Occurred when the European powers each had an exclusive trading zone in China.
What is Sphere of Influence?
Roosevelt backed a rebellion by this country against Columbia in order to build a canal.
What is Panama?
In 1893, with the help of the United States Marines, sugar planters removed Queen Lilliuokalani from power and annexed this territory
What is Hawaii?
The belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
His assassination led to Roosevelt's presidency.
Who was William McKinley?
Give one reason why the United States invaded Cuba?
Spain was treating their people horribly by putting their people who were considered rebels into reconcentration camps
Resources sugar and tobacco
the addition of a new territory to an existing country is know as
What is annexation
This amendment stated that the U.S. would not annex Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
The United States bought what territory from Russia (Seward's Folly)?
What is Alaska
This amendment to the Cuban constitution allowed the U.S. the right to the navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
When Theodore Roosevelt bailed out the island of San Domingo this was an example of him using what policy?
Big Stick Diplomacy
Name one of the two newspapermen responsible for the yellow press.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and/or William Randolph Hearst?
Wrote The Influence of Sea Power on History.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
Boxer Rebellion occured because Chinese nationalist wanted to get rid of what?
What is foreign influences?
Theodore Roosevelt created this volunteer militia to fight in the Spanish-American War
What were the Rough Riders?
Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy that supported human rights and national integrity rather than U.S. self-interest.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
U.S. commander whose fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.
Who was George Dewey?
Name one of the prominent anti-imperialism voices.
Who were Mark Twain and/or William Jennings Bryan?
The United States annexed the Philippines after the Spanish-American war, however what other Pacific island did the United States also annex because of the Spanish-American war?
What is Guam
The Supreme Court ruled that Puerto Ricans did not have the same rights or tax status as other Americans in these cases.
What are the Insular Cases?
TR negotiated this in which the San Francisco school board removed the ban on Asian students, and in exchange, Japan limited emigration to the United States.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?