Spanish American War
Name one new territory that the United States gained as a result of the Spanish American War
What are the Phillipines, Guam, or Puerto Rico?
This company was known as "El Pulpo" or the Octopus. They overthrew countries, installed dictatorships, and oppressed natives for the right to sell bananas to Europe and America.
What is the United Fruit Company?
Acceptable answer: What is the Chiquita company?
Who wrote the poem "White Man's Burden"
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
the policy of carefully mediated negotiation ("speaking softly") supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military
What is "Big Stick" diplomacy?
This continent was divided between the European powers at the Berlin conference in1899
What is Africa?
The mysterious destruction of this ship began the Spanish American War
What is the USS Maine?
The monarchy of Hawaii was overthrown by the sugar and pineapple plantation owners of this company
What is Dole?
What act made Puerto Ricans non-voting citizens of the United States?
What was the Jones Act?
a foreign policy in which the United States lent money to foreign countries in return for the ability to make decisions for the governments of those countries
What is "dollar" diplomacy?
This policy called for all nations to have equal access to the markets of China
What is the open door policy?
This guy quit his rather cushy job to assemble a military posse called the Rough Riders. Hint: He later became President and the Teddy bear was named after him
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Central American countries suffered dictatorships, bad land deals, and a loss of rights because of this fruit
What is the banana?
What was the United States seeking in China?
Hint: a sphere of...
What is a sphere of influence?
What region of the world did the United States view as its 'backyard'
What is Latin America?
What country did the United States purchase Alaska from in 1867?
What is Russia?
This island, located 90 miles off the coast of Florida, was the main reason for the start of the Spanish American War
What is Cuba?
Hawaii was overthrown largely because of this fruit
What is a pineapple?
Name one reason why the United States sought to expand overseas?
Answers: the completion of the American frontier, a desire for overseas markets, imperialism
What country was used to build this canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? Hint: starts with a P
What is the Panama canal?
Are Puerto Ricans able to vote in American Presidential elections?
No
This island became part of the United States after the Spanish American War as an unincorporated territory. Hint- alot of y'all got family there
Puerto Rico
What state were the founders of Dole from?
Hint: you live here
What is the state of Massachusetts?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
This type of Journalism was the "fake news" of its era in which newspapers would publish false, misleading, and senstationalized accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba
What is yellow journalism?
What country was blamed for the sinking of the USS Maine?
What is Spain?