost" | 57 | |
| 6752728653 | New Orleans 1814 | happened after Treaty of Ghent Jackson becomes hero of the West | 58 | |
| 6752746305 | Second Great Awakening | influence reform movements (prison, temperance, women and antislavery) | 59 | |
| 6752757583 | Transcendentalists 1830s | everyone has an inner light to put themselves with god individualism Ralph Walter Emerson- slavery critic Henry David Thoreau- "on the duty of civil disobedience" influenced Ghandi and Dr. King | 60 | |
| 6752792399 | American Colonization Society 1817 | Lincoln in favor of send slaves back to Africa too expensive | 61 | |
| 6752803544 | William Lloyd Garrison | The Liberator - newspaper wanted the North to succeed violent abolitionist | 62 | |
| 6752815738 | Sojourner Truth | escaped from slavery, on trial to get her children from slavery emancipation and women's rights "ain't I a woman too" helped recruit black's regiment in civil war | 63 | |
| 6752865501 | Wendell Phillips | "Golden Trumpet of abolition" | 64 | |
| 6752872071 | David Walker | radical abolitionist "appeal to the colored citizens of the world" - bloody end | 65 | |
| 6752883583 | Frederick Douglas | escaped slave orator writer editor of The North Star us minister to Haiti Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas | 66 | |
| 6752900927 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | -very emotional -300000 copies in Britain -1st hand experience, very personal -makes north want abolishment of slavery -written by Harriet Beecher | 67 | |
| 6752923079 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | Illinois 1837 killed by a mob after the 4 times his press was destroyed BC he is black | 68 | |
| 6752934191 | Nat Turner Rebellion | spread panic throughout the south in the 1830s started in Virginia and killed plantation owners and freed slaves created fear ---> 200 blacks killed | 69 | |
| 6752955405 | Temperance | mostly in North picks up momentum after civil war but WW1 really boosted it because of drunken mean and abuse in the home 1918- 18th amendment depression ends it with the 21st amendment | 70 | |
| 6752977750 | Dorothea Dix | committed her life to improving the conditions of the criminals and the insane made 1st public insane asylum in Lancaster civil war superintendent of nurses | 71 | |
| 6753001160 | Manifest Destiny | Idea that we were destined by God to populate the West and take democracy with us comes with racial superiority ideas | 72 | |
| 6753016325 | Frederick Jackson Turner Thesis 1893 | "the significance of the frontier in american history" Us owes survival to democratic tradition and the rise of the west not to more conservative roots in the east | 73 | |
| 6753037197 | California | Polk wanted it for fertile valleys and San Francisco Bay boundary problems with mexico, BC Texas was mexico's Mexico would not let US buy Cali | 74 | |
| 6753064103 | Jimmy Polk's Little War | May 9th 1846 asks congress for war bloodshed already started on April 25th 1846 Abe Lincoln's "spot resolutions" - we have no reason for war | 75 | |
| 6753087682 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Feb. 2 1848 | US gets Texas US pays 15 million and assume 3250000 in claims Calhoun convinced senate not be greedy for Mexico US got Texas to Cali Brings slaves to the front of politics | 76 | |
| 6753109929 | Cost and Profit of Mexican war | 13,000 die mostly from disease (they didn't understand infection) Chapultepec near Mexico City, Mexican teenage military academy perished to a boy creation of marine uniform- symbolizes marine fighting | 77 | |
| 6753141105 | Wilmot Proviso | David Wilmot proposes slavery be flatly prohibited in any territory from the Mexican War southern senators blocked it the debate split the Whigs and the democrats | 78 | |
| 6753160385 | Pierce | Lost his son and made him a weak president had Jefferson Davis (future president of Confederacy) as secretary of war wanted more slave territory | 79 | |
| 6753178792 | Matthew Perry | 1854 signed treaty to open trade relations with Japan US impressed Japan with 1/4 sized train Japan impressed US with sumo wrestlers | 80 | |
| 6753195884 | Doface | northerners that support the south ex. Polk | 81 | |
| 6753206542 | Cuba: Pearl of the Antilles (Sugar Exchange) | Polk offered 100 million to Spain for Cuba for slave expansion Then James Buchanan sent Ostend Manifesto (secret) and offered 120 million it leaks out and north is very mad | 82 | |
| 6753231565 | Slave issue in 1850s | North wanted Canada vs. South wanted Cuba neither got either | 83 | |
| 6753253804 | Union Civil War | GOOD -great economy -farms and factories -3/4 of nation's wealth -30,000 miles of railroad -controlled seas/blockade -manpower reserve of 22 million BAD -couldn't mess with border states -weak leaders -not accustomed for soldiering until later on -under estimated the South | 84 | |
