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100

journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes news to attract readers

What is Yellow Journalism?

100

The two countries where fighting occurred. 

What are the Philippines and Cuba?

100

The territories that the U.S. gained from the Spanish-American war.

What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines?

100

This place: 

What is Alaska?

200

the process of one country establishing control over another area or people

What is colonization?

200

The name of Teddy Roosevelt's volunteer soldiers

Who were the Rough Riders?
200

The two major reasons that the U.S. overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy

What are military and economic advantages?

200

This place: 

What is Hawaii?

300

a political practice where a nation extends its power and control over other nations or peoples

what is imperialism?

300

The government's reason for the U.S. going to war in Cuba

What is Cuban independence (which would lead to more American influence over the Caribbean)?

300
The Platt agreement in 1901 allowed the U.S. to...

What is intervene in Cuban affairs?

300

This country:

What is Cuba?

400

when a country avoids involvement in international affairs

What is isolationism?

400

The reason that fighting continued in the Philippines even though the war had ended

What is Filipinos not getting their independence?

400

The amount the U.S. paid Russia for Alaska

What is $7.2 million?

400

This country: 

What is the Philippines?

500

The signed document that guaranteed the independence of Cuba. It also forced Spain to cede Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States.

What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?

500

The slogan that impassioned Americans for the war (both lines)

What is "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain"

500

The name of the Hawaiian queen who was forced to sign the nation over to the U.S.

Who is Liliuokalani?

500

This territory:

What is Guam?

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