Vocabulary
Important Dates
Eyes on the Pacific
The Spanish-American War
The United States and Latin America
100
Avoiding involvement in other countries' affaris.
What is isolationism?
100
The date the Maine exploded.
What is February 15, 1898?
100
The amount of time Japan blocked outside trade.
What is 250 years?
100
The place where the Americans invested $50 million in sugar and rice plantations, railroads, and iron mines.
What is Cuba?
100
The main issue the American had while building the Panama canal.
What is disease?
200
Building empires by imposing political and economic control over people around the world.
What is imperialism?
200
The importance of the year 1820 in Hawaii.
What is the year the first American missionaries came hoping to convert Hawaiians to Christianity?
200
The amount of money the United States purchased Alaska.
What is 7.2 million?
200
The place where President McKinley ordered the battleship Maine to protect American lives and properties.
What is Havana harbor?
200
The battleship the Navy sent from San Francisco to Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
What is Oregon?
300
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
What is protectorate?
300
The date McKinley asked Congress for war.
What is April 11, 1898?
300
The person who favored annexation and supported a treaty to achieve it.
Who is William McKinley?
300
The person Dewey enlisted to help him seize Manila from the Spanish.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
A policy based on the idea that economic ties were the best way to expand American influence.
What is dollar diplomacy?
400
A narrow strip of land joining two larger areas of land.
What is isthmus?
400
The year the U.S. government began to build a canal across Panama.
What is 1904?
400
The person who feared the other powers would use the Boxer Rebellion as an excuse to seize more Chinese territory.
Who is Secretary Hay?
400
The treaty that triggered an angry debate in the United States.
What is the peace treaty between Spain and the United States?
400
The man who became President in 1913 and had his own ideas about foreign relations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
What is corollary?
500
The date when Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty.
What is December 1898.
500
The organized society the Chinese created to combat the foreigners.
What is Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
500
The place that the United States replaced as the leading Caribbean power.
What is Spain?
500
A Mexican rebel who crossed into New Mexico raiding and building the town of Columbus, killing 18 Americans.
Who is Francisco Villa?
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