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What is the economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker ones called?
Imperialism
What was it called when writers exaggerated or made-up stories to attract readers?
Yellow Journalism
What is the idea that English-speaking countries were superior to others called?
Anglo-Saxonism
What was the idea that the U.S. and Latin American nations should work together called?
Pan-Americanism
What is a foreign area called whose rulers are allowed to retain power in exchange for protection of a more powerful nation?
Protectorate
What is aggressive nationalism known as?
Jingoism
What was John Hay’s idea known as in which all nations agreed to let the others trade with China?
The Open Door Policy
Theodore Roosevelt became president because of the assignation of which president?
William McKinley
What Spanish territory did the U.S. gain when Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish navy in Manila Bay?
The Philippines
What gave the U.S. trading rights at two Japanese ports?
Treaty of Kanagawa
What U.S. naval officer helped to build public support for the idea that a nation needed large fleets of ships?
Captain Alfred Mahan
The volunteer cavalry unit in the Spanish American war known as the Rough Riders were lead by who?
Theodore Roosevelt
What was it called when Chinese loyalists attacked foreign embassies killing more than 200 foreigners whom they believed were corrupting Chinese society?
Boxer Rebellion
Who conducted a raid into Columbus, New Mexico killing 17 Americans?
Pancho Villa
What was William Howard Taft’s policy toward supporting Latin American industry?
Dollar Diplomacy
On December 10, 1898, the U.S. and Spain signed what, ending the Spanish American War
Treaty of Paris
President Theodore Roosevelt and others believed that acquiring and constructing what, was vital to U.S. Power in the world and would save time and money for commercial and military shipping.
Panama Canal
The Commercial Bureau of the American Republic established to promote cooperation among nations in the Western Hemisphere is now called what?
Organization of American States
Who did President Millard Fillmore order to negotiate a trade treaty with Japan?
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
What law established a civil government for Puerto Rico?
Foraker Act
What stated the United States would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere?
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
President Theodore Roosevelt believed that displaying U.S. Power to the world would deter nations from fighting. He expressed this belief with what West African saying?
Foreign nations that controlled economic development in China were known as what?
Sphere of Influence
What two U.S.’s major newspapers wrote stories of Spanish atrocities and swayed many Americans in Cuban rebels’ favor?
New York Journal and New York World
What were the two main goals that Secretary of State James Blaine had for the Pan-American Conference of 1889?
1. To create a customs union requiring all nations of the Western Hemisphere to reduce tariffs against each other and treat each other equally in trade.
2. To create a system for nations of the Western Hemisphere to work out disputes peacefully, while also keeping Europeans from meddling in American affairs.