| 6753291302 | Election of 1864 | *Salmon Chase* *Stephen Douglas* northern democrat, openly obstructed war, attacks against draft and Lincoln, and emancipation *Clement L. Vallandigham* Northern Democrat, "man without a country" - Hale *Lincoln* Republican joining with war democrats= unionist party, won nomination over chase, chose Andrew Johnson to draw in border states *General McClellan (Little Mac)* "MAc will win the union back | 85 | |
| 6753354296 | South Civil War | GOOD -defensive war -morale good -talented officers: Robert E Lee -ordinary men bred to fight -developed iron works -9 million including 3.5 million slaves BAD -had to allow for secession (Georgia leaves a lot) -Jefferson Davis wasn't flexible, at odds with congress, not popular, overworked - shortages of shoes, uniforms, blankets, men, and food -disabled for the poor transportation network -needs North | 86 | |
| 6753411564 | Trent Affair of 1861 | Union warship stops British mail steamer north of Cuba, 2 confederates taken as prisoners, but Lincoln released them to keep Great Britain out of the war | 87 | |
| 6753427979 | Confederate Commerce Raiders | supplied by Britain slick swift ships that could go through the blockade | 88 | |
| 6753434485 | Charles Francis Adams | convinced Britain to stay out of the war great diplomat of the war | 89 | |
| 6753447051 | Anaconda Plan | cut of the confederacy 2 times | 90 | |
| 6753452968 | Border States in the Civil War | Lincoln doesn't mess with them so they stay in Union KENTUCKY MISSOURI MARYLAND DELAWARE | 91 | |
| 6763775573 | 1st Bull Run | Manassas Junction-July 21, 1861 Union-McDowell Confederate- Stone Wall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson) confederacy shocked the union and union retreated in panic | 92 | |
| 6763808050 | Tardy George B. McClellan | "Little Mac" too afraid to expect his troops so Lincoln fired him Peninsular Campaign---> 7 days battle | 93 | |
| 6763832447 | after peninsular campaign | Lincoln prepares drat for Emancipation Proclamation 1. slowly suffocate with a blockade 2. liberate slaves, undermine their economy 3. cut Confederacy in half with the Anaconda Plan 4. chop Confederacy into pieces through Georgia and Carolinas 5. Seize capital 6. U.S. Grant's idea of total submission | 94 | |
| 6763870119 | Merrimack | confederate warship with rotating gun turret Lincoln orders for the Moniter to be made in order to sink it destroyed 1864 | 95 | |
| 6763892924 | Antietam | September 17 1862 1st time Lee invades the North, if battle was won Britain could enter war along with border states 2 union soldiers found Lee's plan Lee forced to retreat (technical union victory) Victory for Union was the push to implement Lincoln's Emancipation Prclomation | 96 | |
| 6763926779 | Emancipation Proclamation | Preliminary September 23 1862 Final January 1st 1863 Didn't free slaves in the South but increased North's morale | 97 | |
| 6763943985 | 54th Massachusetts | all black regiment in civil war fought gallantly to prove themselves | 98 | |
| 6763964095 | Fighting Joe Hooker at Chancellorsville | Virginia May 2-4 1863 Lee and Stonewall divided forces and it was working Stonewall shot by own soldiers---> cost Confederacy dearly | 99 | |
| 6763994093 | Battle of Gettysburg | July 1-3 1863 North- George G Meade 1st Day- fighting for the upper ground 2nd Day- fighting gallantly 3rd Day- out in open field 2 miles long, Union with upper ground | 100 | |
| 6764009583 | Pickett's Charge | broke the back of the Confederacy during battle of Gettysburg | 101 | |
| 6764019341 | Gettysburg Address | 2 minute speech turning point of the Civil war | 102 | |
| 6764025689 | Shilo | bloodiest battle in the West during Civil War | 103 | |
| 6764033339 | Sherman's March | William Tecumseh Sherman went across Georgia hitting civilian land and crops burning everything in their path -sent scouts to war civilians to leave- captures Atlanta 1864 idea of "total war" | 104 | |
| 6764074122 | Appomattox | Grant's troops capture Richmond and corner Lee at Appomattox Court House April 9 1865 Since were are now one country again Grant lets soldiers keep horses and rations and their swords orders union not to cheer | 105 | |
| 6764100367 | Freedman's Bureau | giving freed slaves whatever they needed -needs -find loved ones -house and land -teaches how to read and write | 106 | |
| 6764113067 | 13th Amendment | abolished slavery expanded government power women mad because they wanted their rights | 107 | |
| 6764121581 | 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to black males | 108 | |
| 6764126978 | 15th amendment | gave voting rights to black males suffrage | 109 | |
| 6764154958 | Hiram Revels Blanche K. Bruce Robert Smalls | blacks in government after civil war - Methodist minister, Mississippi senator -Mississippi senator - house of representatives, freed himself and others from confederate slave ship and took command of it | 110 | |
