Alaska and Hawaii
The United States purchased Alaska from this European country.
What is the Russian Empire?
Commodore Matthew Perry used naval force to open this country up to trade with the United States.
What is Japan?
This island country in the Caribbean suffered greatly under harsh Spanish rule. Multiple independence wars against the Spanish were fought here.
What is Cuba?
This manmade structure allows ships to travel between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It is named after a Latin American country.
What is the Panama Canal?
This word means "to cause something to happen".
What is trigger?
This cash crop was grown in American planters' plantations in Hawaii.
What is sugar cane?
Before America began expansion, George Washington used his Farewell Address to warn the United States to stay away from these.
What are permanent alliances?
This battleship exploded while it was stationed in Cuba, leading to a war between the United States and Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
Panama declared independence from this country in 1903.
What is Colombia?
This word means "to take possession of [a piece of land or territory]".
What is annex?
This woman was the last queen of Hawaii. She also wrote the song Aloha 'Oe, one of Hawaii's most famous folk songs.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
Before Perry arrived, Japan followed this foreign policy idea which claimed that a country should stay out of the affairs/actions of other countries.
What is isolationism?
This future U.S. President led a regiment called the Rough Riders into battle in Cuba.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
President William Howard Taft used this diplomatic strategy. He used economic power rather than military force to protect American interests in Latin America.
What is dollar diplomacy?
This word refers to land that is directly controlled by a country.
What is a territory?
American planters performed this action in Hawaii which led to the United States making Hawaii a territory (and later a state).
What is overthrowing the queen?
This was an American-proposed policy that allowed nations to trade freely in Chinese lands.
What is Open Door policy?
These two locations were where the Spanish-American War was fought. Name both.
What is the Caribbean Sea? / What is the Philippines?
This U.S. President sent troops into Mexico to take Veracruz after American sailors were arrested there. He also sent troops to capture Pancho Villa.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This word refers to an independent country that is protected and guided by another country.
What is a protectorate?
This American Secretary of State arranged for the United States to acquire the Alaska territory and the Midway Islands.
Who is William Seward?
This is a major reason for why China failed to resist Japanese and European demands for Chinese resources and markets.
What is constant war? / What is a lack of industry?
This reason was mainly why the United States decided to keep the Philippines rather than grant the Philippines independence.
What is building a naval base?
This diplomatic strategy allowed the United States to intervene in any Latin American country that seemed unstable or out of control.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This word refers to a narrow piece of land surrounded by two bodies of water on each side.
What is an isthmus?