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Unit IV

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=CHP 16 Preview=
 * Migrants from the West had started to increase as the tales of what they had found was interesting. Some of these migrants were miners and farmers.
 * To the Plains tribes, the buffalo had become an important part of their way of life: they provided food, clothing, shoes, tepees, etc., their poop had been used as fuel, and their bones had been used as weapons by the Plains tribes.
 * Of course because of the increase of American migrants taking Indian lands once more, now the Indians had started to fight white migrants once again, there was a new conflict between the Indians and the U.S. military (or government)
 * In CA, there was notable racial feelings toward them because they had become so successful because of the Gold Rush, anti-Chinese sentiment societies had grew.

=CHP 16 Title= "Far West" - it referred to the Western part of the USA, the region of land on the west side of the Mississippi River. Areas with varying of different climates and regions. The far west was also (beginning to be) seen as a land of opportunity. "Frontier" - also the territory west of the MI River; restricted to the area west of the plains. The frontier may mean the plains or the whole section where it was land just waiting for people to settle in them; it was unsettled.It was the place for opportunity; seen as an unknown journey with rewards.

=CHP 17 Preview (also known as the 2nd Industrial Revolution)=
 * Time range late nineteenth century (1880s to 1910s)
 * Different types of business, such as corporations.
 * This was the birth of modern American capitalism.
 * Steel production and the rise of petroleum usage.
 * The automobile and the airplane was born.
 * Railroad construction
 * New techniques to manage workers
 * Social Darwinism (again?)
 * Gospels of wealth (Russell Conwell and Horatio Alger)
 * Immigrate work force (new sources)
 * Strikes (basically about work conditions and payments)

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=Imperialism (CHP 20)= Definition: (Complicated): "the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." Imperialism = new Manifest Destiny. Expansionism: the idea of expanding past the border. To obtain power and influence. About extending more power. Territorial Accquisition. To industrialize non-developed nations. Imperialism - the belief and practice of imperial "things" Imperialist - to describe a person who believes/practices imperial "things". Motivations: Examples:
 * Economic: To make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods.
 * Political: A nation's desire to gain power, to compete with other European countries (<-- not a main goal of the US), to expand territory, to exercise military force, to gain prestige by winning colonies, and to boost national pride and security, creations of bases in other parts of the world.
 * Exploratory: The desire to explore "unknown" or uncharted territory, to conduct scientific research, to conduct medical searches for the causes and treatment of diseases, to go on an adventure, and to investigate "unknown" lands and cultures.
 * (Not really too much in effect in the US: Religious: The desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end slave trade in Africa.)
 * The Louisana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expedition (exploratory)
 * California, The Gold Rush (economic)
 * Obtaining FL, TX, Oregon, CA, NM, AL, etc., Manifest Destiny (political)
 * The obtaining of Puerto Rico (territorial expansion)
 * The obtaining of Venezuela (influential)
 * The development of better weapons and naval force (industrialism)

=Five Ws of the Spanish American War= Who- Americans, Spanish, Cubans. Why- America wanted to help because they had economic ties to Cuba (sugar), and they wanted Cuba to become independent. What- A conflict between America and Spain. THe Cuban's fight for independence. When- April 25, 1898 to August 12, 1898. Where- In the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean. Cuban people had tried to provoke America into entering the war, by destroying US owned sugar plantations. Over 5000 deaths over diseases, not the fighting. "This splendid little war" - S-A War (its description) (splendid-America gained a lot, little- just four months) Yellow Journalism - sort of like the tabloids, a sensational type of journalism, with lots of exaggerations-little facts. Pictures ( from left to right by row ): American Flag, Spanish Flag, Cuban Flag (1902), Sugar Cane, Maine battleship, SIgning of the peace treaty, Caribbean map, Pacific Ocean map.