People
"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick."
Teddy Roosevelt
The Spark
USS Maine
Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Author: "And so, I am an Anti-Imperialist. I am opposed to having the Eagle's talons all over the globe."
Mark Twain
How long the "Splendid Little War" lasts.
4 months
President during the Spanish American War
McKinley
Roosevelt's regiment in Cuba
Rough Riders
Exaggerated sensationalized reporting
Yellow Journalism
Country that stood in the way of us building the Panama Canal
Columbia
How many sailors died aboard the USS Maine
266
yellow journalist
Hearst or Pulitzer
An island we gain from Spain in the Treaty of Paris that is also in the "Bridge to Asia"
Guam
Purchase Philippines
The US Navy on a parade around the world
Great White Fleet
Bob Marley song we listened to in class.
Buffalo Soldier
the Year the US became a World Power.
1898
General sent to Cuba to squash the rebellion nicknamed "the Butcher" by the US press
Weyler
The opposite of the Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
a popular poem turned cartoon
White Man's Burden
Quote that showed Britain was imperialist before the US and we wanted to catch up.
"The sun never set on the British Empire."
Purchase of the Philippines
$20 million
Friend turned Rebel in the Philippines -- "we gained an enemy"
Emilio Aguinaldo
Hero in the Philippines for sinking the Spanish fleet
Dewey
Feeling superior, hidden agendas, wanting to be number one, and being a "world police"
Imperialism
Added to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US had the right to police and control the Western Hemisphere.
Roosevelt's Corollary
Panama canal created a ___ ocean navy
2