Vocabulary
The policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force; rule by an emperor
What is Imperialism?
The nation’s policies toward other countries.
What is Foreign Policy?
Unbalanced, sensationalized reporting intended to sell more papers
What is Yellow Journalism?
This War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This ended the war between Spain and America.
What is The Treaty of Paris?
The policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is Isolationism?
One nation becomes too powerful, other nations band together to protect themselves or make sure that the one nation does not over-throw them.
What is Balance of Power?
The Ship that exploded and sunk causing over 200 crew member to die.
What is the U.S.S Maine?
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
What is Mercantilism?
This Country was sold for $20 Million.
What is the Philippines?
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifestation Destiny?
The Constitution divides this power between Congress and the President.
What is Control Of US Foreign Policy?
The Spanish ambassador to the U.S.
What is De Lomé?
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
What is Colonization?
The need for raw materials, markets and nationalism.
What is the reason for U.S expansion?
The war between Spain and the US in the Caribbean and the Philippines in 1898. American public opinion having been aroused by Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the destruction of the warship Maine in Santiago harbor, the US declared war and successfully invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, all of which Spain gave up by the Treaty of Paris (1898).
What is the Spanish-American War?
The idea that while citizens in each country are subject to law, the governments of nations are not subject to international laws in all cases.
What is the International Anarchy?
The U.S agreed to cease fire on the country during the war.
What is Cuba?
The largest and most southern of the Mariana Islands, administered as an unincorporated territory of the US; capital, Agaña.
What is Guam?
The author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.
What is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
The island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea; capital, San Juan. One of the earliest Spanish settlements in the New World, it was ceded to the US in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1952 it became a commonwealth in voluntary association with the US with full powers of local government.
What is Puerto Rico?
The idea to stay out of other nations’ problems and remain isolated
What is Traditional Foreign Policy?
The place where the first war was fought.
What is the Philippines?
An unincorporated overseas territory of the US that is composed of a group of islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, east of Western Samoa and south of Kiribati; capital, Fagatogo.
What is American Samoa?
These people felt that the United States was based on the ideals of democracy and self-government and that to impose our rule on others was hypocrisy.
What are Anti-Imperialist?