Countries
This country’s residents became citizens of the United States in 1917.
What is Puerto Rico?
This person was known as the hero of San Juan Hill.
The mysterious sinking of this fueled the movement for war with Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
The United States insisted that Cuba include this in its constitution.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This is the name for sensational and often irresponsible news headlines and stories.
What is yellow journalism?
The Panama Canal was built on land that had previously been controlled by this country.
What is Colombia?
General John J. Pershing led a force of fifteen thousand soldiers into Mexico in an attempt to capture this person.
Who is Pancho Villa?
This war ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1898.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The purpose of this was to end military rule and set up civil government in Puerto Rico.
What is the Foraker Act?
This is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.
What is imperialism?
“Remember the Maine!” became a rallying cry for U.S. intervention in this country.
What is Cuba?
This person told the artist Frederic Remington, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
This was an attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to remove foreign influence from China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This person headed the government in Hawaii after its monarchy had been overthrown.
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
Theodore Roosevelt won this in 1906 for negotiating an end to war between Russia and Japan.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
The rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo believed that the United States had promised independence to this country.
What is the Philippines?
This person surrendered Hawaii to the United States in 1893.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
During this war, the United States treated Filipinos in much the same way the Spanish had treated the Cubans.
What is the Philippine-American War?
This is the name for a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.
What is a protectorate?
This person urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other powerful nations.
Who was Admiral Alfred T. Mahan?
Luis Muñoz Rivera was a newspaper editor and a supporter of independence for this country.
What is Puerto Rico?
This Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York organized a guerrilla campaign to destroy American-owned property in Cuba in order to provoke U.S. intervention in Cuba.
Who was José Martí?
This person gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital.
Who was Commodore George Dewey?
To protect American interests, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay issued, in 1899, a series of policy statements called this.
What are the the Open Door notes?
In his December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt added this to the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?