Vocabulary
Presidents and Rulers
Eyes on the Pacific
The Spanish-American War
The United States and Latin America
100
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
100
1909-1913.
What are the years President Wiliam Howard Taft was in office?
100
The old frontier which ended and the new frontier according to Frederick Turner.
What is The West and what is the Pacific?
100
The ship that sailed into Havana, Cuba to protect American lives and property. While there, a mysterious explosion happened.
What was the Maine?
100
The ships sent from San Fransisco to Cuba by the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War.
What is the ship Oregon?
200
The forced movement of large numbers of people into detention camps for military or political reasons.
What is reconcentration?
200
The idea that Roosevelt had that the United States would not hesitate to use militrary force to protect its interests.
What is The "Big Stick" Policy?
200
Most people called Seward's purchase of Alaska this ___________________ because most people believed that Alaska was a frozen wasteland.
What is "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox"?
200
Some Americans were sympathetic to Cuban rebels and some wanted to intervene for economic reasons.
What were the reasons why Americans helped Cubans?
200
The Isthmus of Panama was 50 miles wide and much shorter route from America to the countries in South America.
What are the reasons that the Isthmus of Panama was chosen for the sight of a canal to connect the Pacific and Atlantic?
300
Roosevelt enforced the policy of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. President Howard Taft, who followed Roosevelt, introduced a policy of dollar diplomacy. Explain both of these terms.
What is a corollary is a logical extension of a doctrine or proposition and dollar diplomacy is a policy based on the idea that economic ties were the best way to expand American influence?
300
The ruler of Hawaii who refused to recognize the 1887 Constitution.
Who is Liliuokalani?
300
Open Door Policy
What is a gaurantee the rights of all nations to trade with China on an equal Basis?
300
Leader of Filipino rebels who was originally helped by the Americans to get rid of Spanish control in the Philippines, but then turned on the Americans when they tried to take control.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
400
The Panama Canal was built through the Isthmus of Panama. Describe an isthmus.
What is a narrow strip of land joining two larger areas of land?
400
The Commodore who sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 with a squadron of heavily armed warships.
What is Matthew C. Perry
400
A chain of islands in the Pacific that there was a rivalry between Britain, America, and Germany for. A typhoon hit and Germany and America ended up splitting it ten years later.
What is Samoa?
400
Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the Pacific islands of Guam and Wake.
What is the land that Spain granted America in the peace treaty?
500
One is avoiding involvement in other countries affairs. The other is building empires by imposing political and economic control over peoples around the world... in other words getting in everyone's business.
What is the difference between imperialism and isolationism?
500
Mexican rebel leader in 1916.
Who is Francisco "Pancho" Villa?
500
The separate areas divided between European powers and Japan where each country had economic and political control.
What were the spheres of influence in China?
500
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
Who were the writer rivals of New York World and the New York Journal in late 1800's?
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