The practice of extending a nation's power by gaining territories for a colonial empire.
What is imperialism?
100
A Spanish letter that insulted President McKinley and angered American citizens.
What is the De Lome Letter?
100
U.S. president who implemented the Dollar Diplomacy, a less-aggressive foreign policy, which involved encouraging American investment in foreign economies.
Who is William H. Taft?
100
The exaggeration of news stories in an attempt to sell more newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
100
Artificial waterway built by the U.S. that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
Critics called this deal "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox."
What is the purchase of Alaska from Russia?
200
Name of President Roosevelt's foreign policy that used the threat of military force to deter foreign nations.
What is "Big Stick Diplomacy?"
200
An American businessman in Hawaii who, together with a group of American sugar planters and U.S. Marines, overthrew the Hawaiian Queen - Liliuokalani and, in 1894, declared himself president of the Republic of Hawaii without a popular vote.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
200
U.S. battleship that exploded while anchored in a Cuban harbor in 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
200
Teddy Roosevelt's extension to the Monroe Doctrine, which states that the U.S. would use its military to prevent European nations from interfering in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
This place, annexed in 1898 because the U.S. needed naval stations in the Pacific, became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
300
A product of yellow journalism in the U.S. that resulted in a feeling of strong national pride and a desire for an aggressive foreign policy.
What is jingoism?
300
Two New York newspaper owners who used yellow journalism in an attempt to out-sell the other.
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
300
The First Volunteer "Cowboy" Cavalry led by Teddy Roosevelt who participated in the famous battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
Who are the Rough Riders?
300
The U.S. became known as a world power following this incident.
What is the surprise attack on Spanish ships in Manila Bay, Philippines?
400
An American approach to China around 1900, favoring open trade relations between China and other nations, which would give the U.S. access to millions of consumers in China.
What is Open Door Policy?
400
American business leaders favored this in order to solve the economic problem of overproduction in the U.S.
What is expansionism?
400
In his book, he argued that the economic future of the U.S. hinged on gaining new markets abroad and that a powerful navy was necessary to protect these markets from foreign rivals.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
400
The sinking of a U.S. ship occurred in this Cuban harbor on February 15, 1898.
What is the Havana harbor?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
American intervention in this country under President Woodrow Wilson led to strong anti-American feelings in Latin America.
What is Mexico?
500
Factors that led to the burst of American imperialism in the late 1800's (there are 6 of them):
What are economic, militarism, political, ideological, religious, and exploratory factors?
500
It is the U.S.'s fate or divine right to spread across the North American continent and to be free from European influence; any attempts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention (identify both terms in the correct order).
What are the Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine?
500
President McKinley's Secretary of State who called for an "Open Door Policy" with China.
Who is John Hay?
500
Three territories gained by the U.S. for $20 million following their defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War were:
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
500
The amendment added to the new Cuban Constitution, giving the U.S. the right to establish naval bases in Cuba and intervene in Cuban affairs whenever necessary.