America Becomes an Imperial Power
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
This war greatly expanded American influence in the Caribbean and Pacific.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
Sensational or exaggerated reporting designed to attract attention and influence readers.
What is yellow journalism?
100
A political ______ challenges the government or established political system.
What is a dissident?
100
Sensational reporting increased public anger and hostility toward this country.
What is Spain?
100
A weaker state controlled or protected by a stronger power while retaining some local government is called this.
What is a protectorate?
200
U.S. influence increased in Cuba and these Pacific islands after the war.
What are the Philippines?
200
An agreement to stop fighting, usually as a step toward ending a war.
What is an armistice?
200
Mounted military forces were known as ______.
What is cavalry?
200
Yellow journalism helped increase public support for this action.
What is intervention?
200
This idea misused natural-selection concepts to justify domination between human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
This narrow strip of land became strategically important because of plans to build a canal.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
300
The settlement of a dispute by a neutral third party.
What is arbitration?
300
Overseas rule became an ______ to many people who wanted independence.
What is anathema?
300
Victory in the Spanish-American War increased U.S. influence in these two broad regions.
What are the Caribbean and Pacific?
300
This Caribbean island became an important area of increased U.S. influence after the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
400
Expansionism and imperialism produced this reaction among many colonized peoples.
What is resistance?
400
Payments demanded to compensate for damage or losses caused by war or wrongdoing.
What are reparations?
400
A government representative sent to negotiate may be called an ______.
What is an envoy?
400
Imperial rule generated opposition because colonized people rejected foreign rule, economic control, and this attitude of superiority.
What is cultural superiority?
400
These Pacific islands also came under increased American influence.
What are the Philippines?
500
The canal, arbitration, diplomatic recognition, and foreign-policy corollaries all served this broader American goal.
What is expanding U.S. influence?
500
Judging other cultures by the standards of your own and often viewing yours as superior.
What is ethnocentricity?
500
Colonized peoples organized ______ against foreign control.
What is resistance?
500
Later American foreign policy extended influence through strategic projects and these diplomatic tools.
What are arbitration, diplomatic recognition, and corollaries?
500
This term means formal acceptance by one government that another government is legitimate.
What is diplomatic recognition?