Geography New
This West Central African colony was controlled by the Belgian government
Congo
The ending of this economic nightmare led to European countries increasing their colonizing efforts in Africa and Asia
Slave Trade
This fruit became so synonymous with American intervention that we named the puppet governments after it.
Banana
This was the name of the belief that God granted WASP Americans a fate to conquer the entire Americas, but they needed to take matters into their own hands
Manifest Destiny
This was made Teddy Roosevelt an international celebrity due to his victory as San Juan Hill as the lead Rough Rider
Spanish American War
This West Central African colony was controlled by the Portuguese
Angola
This was America's threat to protect the integrity of our sister republics against European colonization.
Monroe Doctrine
This Mobile fruit peddler amassed such a fortune he paid mercenaries to overthrow a foreign government
Sam the Banana Man
This was the name of the would-be-Napoleon who tried to conquer parts of Mexico and Central America in the 1850s.
William Walker
This was Teddy's promise to enforce the Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
This north African colony was home to the Nile delta
Egypt
Until the 1890s, we lacked a strong, modern one of these that was necessary to keep European countries from messing with our sister republics in the Americas.
navy
This Louisiana soldier of fortune went to Central America to overthrow an elected official
Lee Christmas
This American was not the Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny who tried to conquer Nicaragua, but he did try to civilize the "savage" Blacks and Indians in the area in the name of God.
This was the name of the navy Teddy Roosevelt used to demonstrate American power
Great White Fleet
This colony to the south was controlled by both the Dutch and the English and is currently in the news due to Elon Musk
South Africa
This is the name of a small war fought between France and Mexico over property damages in a bakery.
Pastry War
These brothers started in the icebox industry before expanding into shipping bananas from Honduras to the Gulf Coast.
Vaccaro Brothers
This transportation tycoon encouraged American colonization of Nicaragua in order to stabilize the shipping route that ran through it.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This was the name of the ship that exploded, which we blamed on Spain
USS Maine
This country controlled the only colony in East Africa that appears in your study guide for this unit
Germany
this was a famous path taken by travelers trying to reach the American West.
Oregon Trail.
This fruit company overthrew Guatemala with the help of the CIA over property value and taxes
United Fruit Company
the Grey-eyed Man of Destiny offered to "regenerate" Nicaragua, by fixing problems such as this deadly disease that plagued the Transit Route.
Cholera
Besides Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, we also liberated this island from Spanish control
Cuba