What year did the Spanish-American War take place?
What is 1898
100
This theory believed in the "survival of the fittest" among businesses and social classes. Named after a famous explorer.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
This ensured that the USA would not annex Cuba after the war
What is the Teller Amendment
100
Foreign policy that all nations should have equal access to trade in China
What is open door policy
100
This is the role of one people by another.
What is imperialism?
200
What was the name of the cuban revolutionary who organized a rebellion while in exile in the United States?
Who is Jose Marti?
200
In 1898, congress passed this promising that the United States would not annex Cuba, even if they won the war.
What is the Teller Amendment?
200
These were two American possessions in the Pacific
What is the Philippines and Hawaii
200
A group of Chinese who were opposed to foreign influence in China. They murdered Chinese Christians and threatened the lives of foreigners in China during their rebellion.
What is Boxers
200
This person defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and occupied the Philippines for the U.S Navy.
Who is Commodore George Dewey?
300
How much money did America have in Cuban investments?
What is $50 million.
300
This person wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" in 1890.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
300
This was what the United States considered Cuba
What is informal protectorate
300
Roosevelt negotiated this treaty to mediate the conflict (The Russo-Japanese War)
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth
300
This league included prominent members such as Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie.
What is The American Anti-Imperialist League?
400
What two events triggered the Spanish-American War?
What is The De Lome Letter and the sinking of the U.S.S Maine.
400
This was a peace treaty with Spain ending the war, since its terms made the United States an imperial power.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
This is what President McKinley promised Congress
What is Cuba would have a "stable government"
400
This allowed the United States fleet to avoid going all the way around South America.
What is the Panama Canal
400
This is the name of the sensational works Hearst and Pulitzer created that motivated Americans to intervene.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
General Weyler did this to Cuban peasants to suppress the rebellion.
What is forcing them into concentration camps.
500
This was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899.
What is "The Whit Man's Burden"
500
The USA wanted to annex Hawaii for these reasons
What is the annexation of Cuba would economically link the USA and the Pacific. Hawaii was also a great natural harbor for the US Navy.
500
This was what the USA was called when they refused to let European countries collect debts that the Dominican Republic owed them. The USA collected the debts for the European countries