Imperialism Policy
This is a tax on products that are imported into the USA
What is a tariff?
What is the name of the U.S ship that blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898?
What is the U.S.S Maine
This is the country where we started the Spanish American war because the USS Maine was bombed in Havana.
What is Cuba?
In 1893, with the help of the United States Marines, pineapple planter Sanford B. Dole removed Queen Lilliuokalani from power and annexed this territory
What is Hawaii
What is the name for a journalist who wants to clean up society by writing, reporting or taking photographs
What is a muckraker
Who was the woman who was placed under house arrest for resisting the annexation of Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
This is the idea that all powerful countries should conquer other ones - ends in "ism"
What is imperialism?
What was the main reason that the USA started the Spanish American war?
Yellow journalism
The addition of a new territory to an existing country. What we did to Hawaii. This is known as
What is annexation
What was the reason why Hawaii was so important from a military/naval perspective?
Ships could take on water and resupply in the middle of the Pacific Ocaan
What is the name of the riot where workers threw a bomb in a main Chicago Square and turned the people of the USA against them and anti-union?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
What is the name of the national public lands where you may mine, log, or sustainably use the land
National Forest
This is the President who volunteered to fight in Cuba in the "Rough Riders"
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
What were at least two features of yellow journalism?
Lies - fake news to make people angry/fearful
Large headlines in CAPITAL LETTERS
Lots of pictures and images
Why did the USA want to annex Hawaii besides avoiding tariffs?
Having a naval base there
The United States gained other territories besides Cuba in the Spanish American War. What is at least one of them>
What is Puerto Rico and Guam
This was the most violent episode in the history of the US labor movement, with women and children burned to death
What is the Ludlow Massacre
This is the person who used police reports and interviews to document that lynching took place because black businesses outcompeted white ones
Ida B Wells
This is one of the people who founded Yellow Journalism, that got us into the Spanish American War
Who is William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Pulitzer
What is one reason why they USA wanted the Phlippines
For Manila Bay - one of the best harbors in Asia
This is the leader of the Philippine Independence vs. Spain. After he and we won, we did not leave.
Who is Emiliano Aguinaldo
Cuba was allowed to become a independent nation after the Spanish-American war. But then the USA installed the government of a 2rd Caribbean island. What is this island? .
What is Puerto Rico
This man took a job inside a slaughterhouse in order to write the book, The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
What is the term for the USA being covered with gold, but underneath it, there is corruption and inequality
Gilded Age
After the Spanish American War, our Secretary of State John Hay, thought it was great, calling it a
Splandid Little War
This is the President who was Anti-Imperialist. He said Queen Liliuokalani should be put back on her throne.
Who is Grover Cleveland
This is the amendment that restricted Cuba's ability to make treaties or make foreign policy with other countries or otherwise run its own budget. It allowed the USA land to build a military base.
What is the Platt Amendment
The plantation owners in Hawaii first tried to take over the island by imposing a bad constitution on the native people of Hawaii. What did this Bayonet Constitution do?
Took away the voting rights of all native Hawaiians
This man used photography to show the filthy dangerous conditions of the slums of New York
Jacob Riis?
Name at least reasons why the USA annexed Hawaii
Tariffs on Hawaiian sugar
To get a refueling/resupply station in the Pacific
To get Pearl Harbor