CAUSES
This kind of news helped cause the Spanish-American War.
Sanford B. Dole
Who was the U.S. territorial governor of Hawaii?
Emilio Aguinaldo
Who was the leader of the Filipino rebellion against Spain and the United States?
The leader of the Rough Riders.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Panama was a province of this country.
What is Colombia?
This load was on the shoulders of those who wanted to civilize and Christianize foreign people.
What is the White Man's Burden?
This U.S. Navy base was already under construction at the time of Hawaiian annexation.
What is Pearl Harbor
He said that God had told him the right thing to do was to annex the Philippines.
Who was President William McKinley
The ship which exploded in Havana Harbor.
What is the Maine?
This country lost the competition with Panama to have a canal built across it.
What was Nicaragua?
The U.S. feared that this Asian nation might want to take over Hawaii if it did not.
What is Japan?
This event pushed the United States Congress to finally annex Hawaii.
What is the Spanish-American War/
This non-sugar substance grown in the Philippines made the islands attractive to the industrializing USA.
What is rubber?
This Spanish general ordered thousands of Cubans to placed in concentrated areas so they would not help rebels fighting the Spanish army.
Who was Weyler?
Who is Philip Buana-Varilla?
President Roosevelt said that this was the primary reason he wanted the Panama Canal to be built.
What is to give the Navy faster access to the Pacific Ocean?
Grover Cleveland
Who was the U.S. president who stopped the first attempt to annex Hawaii?
The U.S. naval commander who destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila.
Who was George Dewey?
The two U.S. newspaper editors who pushed the U.S. government to declare war on Spain.
Who are Pulitzer and Hearst?
This treaty gave the United States the right to build the Panama Canal and control it.
What is the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty