TERMS
What is it called when newspapers or writers print/write sensational over dramatic stories to pull at the readers emotions?
yellow journalism
What was the name of the calvary unit led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American War?
Cuba
What was the name of the ship that was sunk in Havana Harbor, thus helping start the Spanish American War?
U.S.S. Maine
What was the name of the list of conditions that was given to Cuba by the United States after the Spanish American War?
Platt Amendment
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Spanish American War in 1898?
Treaty of Paris
What was the name of the league created for those that were against using imperialism?
Anti-Imperialist League
What was the name of the island that drew us due to its massive amounts of sugar and cotton?
Hawaii
What was the name of the policy used in the Asian part of the world, primarily China, that focused on trade?
Open Door Policy
What does it mean to be a protector over another country?
protectorate
What does it mean to add a territory to your country?
annexation
Which president used the Big Stick foreign policy?
Theodore Roosevelt
What part of the world was the Roosevelt Corollary primarily aimed at during the Theodore Roosevelt administration?
Latin America
What was the name of the navy commander who wanted to expand and grow the U.S. navy to keep up with imperialism?
Alfred T. Mahan
Foreign trading and foreign involvement in the country of China led to what uprising by Chinese citizens who didn't like Western influence?
Boxer Rebellion
What was the name of the foreign policy focused on limiting European expansion into the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
Which president used the Dollar foreign diplomacy?
William Howard Taft
Who did the United States buy Alaska from?
Russia
What were 2 causes of the Spanish American War?
Answers will vary:
yellow journalism, De Lome Letter, need for sugar plantations, mistreatment of Cubans by Spain, explosion of U.S.S. Maine, imperialism
What was the main focus of Taft's Dollar Diplomacy?
Using money to invest into other countries to slowly bring them over to our side and extend our influence/borders.
What extension did Theodore Roosevelt add to the Monroe Doctrine to include Latin America?
Roosevelt Corollary
Which president used the Moral or Missionary foreign policy?
Woodrow Wilson
Panama Canal
What was the opposite of imperialism or the belief that the United States should stick to its own affairs?
isolationism
What was the main focus of Wilson's Moral or Missionary Diplomacy?
Using the Christian religion and good morality to bring countries over to our side to spread our influence and control.