Refused to annex Hawaii despite pressure from expansionists.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
100
The proclamation that formed the basis for US foreign policy, declared that the American continents were free from European intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
A series of Pacific islands that the US purchased from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
100
The belief that imperialism is wrong - usually for moral reasons.
What is anti-imperialism?
200
An island freed by the US in the Spanish-American War, but then controlled by the US as a protectorate from 1898.
What is Cuba?
200
Editor of the New York Journal newspaper in the 1890s, helped to introduce yellow journalism
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
200
The use of sensationalistic stories by newspapers in order to sell copies, peaked during the Spanish American War.
What is yellow journalism?
200
A Caribbean island that the US acquired from Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
American ships sent to Japan - means a Western threat to the nation and culture of Japan
What is black ships?
300
A Pacific island that the US acquired from Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What is Guam?
300
He declared war on Spain in 1898, resulting in new territorial acquisitions for the US.
Who is William McKinley?
300
An agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
Lead the Rough Riders in Cuba in the Spanish-American War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
Extending a country's power by territorial gain or economic or political dominance over another land.
What is imperialism?
400
A series of islands annexed by the US in 1898 with no rebellion or war to follow.
What is Hawaii?
400
Best known for the Monroe Doctrine, which formed the basis for US foreign policy.
Who is James Monroe?
400
A writer and satirist in the late 19th century and an anti-imperialist.
Who was Mark Twain?
400
Secretary of Stae between 1861 and 1869, he oversaw the purchase of Alaska.
Who is William Seward?
400
An eclectic cavalry unit in the Spanish American War, made up of cowboys, native Americans, Ivy League athletes and African Americans
Who were the Rough Riders?
500
A Pacific island acquired by the US in 1867
What is Midway?
500
Commodore in the US Navy, he opened Japan to trade in the 1850s.
Who is Matthew Perry?
500
U.S. declaration of war against Spain which proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
500
Trigger event for the Spanish-American War - occurred Feb. 15, 1868.