Carrying a Big Stick
Teddy Roosevelt and the US Navy sent these new ships on a world tour to show off new military technology and to show the US was a major world power is called the what?
Great White Fleet
The US promised to support Panama in a revolution if Colombia refused to grant them independence. What did the US desire from Panama in return?
The ability to build the Panama Canal
Sugar is addictive and big business. The Standard Fruit Company (now known as Dole) sponsored a coup to overthrow the monarchy of this island chain in order to increase its profits once they realized it would be cheaper if these islands were a part of the US.
The US got the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. This allowed the US to grow a greater military and economic presence in the Pacific and this area of the world
Latin America (Caribbean)
Taft used this type of Diplomacy, which meant paying Banana Republics to continue beneficial business practices with the US
Dollar Diplomacy
Teddy Roosevelt led this volunteer cavalry unit into Spanish controlled Cuba in the Spanish-American War
Rough Riders
The policy of being allowed (or allowing ourselves) to trade in and with China is called the....
Open Door Policy
Many Americans supported the independence of this Caribbean nation after leaders like Jose Marti gave speeches to gain American support against Spain. They also just so happened to have plantations available for American sugar farming
Cuba
Emilio Aguinaldo was a Filipino leader during the Spanish-American War. After the US's victory in the Spanish-American War, it became apparent that the Philippines would not be able to have self-determination/government. This led to the beginning of this war.
Philippine-American War
Wilson used this type of diplomacy which used the withholding of money and military aid from nations that were unfriendly with the US or didn't share our moral values.
Moral Diplomacy
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and this naval base in Hawaii were some of the US's prized overseas military bases in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Pearl Harbor
The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (aka the Boxers) led a rebellion to try to keep foreign businesses and colonizers out of China. What is the name of this rebellion that ultimately failed?
Boxer Rebellion
They could have grown sugar, but most Central American nations grew this sweet tasting fruit which encouraged investment from American fruit companies that led to the rise of dictatorships with the threat of American military intervention. What were these nations nicknamed?
Banana Republics
To cut travel times and control world trade trade, construction began in 1903 and was built across a small Central American country
Panama Canal
Pershing was sent to Mexico to find this Mexican Revolutionary outlaw who led a raid into New Mexico in which American civilians were killed. He was never found by the Americans
Pancho Villa
Gunboat Diplomacy is associated with this President
Teddy Roosevelt
The sinking of the USS Maine off the coast of Cuba and this type of exaggerated journalism led to the US declaring war on Spain in 1898.
Yellow Journalism
If there was a revolt in Cuba in which American sugar farms were threatened, the US would have given itself the authority to do so under the Corollary named after this President.
Roosevelt Corollary
The Spanish-American War, annexing of Hawaii, building of the Panama Canal, and the Boxer Rebellion all had this effect on foreign trade
Increased US access to foreign markets
Nationalism (extreme pride in one's country), military build up, and desire for foreign trade all led to the growth or shrinking of the American Empire in the early 1900s?
Growing
Roosevelt once said "Speak softly and carry a big stick." What is the big stick a metaphor for?
Big military ready to fight if needed
After the Spanish-American War, Cuba was technically "free" but the US also got Guantanamo Bay, Puerto Rico, Guam, and this other Pacific Island chain that used to belong to Spain
The Philippines
DAILY DOUBLE:
What are the names of the two Yellow Journalists whose actions led to a war with Spain and the annexing of the Philippines, all in the attempt of getting more people to buy their newspapers.
Hearst and Pulitzer
Like when Jane tries to civilize Tarzan, some benevolent Americans wanted to "Civilize" new territories. This idea of believing that one's way of life or culture is superior is closely related to what other concept when discussing why some countries/cultures dominate others?
Social Darwinism
DAILY DOUBLE:
What does one call themself if they did not support American Expansion and Imperialism
Anti-Imperialist