Key Terms
When a stronger country controls another nation’s political, economic, or cultural life without necessarily making it a formal colony, it is practicing this.
Imperialism
In the late 1800s, the U.S. generally avoided political and military entanglements abroad while focusing on internal growth.
isolationism
Mahan would most likely support expansion into the Pacific because overseas territory could provide these two things for a growing navy.
naval bases and protected shipping routes?
The Cuban rebellion gave the U.S. a humanitarian argument for intervention, but American involvement was also shaped by this economic interest.
sugar investments
This policy demanded equal access to trade in China rather than direct U.S. colonization of China.
Open Door Policy
This type of media used exaggerated, emotional stories to build public support for war.
Yellow Journalism
Describe is overproduction is and what it lead to.
American factories produced more goods than many domestic consumers could buy, pushing businesses to look abroad.
The U.S. forced this country to open trade relations in 1853, demonstrating that naval power could be used to expand American influence without formal annexation.
Japan
Name the three territories the United States gained from Spain after the war.
Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
This Roosevelt policy relied on the threat or use of U.S. military power to influence events abroad, especially in Latin America.
Big Stick Diplomacy
A U.S. leader wants to acquire an island mainly because a rival European power may take it first. This is an example of this kind of imperialism.
preclusive imperialism
This belief connected nineteenth-century westward expansion to later overseas imperialism by arguing that the United States had a mission to spread its civilization.
Manifest Destiny
Hawaii was valuable to the U.S. not simply because of sugar. Explain its second major importance.
strategic location in the Pacific / usefulness as a naval base
The explosion of the USS Maine was important less because the cause was proven and more because it did this politically.
intensified public calls for war / became a rallying point against Spain
Describe why the U.S. supported Panama’s independence
Columbia would not give the US the rights to the canal, so the US supported Panama's revolution in return for their new gov't would give them the rights.
This policy used American loans, investments, and financial influence to increase U.S. power in Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
This naval strategist argued that a powerful navy was essential to national greatness.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
This act placed Puerto Rico under U.S. authority without making it a state or granting full constitutional incorporation.
Foraker Act
policy claiming that the U.S. could intervene in Latin America to preserve stability was called this.
Roosevelt Corollary
This movement promoted cooperation among Western Hemisphere nations, though often under U.S. leadership.
Pan-American movement
Identify two motives for U.S. imperialism in the late nineteenth century and explain how each could support acquiring overseas territory.
new markets, naval bases, strategic security, missionary influence, Social Darwinism, Manifest Destiny, or blocking European rivals?
Cuba was not annexed by the United States, but this amendment ensured that Cuban independence would be limited by U.S. power.
Platt Amendment
What is Moral Diplomacy
This Wilson policy claimed that the United States should support governments that were democratic and legitimate, rather than simply those that protected U.S. business interests.