Political Terms
The policy of a nation avoiding involvement in world affairs
What is Isolationism?
The warship which exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, beginning the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
The current US state which America got duty free sugar from in the 1870s
What is Hawaii?
Caribbean colony which was fighting for independence from Spain
What is Cuba?
Name of America's trade policy in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
The policy of stronger countries expanding power and influence through colonization over weaker ones
What is Imperialism?
The term used to describe the purchase of Alaska by its critics
What is Seward's Folly?
This is the country the United States purchased Alaska from
What is Russia?
US foreign policy used to justify American intervention in Cuba (and the Americas in general)
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Constructed to help American shipping get from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans faster
What is the Panama Canal?
American belief in a God given right to expand west
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the superiority of their civilization obligated Western civilizations to impose their practices, such as industrialization and medicine, to the rest of the world.
What is White Man's Burden?
Term for how the US planned to get around the loss of duty free sugar from Hawaii
What is annexation?
First location of battles during the Spanish-American War
What is the Philippines?
Name for the addition to the Monroe Doctrine made by Teddy Roosevelt telling Europeans that Americans would protect economic interests in Latin America
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Amendment which set rules for Cuban independence
What is the Platt Amendment?
Letter from a Spanish ambassador which angered the US population leading up to the Spanish-American War
What is the De Lome Letter?
This is how much money the United States spent to purchase Alaska
What is $7 Million (or 2 cents an acre)?
Key battle in the Spanish-American War in which the Rough Riders ensured victory in Cuba
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
Taft's policy of backing American business loans in Latin America with the power of the US government
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy of careful negotiation backed up by the unspoken threat of a powerful military
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
A type of propaganda which bends the truth to get an emotional response from the reader
What is Yellow Journalism?
Why the purchase of Alaska turned out to be a positive for the United States
What is the discovery of natural resources?
Treaty which ended the Spanish-American War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Wilson's idea of using diplomacy to make the world a better place
What is Moral Diplomacy?