The Pacific
This is the name of the deal that gave Alaska to the US.
What is Seward's Folly?
The nickname for the men who fought with Teddy Roosevelt.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This issue was taken care of by clearing brush and draining swamps in Panama.
What was yellow fever/malaria?
This US leader won the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The term that means to avoid involvement in other countries.
What is isolationism?
The US bought Alaska from this country.
What is Russia?
The first battle was fought in the country.
What is the Philippines?
What is 6000?
This was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The term that means to build empires through political and economic control of other countries.
What is imperialism?
The policy that guaranteed rights of all nations to trade equally with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
These 2 men used yellow journalism to enrage the US people about what was going on in Cuba.
Who are Hearst and Pulitzer?
This leader coined the phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This leader secured trading rights with Japan.
Who is Matthew C. Perry?
This was the belief that expansion around the world was the new Westward Expansion.
What is The Turner Thesis?
A typhoon saved the country from being fought over.
What is Samoa?
The 4 territories the US got from Spain, after the Spanish-American War. (Name at least 2 for full credit)
What are Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, and Wake?
These were the jobs of the workers building the Panama Canal. (Name at least 2 for full credit)
What is cutting through mountains, damming rivers, building canal locks, and digging a ditch?
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The war cry that started the Spanish-American War.
What is Remember the Maine?
The 3 countries that "fought" over the island of Samoa. (must name all three correctly to receive points)
Who are Germany, England, and the US?
This limited Cuba's power to make treaties or borrow money and gave the US the right to intervene in their policies.
What is the Platt Amendment?
The amount of money Roosevelt offered Columbia to build the Panama Canal.
What is $10 million and $250,000 yearly rent?
This leader believed US foreign policy should support democracy around the world.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The expansionist view believed these two things.
Expansion would promote economic growth and would spread American values around the world.