The Roots of Imperialism
The common reason many powerful countries sought to gain land
What is the desire for raw materials
This industry manipulated the masses and sensationalized Spain's violence in Cuba.
What is the media?
This soldier, who helped to end the war, collected a complete plan of defenses of the Hindenburg battle line.
Whos is Lt. Rollings
In 1900, Congress passed this act, which established a civil government in Puerto Rico AND authorized the President of the United States to appoint a governor.
What is the Foraker Act?
True or False
Limited Supply decreases the demand
False
The historian and naval officer that urged American leaders to build a stronger navy
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
On February 15, 1898 an explosion ripped through the hull of this newly built boat in Havana Harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
Allied and Central powers came to this agreement in December, 1914.
What is the Christmas Truce?
Congress obliged, or insisted, that Cuba add to its constitution this amendment that restricted the rights of newly independent Cubans and granted the US the right to intervene to preserve order in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
_______ is the action of allocating resources, usually money, in order to generate income, or profit over time
Investment
In this year America purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.
What is 1867?
The media's sensationalizing and exaggerating produced this type of aggressive nationalism known as..
What is jingoism?
This type of warfare became the normal for many battles on the Western Front and elsewhere in WWI.
What is trench warfare?
Historians have labeled Roosevelt's policies this because it depended on a strong military to achieve America's goals.
What is "big stick" diplomacy?
An economic system in which decision regarding investment, production, and distribution are guided by price signals created by supply and demand.
What is a market economy?
Though the annexation of Hawaii did not officially happen until 1898, American planters convinced King Kalakaua to limit voting rights to this group of people.
Who are wealthy landowners OR white planters.
On April 19, 1898 US Congress enacted 4 resolutions, essentially declaring war on Spain, and the 4th resolution known as the _______ __________ stated that the US had no intention of annexing Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
On May 31st 1918, the USS Lincoln was torpedoed by a German submarine and this soldier escaped and was ultimately able to pass on his intelligence in October of that year.
Who was Edoard Izac?
In order to build the Panama Canal builders constructed a series of these to raise the level of the boat to Gatun Lake.
What are locks?
Due to this irregular rising and falling of value of investments some people hesitate to commit to long term investments.
What is fluctuation?
Native Hawaiians that are still opposed to the annexation of Hawaii as a state strive to gain this.
What is native sovereignty or the ability to self-rule?
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the war. Spain gave up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Pacific island of Guam. Spain sold this group of islands to the US for 20 million dollars.
What is the Philippines?
This soldier opted to not kill an already injured German Corporal Hitler.
Who is Sergeant Henry Tandey
This president promised that the US would "never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Look on page 819 the dollar value of all final good and services produced within a country's border for a single year
What is GDP, or Gross Domestic Product?