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100
It was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin America.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
A disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Symptoms include fever, headache, jaundice, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue.
What is Yellow Fever?
100
This American writer, and most famous member of the Anti-Imperialist League, was a bitter critic of Imperialism.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
It exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 and precipitated U.S. entry into the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine
100
A man made waterway dug across Panama to shorten the trip between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
Policy by which stronger nations extend their political, economic, and military, control over weaker territories.
What is Imperialism?
100
A person who seeks to promote human welfare; a philanthropist.
What is a humanitarian? 
200
The United States annexed this chain of islands in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley.
What is Hawaii?
200
Secretary of State John Hay’s policy of opposing European colonies and spheres of influence in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
200
Commander of the U.S. squadron that destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and occupied the Philippines.
Who is Commodore Dewey? 
200
A new technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing & even distorting news events to arouse interest and invoke sympathy.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to international relations that depended on a strong military to achieve its aims.
What is “Big Stick” policy?
200
This Cuban revolutionary organized a rebellion while in exile in the United States. He was killed fighting for Cuban independence.
Who is Jose’ Marti?
200
It is the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling, used to justify European imperialism.
What is “White Man’s Burden?"
300
It's located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
300
Naval historian who advocated for naval power as the basis for a great nation. He wrote the book The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
300
A former Spanish colony 90 miles off the Florida Coast. The U.S. decided to intervene in 1898 and liberate this and other territories.
What is Cuba?
300
Hawaiian monarch dethroned in 1893 by rebel American planters in an action backed by U.S. Marines.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
300
Volunteer cavalry unit assembled by Theodore Roosevelt, famous for their 1898 charge at San Juan Hill.
What is the Rough Riders?
300
After its defeat in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded this longstanding colony to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. Spain sold this territory to the United States for $20 million.
What is the Philippines? 
300
Owner of the New York Journal who, along with Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World, started the Yellow Press.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
400
Described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and declare a state of war if they refused.
What was the Ostend Manifesto?
400
President Taft’s policy to encourage investment rather than use force in Latin America.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
400
This Treaty formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in the negotiations.
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
400
The United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. 
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
It was written by the Spanish Prime minister of Cuba in which he described McKinley as a "weak and feeble president".
What was the De Lomé Letter?
400
This was the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War that took place half way around the world near the Philippines.
What is Manila Bay?
400
A violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China toward the end of the Qing dynasty.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
This fight for high ground was the bloodiest and most famous battle of the Spanish American War.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
500
Zones in China that gave European powers exclusive access to commerce.
What is Spheres of Influence? 
500
An organization founded in 1898 to protest and combat the nation's forcible overseas expansion. 
What is an Anti-Imperialist League?
500
This proclaimed a set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
Wilson's "waiting to see what happens" gave way to an invasion of Mexico because of the actions of a Mexican bandit - Pancho Villa.
What is “Watchful Waiting?” 
500
Roosevelt’s reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine to keep the Western Hemisphere free from intervention by European powers.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
It proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?