Monday
Iowa’s senators
- Chuck Grassley – Republican
- Joni Ernst – Republican
Women’s role in progressive Era
- May more women were getting an education
- Many became teachers
- Help push for the passing of the 18th and 19th amendments to the US Constitution
- Prohibition
- Women’s suffrage
1848 – Seneca fall declaration: women push for
- Abolition of slavery (13th amendment – 1865)
- Temperance (18th amendment – 1920)
- Women’s suffrage (19th amendment – 1920)
- Child labor laws
Theodore Roosevelt
- Wife died
- Left his daughter behind, moved west in Dakota and became a cowboy
- Fancy dresser
- Historian
- Police chief commissioner
- Naval secretary
- Rough rider
- Governor of New York
- Vice president
- President
- Peacemaker – won Nobel prize
- Mighty hunter of all the time
TR was the “trustbuster”
“Good Trusts” vs “bad trusts”
Theodore Roosevelt was a big conservationist
Conservation – planned management of natural resources, involving the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others
- set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves
- 5 million acres of water-power sites
- 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks
William Howard Taft – Not beloved by the progressives
- Taft never really felt like he was the president; always in Roosevelt’s shadow
African-Americans were for the most part ignored by Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and the progressive movement
Tuesday
key terms
- Diplomacy
- How we officially deal with other countries. How to solve problems to avoid war
- Imperialism
- Taking over land
- Militarism
- Build up your military. Be stronger and ready to use
- Nationalism
- Strong belief in your country – extremely patriotic – usually doesn’t end well
- Adolf Hitler – German nationalist
- Sphere of influence
- Don’t go in and take over, but have a lot of control and influence in another country
- Protectorate
- State that is controlled and protected by another
- Arbitration
- Use of arbitrator to settle a dispute
- Both must agree
- Arbitrator listens to both sides and is solved by a third party
Old diplomacy
- Noninterventionist
- The US did not intervene in foreign affairs, especially Europe’s
- Isolationist
- The US acted alone in foreign affairs as compared to working with other nations
- Passive and reactive
- The US waited for events to occur and then acted accordingly
- Weak army and navy
New Diplomacy
- Imperialistic
- Going out and conquering territory to create an empire
- Alfred Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, Teddy Roosevelt
- Strong army and navy – Militarism
- Interventionist – especially in Central and South America
- Becoming more involved in other countries affairs
- Monroe Doctrine (1823) –Warning Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere.
- Strong nationalism
- Having strong pride and confidence in one’s country
Captain Alfred Mahan – wrote the book “The Influence of Sea Power upon history ” – saying must have a good navy to be a strong power. Big influence on the US and other countries. US Naval officer
Wednesday - talked about the election
Thursday :
We have troops in :
- Japan
- Germany
- South Korea
- Italy
- Afghanistan
- United Kingdom
- Kuwait
- Iraq
- Bahrain
- Guam
- Spain
- Qatar
- Turkey
- Djibouti
- Jordan
- United Arab Emirates
- Belgium
- Cuba
- Romania
- Greece
Why are US troops stationed all around the world?
- The impact of WWII and the Cold War – Korean War, Vietnam War, War on Terror
President Trump
- The US will be focused on “making America great again”
- Generally, believes that the US need to lessen how much money we spend protecting other countries. Those countries need to pay us more money for the protection
- Other countries in the United Nations need to step up and pay more for the UN
Ch. 10.1 imperialism and America
- Imperialism became very common with the major powers od the world.
- Which countries were the most powerful in 1900?
- Great Britain
- Germany
- France
- Austria – Hungary
- Italy
- Russia
- United states
- Ottoman empire (turkey)
- Japan
Friday
Latin America – 1800 – most countries were independent by 1830
Why did the US and other countries look to imperialism?
- The Western Frontier was settled – 1890
- Brings military power and prestige to your country
- Naval bases and refueling stations
- $$$ - for natural resources as well as opening new markets to sell your goods (trade)
- Belief in cultural superiority – White Man’s Burden
- McKinley: “To talk them all and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.”
- Taft: We must help out “our little brown brothers” on the Philippines
Started working on prjoect
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