Vocabulary A
Battleships sent around the world on a "good will cruise" by President Roosevelt in 1907
What is the Great White Fleet?
Political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories
What is imperialism?
What is The Maine?
Spanish for "little war"
What is guerilla?
Canal joining the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, completed in 1914
What is the Panama Canal?
Aggressive nationalism; support for warlike foreign policy
What is jingoism?
Newspapers that used exaggerated stories and sensational headlines to promote readership
What is the Yellow Press?
The Battle of San Juan Hill occurred in which modern US territory?
What is Puerto Rico?
Although Roosevelt declared victory in 1902, guerilla warfare continued in the Philippines until this year
What is 1915?
Country in which the Boxer Rebellion occurred
What is China?
Deal whereby segregation for Asian children in San Francisco public schools ended in return for Japan limiting emigration to US
What is the "Gentlemen's Agreement"?
Mexican revolutionary chased across the desert by Gen. Pershing
Who is Poncho Villa?
This island country was blockaded and invaded after the US declared war on Spain, April 19th, 1898
What is Cuba?
Movement that developed in Boston in 1898 to oppose Philippine annexation
What is the anti-imperialist movement?
Roosevelt's foreign policy of creating (and using, when necessary) a strong military to achieve America's goals
What is "big stick" diplomacy?
An American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there
What is the Open Door Policy?
American newspaper publisher who created the largest newspaper chain by featuring investigative reporting & sensational headlines
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
For humanitarian purposes, the United States intervened in the Cuban revolution to help these people
Who were the reconcentrados?
Leader of the Filipino resistance
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
Wilson's statement that the US would not use military force, but instead focus on human rights
What is moral diplomacy?
The US gained this single island in the Pacific after signing the peace treaty with Spain
What is Guam?
First governor of the territory of Hawaii, this planter played an important role in overthrowing its monarchy
Who is Sanford P. Dole?
Beveridge's campaign speech, The March of the Flag promised this to young men after liberating Cuba
What are jobs?
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Beveridge's "illiterate, semi-savage people," and "Anglo-Saxon order and decency" rhetoric most closely aligned with this philosophy
What is Social Darwinism?
Taft's policy of expanding American investments abroad
What is dollar diplomacy?