| 6764175970 | Redeemer Governments | Confederates taking back their positions in government after the civil war and made a new form of slavery-sharecropping and tenate farming paired up with KKK to make black 2nd class citizens | 111 | |
| 6764207192 | "Thus always to tyrants" | said in Latin by John Wilkes Booth after jumping on stage after shooting Lincoln | 112 | |
| 6764232155 | KKK | starts out to help southern widows, but then became terrorists black codes and lynching worst year for lynchings 1896 | 113 | |
| 6764250341 | Carpetbaggers | men ripping of the south during reconstruction, had 800% higher price than fair price | 114 | |
| 6764262277 | Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | 1st president to be impeached but not convicted was on the hot seat because he disagreed with radical republicans | 115 | |
| 6764275072 | Thaddeus Stevens | leader of Radical Republicans buried in a cemetery that accepted blacks | 116 | |
| 6764283091 | Command Army Act | President is no longer in control of military, congress is | 117 | |
| 6764301585 | 1867 Tenure Act | Cabinet members cannot be removed without congress approval ruled unconstitutional 58 years later | 118 | |
| 6764422752 | Election of 1872- Mugwump Reform Era | *Grant* republican- high tarriff waving the boodly shirt (most corrupt) Greeley- Liberal Republicans O'Conner- Democrat Black- prohibition- anti alcohol, supported by women Victoria Woodhull- National Radical Reformers- is super confused and yells at men, no votes, hurt women's movement Labor Reform Party- better working conditions, hours, and pay | 119 | |
| 6764469407 | Election of 1876 | *Hayes* Republican- high tariff, bloody shirt Tilden- Democrat- lawyer who busted Boss Tweed Smith-Prohibition- anti alcohol Cooper- Greenback- wanted paper money backed by silver, help farmers, THE GRANGE American National Party- patriotism, anti-foreign, reaction to immigration house and people could not vote for a winner, so a committee of 15 decided (Hayes messed with Democrats by saying he would build railroads in the south and withdraw reconstruction military) | 120 | |
| 6764524853 | Election of 1880 | *Garfield* Republican- dark horse candidate due to split (Half breeds- Blaine vs. Stalwarts- Conkling) assassinated by "spoils system victim", after death basically no leader Hancock-Democrat Weaver-Greenback Labor Dow-Prohibition | 121 | |
| 6764558861 | Chester Allen Arthur | creates Rentillatiin Act- if you want to be in a government position you must take a civil service test | 122 | |
| 6764586512 | Election of 1884 | Blaine-Republican-Half Breed "Ma ma where's my pa?" *Cleveland* Democrat- 1st Democrat since the Civil War, only split term president, vetoed veterans pension bills because random relatives were suing, "Going to the White House ha ha ha" Butler-Greenback St.John-Prohibition BELVA ANN BENNETT LOCKWOOD- equal rights- 1st women nominated for a party, suffrage for women Mudslinging started | 123 | |
| 6764634659 | Election of 1888 | *Harrison* Republican-1st billion $ congress Cleveland- Democrat Fisk- Prohibition Lockwood- Equal Rights-women Redstone- Industrial Reform- workers Streeter- Union Labor- workers | 124 | |
| 6764663753 | 1893 Chicago World's Fair | -1st Ferris Wheel -Frederick's manifest destiny -H.H. Holmes- 1st known serial killer | 125 | |
| 6764678224 | Coxley's March | 1894 Jacob Coxley marches from Ohio to Washington DC, demanding government pay money to help working class but is arrested for trespassing THE WHITE HOUSE IS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE | 126 | |
| 6764693336 | Election of 1892 | Former President Grover Cleveland running against the incumbent Benjamin Harrison. This was focusing on the issue of making a stable currency in the US. Cleveland would eventually win and be the first President to serve two non-consecutive terms. people's party-James Weaver | 127 | |
| 6764741888 | Election of 1896 | *McKinley* Republican- front porch campaign William Jennings Brian- Democrat & Populist & National Silver- "Cross of Gold Speech", Lion of the West, voice of the farmer Levering-Prohibition Matchett-Socialist Labor | 128 | |
| 6764777113 | Election of 1990 | *McKinley* Republican- September 6 1901 shot and killed while shaking hands---> pushing Teddy Roosevelt (youngest president) into office Bryan- Silver Rep. & Democrat & People's (populists) Woolley- Prohibition | 129 | |
| 6764815406 | Booker T. Washington | "equality should be earned" 1881- Tuskegee Normal School-- idea of it: blacks work hard and learn then whites will treat them with respect | 130 | |
| 6764828587 | George Washington Carver | Teacher at Tuskegee Normal School agricultural chemist credited with: peanut-shampoo, axle grease, sweet potato - vinegar, soybean - paint | 131 | |
