Land
This land was appealing to the U.S. because it was a good fueling stop on the way to China. This was eventually admitted as the 50th state years later.
Hawaii
This cause was a ship that got destroyed in Cuba.
Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
T/F: The Panama Canal shortened the ocean route from the east coast to west coast.
True
Many people in the U.S. believed that they had a God-given right to expand across the seas as they had done across the continent.
New Manifest Destiny
These are territories that the U.S. still controls today.
Guam & Puerto Rico
This cause was motivated by money.
Economic interests in Cuba
This was how the U.S. acquired the land for the Panama Canal.
Revolution organized by Americans
President McKinley
This was never a U.S. territory, but the U.S. controlled it off and on for 30 years.
Cuba
This cause was motivated by New Manifest Destiny.
Desire to demonstrate American power in the world
Atlantic and Pacific
This president advocated for the Panama Canal to be built.
Theodore Roosevelt
This was where the Spanish American War began. The U.S. controlled this land until the end of World War II.
Philippines
This cause was based on exaggerated newspaper writing.
Yellow journalism
The Canal is a passageway between these two continents.
North America and South America
The name of a strip of land with water on either side, forming a bridge between two areas of land.
Isthmus
This word means taking a piece of land or place by conquest or occupation.
Annexation
This cause was motivated by helping people.
Humanitarianism (concern for the Cuba people)
This was the year the U.S. began construction on the Canal.
1904
This word means wanting to control or influence other nations politically, economically, or militarily.
Imperialism