Imperialism
What did Americans call the purchase of Alaska?
Seward’s Folly or Seward’s Ice Box
What was the sensational reporting that newspapers participated in called?
Yellow Journalism
What did Admiral Perry use to influence the Japanese to accept a US peace treaty?
Gunboat Diplomacy
What volunteer group did Roosevelt lead into Cuba during the Spanish-American War?
Rough Riders
What were the Chinese rebels called that fought against foreign developers?
Boxers
Why did Americans first go to Hawaii, leading to eventual annexation of the island?
Set up missions: Anglo-Saxonism
What ended the Spanish-American War?
Treaty of Paris
What was the area that a foreign nation controlled for economic development in China called?
Sphere of Influence
Roosevelt won the Nobel peace prize for negotiating a peace treaty between what two countries?
Russia and Japan
What was President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy known as?
Moral Diplomacy
How did the United States maintain some control over Cuba after they were granted independence?
Platt Amendment
What were the four colonies Spain controlled that were fought over during the war?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Guam
The declaration that the US would intervene in Latin American affairs to maintain stability (keep Europe out) in the Western Hemisphere was known as what?
Roosevelt Corollary
What accomplishment was Roosevelt able to claim that was critical to developing a “two-ocean navy”?
Building Panama Canal
Who was responsible for opening Japan for trade with America?
Commodore Matthew Perry
Identify the three causes/factors that lead to US Imperialism.
Economic Concerns
Military Strategies
Anglo-Saxonism
What were three consequences of the Spanish-American War?
What other presidential diplomatic declaration did the Roosevelt Corollary amend?
Monroe Doctrine
President Taft had similar diplomatic goals to President Roosevelt. What was Taft’s policy called?
Dollar Diplomacy
Who wrote the book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783?
Alfred T. Mahan
What was the consequence of forcing Japan to open trade and open their ports to America?
They began building their military (and industrial revolution)
What were the four main causes of the Spanish-American War?
Empathy for rebellion
US investments in Cuba
Yellow Journalism
Sinking of the USS Maine
What did President McKinley and his Sec. of State John Hay support that allowed all countries to trade with China?
Open Door Policy
Theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of whom?
William McKinley
Chinese resentments and dislike of foreign traders in China led to this event
the Boxer Rebellion