Jasmine S. Phillips Once the 20th century began‚ the United States had become very active with foreign policy‚ mostly involving Asia and those in the Western Hemisphere. This occurred after the period of progressivism and the after thoughts of responsibility to promote morality came to rise. The United states had grown economically and began to be more involved in public affairs‚ which led to the involvement of the United states in world War I. Roosevelt expanded the Monroe doctrine and coined the
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coasts‚ acquire naval bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific islands to protect the canal‚ and annex Hawaii and other Pacific islands to promote trade and services the fleet. * Mahan’s program was a group of nationalistic Republicans. * Theodore Roosevelt promoted Mahan’s idea when he became assistant secretary of the navy in 1897. 3. Economic Designs * All Americans favored economic expansion through foreign trade. * Policy promised national prosperity: larger markets for manufacturers
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The Gilded Age 1870-1900 I. Social Darwinism Individualism and Social Darwinism shaped Americans’ attitudes toward industrial society. (The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today – Mark Twain and Charles Warner‚ why historians call it that) A. The Idea of Individualism a. Individualism – no matter how humble your origins‚ you can rise in society as far as your talents and commitment and talents will take you. (one of the strongest beliefs of the era) 1. Horatio Alger
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Have you ever heard of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot? These two men expressed different beliefs over preservation and conservation. John Muir was America’s most famous conservationist. While Gifford Pinchot was one of America’s leading preservationist. Both of these men spent most of their lifetime defending the natural resources and the wildlife around the world. John Muir is one of California’s most important historical personalities. Born in Scotland‚ he has been called “The Father of our National
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Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a simple tale of a young‚ pretty eighteen year old girl Caroline Meeber also know as Carrie. When Carrie got on the train from Columbia City to Chicago she had only few cheap items in her trunk and her sister’s address on a piece of paper. Being only eighteen she was still "full of the illusions of ignorance and youth"(Dreiser‚ 7). She was both afraid of the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities of the
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The progressive era directly followed the post-civil wartime of chaos and corruption. The United States of America desperately needed change. As a result of this desire for change a varied group called progressives (which were largely composed of white middle class)‚ pushed to improve America’s current condition and created a set of goals. A majority of these goals were achieved pushing America to having increased social justice‚ corporation control‚ and regulations on consumer products. However
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President William McKinley was deeply ambivalent about the war against Spain. To justify the use of weapons in the far Pacific‚ for the occasion he sacrificed his pacifist tendencies in the name of national interest and evoked the injustice done to the Filipino people and the moral duty that requires the United States to go to the rescue. At the end of the Spanish-American war‚ after originally declaring that it would "be criminal aggression" for the United States to annex the archipelago‚ he reversed
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With the recent acquisition of the harbor at Pago Pago in Samoa‚ Imperialist sentiments began to rise in the United States during the 1890s. Americans were eager to expand beyond the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans‚ and the Spanish American War‚ which began with President McKinley’s declaration on April 11‚ 1898. The Treaty of Paris‚ signed in December of 1898‚ formally ended the war; Spain had ceded Cuba‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico to the United States‚ and the Spanish sold the Philippines for $20 million
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The Social Worker As the wife of a popular United States president‚ Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City‚ October 11‚ 1884‚ and died November 7‚ 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt‚ and was raised by her maternal grandmother after the premature death of her parents. In 1905 she married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They had six children‚ but one of them died in infancy. Although she was extremely shy‚ Eleanor
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serving president of the United States who took the oath four times; placing his left hand on a old Dutch Bible and repeating the words of his oath. Franklin served from 1932-1945 as the president and the leader of the Democratic Party. His 5th cousin‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ served as the 26th president of the United States. Franklin went to Harvard to study and later went to Columbia Law School to study law‚ and soon after he returned to Harvard to finish his final years. Many things inspired Franklin to
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