As a result of the amount of bananas being exported and the banana's influence on some governments the places were called what?
banana republics
100
What are areas of economic and political control?
spheres of influence
100
What is maintaining orderly societies abroad through increased American investment in foreign economies
the Dollar Diplomacy
100
The growth and popularity of youth scouting programs during this period shows that many American's had what?
frontier mentality
100
What called for the construction of more battle ships, gunboats, torpedo boats and cruisers?
the Naval Act of 1890
200
What is to join a new territory to an existing country?
annex
200
What stipulated that the Cuban govt. could not enter any foreign agreements?
the Platt Amendment
200
What is the head of the conflicts between Russia and Japan in 1904?
the Russo-Japanese War
200
What are the big white ships that cruised around the world?
The Great White Fleet
200
What ensured that the US would have equal access to China's millions of consumers?
Open door policy
300
What is a devotion to one's nations?
nationalism
300
What is the intense burst of national pride and the desire for an aggressive foreign policy that followed?
jingoism
300
What are the messages to Congress issued by Roosevelt In December 1904 and 1905?
Roosevelt Corollary
300
What is required military service?
compulsory
300
Who was a peasant rebel leader?
Fransisco "Pancho" Villa
400
Under what, stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations?
imperialism
400
What is the settlement of a dispute by a person or panel chosen to listen to both sides and come to a decision?
arbitration
400
What gave the US a permanent grant of a 10-mile-wide strip of land for a canal zone over which the US would have complete sovereignty.
the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
400
What is a belief that differences in character or intelligence due to one's race?
Racism
400
what is a link between the Atlantic and Pacific that left a legacy of ill will among Latin Americans towards the US?
the Panama Canal
500
What changed the national landscape and the daily lives of all Americans?
industrialization
500
What staged the rescue of of someone they described as a beautiful, young Cuban girl being held prisoner by the Spanish? (hint: it also strengthened American sympathy for the Cuban rebels)
the Journal
500
What authorized the purchase of French assets and required that the US work out a treaty with Colombia for a lease on the land?
the Spooner Act
500
What is a group of established, organized officials?
the Anti- Imperialist League
500
Who cautioned of "the evils of interference in affairs that do not specially concern us"?