American Imperialism
American Imperialism in Asia
People
Spanish American War
Policy
100
This cold, large territory was purchased by the US from the Russians for millions of dollars.
What is Alaska?
100
Policy that would open all of trade in China to all nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
100

This person won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace between Japan and Russia. Also, he was a president and a Rough Rider.

Who is Teddy Roosevelt?

100
This treaty was signed on December 1898, ending the Spanish American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100

What are (some of- at least 3) the reasons for Imperialism?

What is 

  • Desire for military strength 
  • Need for new markets
  • Belief in Cultural Superiority 
200

Reasons the U.S. was interested in Hawaii.

What is sugar plantations and a naval port?

200
Rebels who wanted to rid China of foreign influence.
Who are the Boxers?
200

American businessman who instigated a rebellion against the Hawaiian Throne to control pineapple production (an possibly politics?) on the island.

Who is Sanford Dole?

200
A type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
The main principle of the foreign policy in the United States, established in 1823 says that any foreign (European) intervention in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the U.S.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300

The uses for the Panama Canal.

What is trade and military use?

300
What was the US seeking when they extended their imperial power?
What is trade and natural resources?
300

The Secretary of State in 1899; interfered with Chinese politics and wanted to end spheres of influence in China and open trade in China to all nations.

Who is John Hay?


300

Name the areas that the US exercised some level of control over after the Spanish American War?

What is Cuba, Guam, the Wake Islands, Puerto Rico & the Philippines?

300

The policy adopted by Teddy Roosevelt to negotiate from strength and making it clear that military action is a possibility. The expression was based off an old African proverb. 

What is Big Stick Diplomacy?

400

What was the controversy that surrounded the explosion of the USS Maine at Havana Harbor in Cuba?

No one knows exactly why it exploded

400
Attack on foreign diplomats in Beijing, foreign powers sent reinforcements and defeated the rebels after two months of fighting.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400

Filipino who led the Philippine Revolution against Spain and then again against the United States.

Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?

400

Issued in 1904, when Germany demanded a port in the Dominican Republic as compensation for an unpaid loan. It stated that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

400
President Taft's policy of maintaining orderly societies abroad through increased American investment in foreign economies.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
500

With the help of the US, rebels sought independence from this country to become the new country of Panama.

What is Colombia?

500
Connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, built from 1904 - 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
500

This Queen of Hawaii continued to resist the US annexation of her country throughout her life.

Who is Queen Liliuokalani?

500

These provisions were part of what act by Congress: The Cuban government could not enter any foreign agreements/make treaties. 

~ The United States is allowed to establish naval bases. 

~ Cuba was not allowed to go into debt. 

~ The United States has the right to intervene whenever necessary.

What is the Platt Amendment

500
Wilson announced his type of diplomacy that the United States would apply standards based on good intentions and values.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
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