Geography
This country is sometimes considered the center or "heart" of Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Napoleon III came up with this phrase to describe how people from Spanish-speaking America were culturally connected to the French
Latin America
We took half of Mexico during this event during the 1840s.
Mexican-American War
This is the name of the novel that suggested that life on the Congo River turned all people, white or black, savage.
Heart of Darkness
John Quitman, a Mississippi governor, wanted to capture this Caribbean island to use it for the slave trade.
Cuba
This country is the closest part of Africa to the South Pole
South Africa
The British worked to end this horrific economic venture in the early-1800s.
Atlantic Slave Trade
This was the name of the document from the 1820s that proclaimed the United States of America's right to defend our American neighbors' rights to be independent.
Monroe Doctrine
He was the British entrepreneur who sought the completion of a trainline from South Africa to Egypt.
Cecil Rhodes
William Walker tried to reinstall slavery in this Central American country, became its president, and was eventually chased out by its neighbors.
Nicaragua
This northern African country is where the Nile empties into the sea.
Egypt
This is the name of the French intervention in Mexico that resulted from a dispute over damages causes in a bakery.
Pastry War
Seward’s Folly is the name of a purchase given to people who were against the purchase of this land from Alaska.
Alaska
It was during his ventures in the Congo that accounts of cannibalism reached the American and European public.
Henry Morton Stanley
William Walker and the Frenchman Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon both tried to take over the northwestern part of this Mesoamerican country.
Mexico
This western African country is near the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon
Nigeria
This British port was bombarded by an American naval ship for violating the Monroe Doctrine.
Greytown
Victory during this war gave the U.S. control over the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico while liberating Cuba from its imperial overlord.
Spanish-American War
He was the king of Belgium and ruler of the Congo Free State. He allowed workers to cut the hands off of the lazy to maximize his profits in the rubber industry.
Leopold II
Lee Christmas
This East African highland country is the biggest one near the Horn of Africa. It is southeast of Sudan and west of Somalia
Ethiopia
The British created this "independent" kingdom on the eastern side of the Caribbean, using it as an excuse to log the jungle of hardwoods
Mosquito Kingdom
This was Teddy Roosevelt's promise to use the Great White Fleet to reinforce America's right to defend this hemisphere from European influence
Roosevelt Corollary
This was the name of the meeting when European countries worked together to draw a map showing who owned which land in Africa.
Berlin Conference
He was one of the most powerful and wealthiest fruit dealers in the United States. He was stationed in Mobile and paid for the overthrow of the Honduran government.
Sam "The Banana Man" Zemurray