The Colonized
Ideologies and Policies
Voices of Protest
Voices of Support
Immigration and Cities
100
Despite this Pacific island nation's population contributing significantly to US armed forces, its citizens cannot vote, nor do they have representation in Congress.
Guam
100
The belief that white Americans were entitled to spread westward, displacing Native Americans.
Manifest Destiny
100
This Cuban poet-revolutionary warned that the American "monster" would use the war against Spain to control Cuba.
Jose Marti
100
This American businessman led efforts to annex Hawaii, leading to the overthrow of Queen Lil'uokalani.
Sanford B. Dole
100
The process by which people move from rural (country) areas to cities, resulting in a huge growth in cities.
Urbanization
200
The US gained what became Texas, California and the lands in between by launching a war against this nation in 1848.
Mexico
200
Idea that holds that the US is unique and superior to other nations
Exceptionalism
200
Shawnee leader who criticized white Americans' efforts to divide up and land that should be shared collectively.
Tecumseh
200
As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he gained fame for his embellished assault on Spanish troops on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Theodore Roosevelt
200
This was used to justify the mistreatment of non-white immigrants.
"Scientific" racism
300
This group faced genocide as white settlers expanded the American frontier westward.
Native Americans
300
The right of a group to govern themselves
Sovereignty
300
Puerto Rican poet and representative to Congress who claimed that the island nation would always seek independence.
Luis Munoz Rivera
300
Style of journalism known for its sensationalized, sometimes-fabricated stories
Yellow Journalism
300
This law, passed in 1882, severely restricted Chinese immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
After "liberating" Cuba from Spain, the US demanded that the island nation include this provision in its Constitution, greatly undermining its independence.
The Platt Amendment
400
This presidential declaration warned European powers to stay out of the Americas, establishing the US as the dominant power in the region.
Monroe Doctrine
400
American writer who became a leading voice in the Anti-Imperialism League with his criticism of the war against the Philippines.
Mark Twain/ Samuel Clemens
400
American President who claimed that God told him to take over the Philippines to "Christianize" the people there, despite the fact that nearly all Filipinos were already Catholics.
William McKinley
400
Overcrowded, dangerous apartment buildings populated by immigrants in industrial cities
Tenements
500
After promising this Pacific island nation independence, the US launched a brutal invasion resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilian lives.
The Philippines
500
Economic system in which private individuals, rather than the government, own key resources and sell them for profit.
Capitalism
500
Hawaiian nationalist leader who spoke out against US annexation of the island.
James Keauiluna Kaulia
500
Newspaper publisher credited with saying, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
William Randolph Hearst
500
This is a parody of what famous newspaper cartoon character? 
The Yellow Kid