Becoming World Power
Building this allowed the United States to protect their over seas interests.
What is building a modern navy?
A type of fighting that has no organization and can be ambushes or hit and runs.
Who said, "speak softly and carry a big stick?"
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
A group of flamboyant mix of cowboys, miners and law officers who volunteered to help fight in the Spanish American War.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This man was part of fight to take over Hawaii and now a fruit packaging company is named after him.
Who is Sanford Dole?
The Hawaiian royal that fought American settlers to retake the thrown.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
The idea that all countries should be allowed to trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
The president of the US that dealt with all the presidents Mexico had during the Mexican Revolution.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
The two countries that the Spanish American War was fought.
Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Venustiano Carrana were leaders during this time.
What was the Mexican Revolution?
The man who brought a warship to display to the Japanese, asking them to trade.
The idea of aggressive nationalism-shown especially by the Republican Party at this time.
What is jingoism?
Panama was part of this country before the US was able to start building the Panama Canal.
What is Columbia?
The battleship that Pres. McKinley sent to Cuba to help Americans evacuate if needed, but ended up exploding.
What was the U.S.S. Maine
The man who used surprise attacks and sabotage in Columbus, New Mexico.
Who is Pancho Villa?
The phrase that explains Social Darwinism, but also evolution. Meaning the strongest will survive.
What is "survival of the fittest?"
Type of sensational, biased, and often exaggerated or false reporting for the sake of attracting readers.
What is yellow journalism?
The event where the "Society of Harmonious Fists" decided to destroy the "foreign devils," and Chinese Christian converts because they felt they were corrupting Chinese society.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The Filipino revolutionary leader who helped Americans fight Spain in the war, and then fought the Americans after the war.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
This man wrote the book called "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," that helped influence people the need for the US to grow a modern navy.
Who is Captain Alfred T. Mahan?
John Fiske's idea that English-speaking nations were superior.
The economic and political domination of a strong nation over a weaker one.
What is imperialism?
States that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic & political stability in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The reason for the U.S. annexing this country, was to "uplift, civilize and Christianize them."
What is the Philippines?
"What is "El Canicero" or "The Butcher?"