This country was forced to open its sphere of influence through the Open Door Policy.
What is China?
100
The idea that a country is better left minding its own business.
What is isolationism?
100
This island country is the location of the Guantanamo Bay military base.
What is Cuba?
100
This president urged America from getting involved in "entangling alliances" during his farewell address.
Who is George Washington?
100
The US Navy changed in this way between 1890 and Roosevelt's time in office.
What is became larger and more powerful.
200
This was the main reason American wanted China to adopt an Open Door Policy.
What is trading within China and access to Asian markets?
200
The policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.
What is imperialism?
200
The United States got involved in Panama for this reason.
What is to build the Panama Canal?
200
Early in the 20th century, President William Taft used the concept of dollar diplomacy to do this.
What is protect United States investment in Latin America?
200
The crazy headlines of this type of news caused angry, emotional reactions that helped get the U.S. into the Spanish American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
The open door policy was successful because of America's friendship with this international power.
What is Great Britain?
300
This Spanish politician insulted the President McKinley in a letter published in a New York newspaper.
Who is Enrique De Lome?
300
In exchange for control of the Panama Canal zone, the U.S. helped Panama achieve independence from which country?
What is Colombia?
300
This is Woodrow Wilson's policy that any regimes oppressive to their people, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests would not be recognized by the United States.
What is moral diplomacy?
300
This is the reason the United States did not involve itself in overseas expansion prior to the 1800s.
What is the U.S. was more concerned with internal improvements and westward expansion?
400
A series of diplomatic notes asking that all foreign powers allow other foreign powers equal opportunity to trade within their sphere of influence.
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
Free Cubans from Spanish oppression, find new markets and raw materials, the Delome Letter, the explosion of the USS Maine, yellow journalism.
What are reasons the U.S. entered the Spanish American War?
400
This ship blew up in Havana harbor leading America to declare war on Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
400
This American president adopted "Big Stick" diplomacy in which he guarded the western hemisphere against influence from European nations.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
This philosophy encouraged President McKinley to insist that Filipinos were incapable of governing themselves.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
This rebellion of Chinese nationalists caused the United States and Britain to move into China to protect their trading.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
This result of the American victory in the Spanish-American war gave the United States power over Cuba and guaranteed the U.S. a naval base at Guantanamo.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
This is what makes Mr. Bruton so darn cool.
What is errething.
500
William Howard Taft's policy of promising to protect American investment in Latin America.
What is dollar diplomacy?
500
Involvement in the Spanish -American War, acquisition of Hawaii, and introduction of the Open Door Policy in China were actions taken by the United States government to do this.
What is expand overseas in search of new markets and raw materials.