| 6764851075 | W.E.B Dubois | 1st African american to graduate Harvard with a PhD "equality should be given" founded NAACP which helped with civil rights 1950s | 132 | |
| 6764881549 | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | sculpted the 54th Massachusetts statue | 133 | |
| 6764891622 | Amelia Bloomer | created bloomers (pants), now girls can work | 134 | |
| 6764907205 | Muck Rakers | magazines in the progressive era that expose bad things in society ex: Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, New York Nation (actually honest) | 135 | |
| 6771063090 | Queen Liliuokalani | the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests |  | 136 |
| 6771074059 | "New Manifest Destiny" | the idea of spreading democracy beyond US shores | 137 | |
| 6771100516 | John Fiske and Josiah Strong | believed that by conquering native and spreading Christianity is good they think natives are barbaric and they are doing good for them | 138 | |
| 6771144094 | Alfred Thayer Mahan | US is too late in the conquering game says we cannot go beyond our shores and conquer without a strong Navy and a strong government and country | 139 | |
| 6771173094 | Venezuelan Boundary Dispute | In south america Britain and Venezuela share a border, on the Venezuelan side there is a pocket of gold ----> Britain goes over the border and takes it US say they can't do that Britain backs down because they have no allies and want to be on america's good side since they are an emerging nation and Britain wants an ally *Leads to the Monroe Doctrine* | 140 | |
| 6771224007 | Cuban rebellion with Spain | Spanish Empire is crumbling and peasants are revolting, so Valeriano Weyler sends out small military forces to take people out of rural areas and force them into towns to control them (concentration camp-ish) story is covered with Yellow Journalism-->cause of war | 141 | |
| 6771264540 | "Splendid Little War" | Spanish American War Causes: Yellow Journalism Teddy Roosevelt pushing for war, even though McKinley doesn't want war This generation hasn't had a war yet Delome Letter The Maine Ultimatum Treaty of Paris ends war | 142 | |
| 6771297445 | Delome Letter | Spanish minister criticizes McKinley, calling him weak letter is made public Teddy to McKinley "soft as an eclair" cause for Spanish American war | 143 | |
| 6771336785 | The Maine | US battleship sitting in Cuban harbor for "monitoring" for 4 months, then it blows up into pieces explosion meant there were weapons and gunpowder on board, probably caused by sailor flicking a cigarette but US blames Spanish cause for Spanish American War | 144 | |
| 6771374154 | Ultimatum April 25 1898 | McKinley issues it out saying to Spain "you need to pull out of Cuba with your forces or we will go to war" Spain complied, but it was too late and US declared war (Spanish American War) | 145 | |
| 6771423354 | Military in Spanish American War | Army: training in an old hotel, 25000 volunteers, wooden rifles & wool uniforms, 8,000 causalities- 400 in combat, the rest were from eating meat from the civil war with botulism and disease | 146 | |
| 6771456432 | Rough Riders | Teddy Roosevelt (only killed one person) leaved position in navy to raise this regiment most of their horses died upon landing in Cuba most fighting Santiago | 147 | |
| 6771481194 | Treaty of Paris 1898 | US gets: Philippines Guam Cuba Puerto Rico Spanish gets: money *Cuba gets independence but we keep a military base* | 148 | |
| 6771641858 | Teller Amendment | Spanish leaves Cuba and grants Cuba Independence, except Garntanimal Bay(US military base) | 149 | |
| 6775282939 | Platt Amendment | 1901 Gives US rights to come into Cuba and defend them so no other country takes them | 150 | |
| 6775309885 | Big Stick Policy | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Teddy becomes the youngest President (42yo) because McKinley died Teddy is concerned about the Caribbean and keeping Europeans out TR sends Navy to the Caribbean to monitor that region uses old speech from the 5th president (Monroe Doctrine) to justify it | 151 | |
| 6775365703 | Dollar Diplomacy | William Howard Taft temporary governor in the Philippines then comes into Presidency after Teddy steps down, but Teddy uses Taft as a puppet dollar diplomacy = pay off debt & US businesses :) and increase- less violent | 152 | |
| 6775419449 | Panama Canal | 51 miles long with 6 lock pairs made for a shorter way around south america, but France and Britain have the rights to it we offer $20 million to Columbia for it,but it's rejected Panama gets independence, Bunau Benia Treaty = canal | 153 | |
| 6775488347 | John Hay's Open Door Policy | China should be kept open for trade making a world statement |  | 154 |
| 6775532102 | Assassination of Franz Ferdinand | 155 |
