49 and 50
We bought Alaska from this country for 2 cents an acre
What is Russia?
This country controlled Cuba.
What is Spain?
The ocean that separates us from Spain
What is the Atlantic?
Liliuokalani
Who was the Queen of Hawaii?
The three forms of imperial power
What are military, political and economic?
The three main resources in Alaska
What are oil, timber and gold?
Sensational headlines and exaggerated or false stories
What is yellow journalism?
The ocean in which Hawaii is located
What is the Pacific?
Rough Rider and future president into land and water conservation, Pure Food and Drug Act, and more
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
What are resources, trade, spread ideas/values and military needs?
The name of the American military base in Hawaii
What is Pearl Harbor?
Blew up due to a mystery explosion killing all 255+ Americans on board
What is the USS Maine?
Man-made water passageway connecting Atlantic to Pacific
What was the Panama Canal?
Hearst and Pullitzer
Who were the two Yellow Journalism newspaper giants/owners
The OG imperialist giant in the world
What is the UK/England?
Sugar cane, pineapples and a military base
What is why America wanted Hawaii
We got these places from Spain, too.
What are Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam and/or Wake Island?
US earliest acquisition in 1898
What is Puerto Rico?
Pineapple plantation owner who helped to overthrow the queen
Who was Stanford Dole?
The idea that America was destined by God to take over and expand.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What the American people called the purchase of Alaska
What was Seward's Folly?
Two natural resources we got from Cuba.
What are sugar and tobacco, rubber, rum...
Harbor where the USS Maine exploded
President (later assassinated) who got pressured into declaring war against Spain
Who was McKinley?
Every imperialist country has a strong one of these in their military branch.
What is a navy?