Vocabulary
To sell off or dispose of assets.
What is divest?
The concept of the 'White Man's Burden' was based on this man's poem
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Foreign powers divided up China land.
What was Spheres of influences?
Built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for US.
What is the Panama Canal?
This made sure the U.S. could trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy
When a powerful nation takes control of the economy and government of a weaker nation.
What is Imperialism?
This ruler tried to limit the influence of foreigners in their country but was overthrown in 1893.
Who was Queen Liliuoklanai?
America's first attempt to buy land to build the Panama Canal.
What is Columbia?
Sensationalized news stories that would appeal to the emotions of people (not too worried about specific facts)
What is Yellow Journalism?
A cartoon picture with an American Eagle expanding its' wings across the globe depicts this.
What is U.S. Imperialism?
A fleet of U.S. Navy Battleships that toured the world from 1907 to 1909.
What is the Great White Fleet.
Sec. of the Navy who resigned his position to fight in the Spanish-American War.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Support of Cuban rebels, Protection of American Businesses, Sinking of the USS Maine.
What are the reasons for the Spanish American War?
Virus/parasite from a mosquito caused either death or sickness for the men in Cuba.
What is yellow fever and malaria?
President Wilson ordered troops to withdraw from Mexico.
What is unable to capture Pancho Villa?
What is the Platt Amendment?
Sent the battleship Maine to Havana to protect the U.S. citizens and and property in Cuba.
Who was President McKinley?
General Weyler moved Cubans to reconcentration camps.
What is to prevent Cubans from aiding the rebels?
The Spanish military's harsh treatment of Cuban rebels, expansionists in the U.S. who wanted territories in the Caribbean, publishers who wanted to sell newspapers, and Americans who wanted revenge for sinking the Maine.
What are the four causes of the U.S.'s involvement in the Spanish American War?
At first, the buying of Alaska was known as this among Americans.
What is "Seward's Folly" ?
A 1854 treaty agreement that opened Japan to American trade and ended its isolation.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
Refuse to recognize Victoriano Huerto's gov't in Mexico because of his killing of the previous president.
Who is President Wilson?
The rally cry for people that wanted a war with Spain in Cuba?
What is "Remember the Maine!"?
The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
What are territories gain by US after Spanish- American War?
Economical, political and cultural influences.
What are three reasons for imperialism.