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A private military cavalry organized by Theodore Roosevelt for the Spanish-American War.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This act of Congress declared that the United States had not territorial claim to Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
An exaggerated style of reporting sensationalized new stories.
What is yellow journalism?
The precedent of United States foreign policy as expressed in Washington's Farwell Address.
What is isolationism?
Established the twin policies of non-colonization and non-interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Leader of the Filipino resistance to American Imperialism during the Philippine-American War.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
Connects the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean to shorten time for military and economic transportation between the Atlantic and Pacific regions.
What is the Panama Canal?
The use of American investment in Latin America and Asia to establish political and trade alliances.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The concept of territorial expansion or empire building.
What is imperialism?
Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy that the United States should use its power to aid the development of constitutional liberty in the world.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
Publisher of the New York Journal that sensationalized the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
Areas in which a single nation controlled trading rights and even demanded land for military bases.
What are spheres of influence?
Event that brought about the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
Theodore Roosevelt's use of Big Stick Policy to act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
Called on foreign nations to allow free trade in China, but to respect Chinese independence.
What is Open Door Poilcy?
President of the United States during the Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
William Howard Taft was governor of this territory prior to becoming President of the United States.
What are the Philippines?
The Dole Pineapple Company pressured the United States government to claim Hawaii from this leader.
Who is Queen Lili'uokalani?
Individuals like union leader Samuel Gompers, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, social worker Jane Addams, and author Mark Twain opposed territorial expansion by forming this organization.
What is the Anti-Imperialist League?
Location of Theodore Roosevelt's victory in Cuba with his Rough Rider's charge.
What is San Juan Hill?
This US Senator from Massachusetts believe that forming an American Empire was critical to the nations' future.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
Island in the Caribbean ceded to the United States following the Spanish-American War.
What is Puerto Rico?
Where the first shots of the Spanish-American War were fired.
What is Manilla Bay in the Philippines?
The concept that American democracy will follow into territories acquired by the United States.
What is The Constitution Follows the Flag policy?
President Theodore Roosevelt sent this military unit on a world tour to tout American military might.
What is the Great White Fleet?