Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Diplomacies
Legislation
Territories
100
Taking control of another nation, by direct acquisition, or indirectly via political or economic control.
What is imperialism?
100
Established to battle with the imperialists over the annexation of the Philippines.
What is Anti-Imperialist League?
100
Teddy Roosevelt
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
100
American foreign policy opposing interference and further colonization by Europeans in the Western hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Annexed in 1898
What is Hawaii?
200
Hearst and Pulitzer; over exaggerated journalism
What is yellow journalism?
200
Captain "Black Jack" Pershing
What is the Buffalo Soldiers?
200
Everyone could trade on an even scale.
What is Open Door Policy?
200
Cuban Independence
What is the Treaty of Paris?
200
Seward's Folley
What is Alaska?
300
aggressive patriotism
What is jingoism?
300
50,000 Filipino deaths; 4,300 American deaths
What is the Philippine Insurrection?
300
Roosevelt's greatest "moral imperative"
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Promised Cuba's independence after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Teller Amendment?
300
Split 50/50 between Germany and the U.S.
What is Samoa?
400
Nation controlled by a stronger nation.
What is a protectorate?
400
Used to display America's military might.
What is the Great White Fleet?
400
William Howard Taft
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
400
Aligned with the Monroe Doctrine
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
Overthrown by American sugar growers.
What is Queen Liliuokalani?
500
Section of a country where one foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers.
What is a sphere of influence?
500
Strongest countries were destined to take over the weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Stresses the promotion of democracy and constitutional based government.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
500
U.S. amendments to new Cuban constitution
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
Protectorate for 33 years.
What is Cuba?
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