What is The Policy by which stronger nation extend their economic, political, or military control, over weaker national or territories.
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Who was president in 1898?
What is William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901, six months into his second term.
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How did the Spanish-american war begin?
The spanish amercan war was fought between the united states and spain in 1898 and was a very short war under president william mckinley. It began because the spanish were treating the cubans, their terittory at the time, badly; and the united states wanted cuba and other spanish territories because of the idea of imperialism, the idea of one contry expanding their ideas and conquering other territories.
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President Theodore Roosevelt’s policies toward Latin America were evidence of his belief in....
What is intervention when American business interests were threatened
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Who is William Seward?
What is A Secretary of State under president Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson
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What is a Yellow Journalism?
What is A style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the news.
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What did the US gain as a result of the Spanish American War?
What is Cuba technically gained its independence after the war ended, the United States government ensured that it had some form of power and control over Cuban affairs. The U.S. annexed the former Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.
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Three Most Important Consequences of The Spanish-American War?
What is American intervention prevented an army largely made up of Blacks from taking over an island so near to the US: that was the main purpose of the intervention, which gave independent Cuba over to its white ruling class, which in return permitted the island's exploitation by American agro-business and later also by Americans.
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What United States foreign policy was most directly related to the rise of big business in the late 1800s?
What is imperialism
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Who is Luis Munoz Rivera
What is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.
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what is a Roosevelt Corollary?
What is A 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine allowing in the US to be the "Policeman" in Latin America.
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How long did the Spanish American War?
What is The war officially ended four months later, when the U.S. and Spanish governments signed the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. Apart from guaranteeing the independence of Cuba, the treaty also forced Spain to cede Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States.
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The Republican Presidents of the 1920’s generally followed a foreign policy based on....
What is noninvolvement
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Yellow journalists created support for the Spanish-American War by writing articles about the......
What is sinking of the United States battleship Maine in Havana Harbor
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Who is Jose Marti?
What is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.
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What is An Anti-Imperialist?
What is A group of well-known Americans that believed the US should not deny other people the right to govern themselves.
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how did the US get Alaska?
What is The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million.
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The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would...
What is view European interference in the Americas as a threat to the national interest of the United States.
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What factor is most closely associated with the decision of the United States to declare war on Spain in 1898?
What is yellow journalism
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Who is Matthew Perry?
What is a Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the Mexican–American War and the War of 1812.
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The is the U.S.S Maine?
What is A US Warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba on Feb. 15, 1898.
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How did the Latin American policies of Taft and Wilson differ?
What is Taft was more likely to attempt to deal with Latin America in diplomatic terms, while Wilson believed that we had to deal with them from a position of force . . . "gunboat diplomacy.
The US was quicker to intervene in Latin American affairs under Wilson.
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In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine was established mainly because the United States wanted to.....
What is warn Europe against any further colonization in Latin America
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how was puerto rico acquired by the us?
What is On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States with a landing at Guánica. As an outcome of the war, the Jones–Shafroth Act granted all the inhabitants of Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship in 1917