https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48 US History en-us 2016-11-04 04:07:00 UTC 2026-03-20 11:51:02 UTC hello@padlet.com daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283615 Definition: It is the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation overforeign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies anddependencies.]]> 2016-11-04 04:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283615 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283623 Definition:  It is the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.]]> 2016-11-04 04:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283623 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283658 Definition:  It is a belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.”]]> 2016-11-04 04:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283658 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283682 Definition:  The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals orgroups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.]]> 2016-11-04 04:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283682 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283687 Definition: A war between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the PhilippineIslands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902.]]> 2016-11-04 04:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283687 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283709 Definition: Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.

]]> 2016-11-04 04:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283709 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283732 Definition: The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Thoeodore Roosevelt.]]> 2016-11-04 04:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283732 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283747 Definiition: The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.]]> 2016-11-04 04:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283747 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283766 Definition: Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”).]]> 2016-11-04 04:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283766 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283796 Definition:  It is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.]]> 2016-11-04 04:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283796 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283807 Definition: The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.]]> 2016-11-04 04:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283807 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283819 Definition: Big stick ideology, Big stick diplomacy, or Big stickpolicy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."]]> 2016-11-04 04:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283819 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283841 Definition: It is the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.]]> 2016-11-04 04:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283841 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283869 Definition: Moral Diplomacy is a form of diplomacy proposed by US President Woodrow Wilson in his 1912 election. Moral Diplomacy is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.]]> 2016-11-04 04:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283869 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283903 Definition:  Panama Canal definition. Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. The canalconnects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The United States built it from 1904 to 1914 on territory leased from Panama.]]> 2016-11-04 04:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283903 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283911 Defintion: It is a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.]]> 2016-11-04 04:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283911 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283936 Definition: It is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting onlyone side of an argument. Propaganda statements may be partly false andpartly true. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide varietyof media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.]]> 2016-11-04 04:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283936 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283943 Defintion:  A British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915. Germany, then at war with Britain but not with the United States (see World War I), had warned Americans against traveling on the ship. More than a hundred Americans died in the sinking.]]> 2016-11-04 04:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283943 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283960 Definition: It is the principle or policy of maintaining a large military establishment. ... the tendency to regard military efficiency as the supreme ideal of the state and to subordinate all other interests to those of the military.]]> 2016-11-04 04:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283960 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283978 Definition: It is a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes. ]]> 2016-11-04 04:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283978 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283987 Definition: The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.

]]> 2016-11-04 04:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135283987 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284003 Definition: It was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.]]> 2016-11-04 04:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284003 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284028 Definition: The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of warsupplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.]]> 2016-11-04 04:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284028 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284041 Definition: Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardensfor defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardensplanted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.]]> 2016-11-04 04:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284041 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284056 Definition:  A Liberty Bond was a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time.]]> 2016-11-04 04:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284056 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284064 Definition: The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.]]> 2016-11-04 04:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284064 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284111 Definition: An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like.]]> 2016-11-04 04:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284111 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284133 Definition:  The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.]]> 2016-11-04 04:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284133 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284136 Definition:  He was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. Lodge received his PhD in history from Harvard. Lodge was a long-time friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt.]]> 2016-11-04 04:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284136 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284149 Definition:  Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She took the throne in 1891 following the death of her brother, King Kalakaua. She was a strong voice for native Hawaiians, whose power had been limited by the increasing influence of U.S. settlers in Hawaii.]]> 2016-11-04 04:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284149 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284161 Definition:  He was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." ... His ideas still permeate the US Navy doctrine.]]> 2016-11-04 04:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284161 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284177 Definition: He was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of yellow journalism to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s.]]> 2016-11-04 04:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284177 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284193 Definition: He ]]> 2016-11-04 04:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284193 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284219 Definition: He was a political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War.]]> 2016-11-04 04:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284219 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284237 Definition: He was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of the United States from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.]]> 2016-11-04 04:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284237 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284249 Definition:  He was the 28th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1913-1919. As president of Princeton University and later as governor of New Jersey, Wilson was a leading Progressive, arguing for a stronger central government and fighting for anti-trust legislation and labor rights.]]> 2016-11-04 04:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284249 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284256 Definition: He  was an Archduke of Austia-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.]]> 2016-11-04 04:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284256 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284288 Definition: The Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.]]> 2016-11-04 04:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284288 daya59flawers https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284307 Definition: The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it a crime to interfere with the operations of the military to promote the success of its enemies and prohibited many forms of speech perceived as disloyal to the United States of America. The Espionage Act of 1917 was enacted on June 15, 1917. The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918. ]]> 2016-11-04 04:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/daya59flawers/99cez9rsjp48/wish/135284307