Vocabulary
This is a formal agreement between two or more nations for a similar goal.
What is an alliance?
The needs of the U.S. Navy to quickly travel from one ocean to another after the Spanish American War motivated the construction of this in Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was President Roosevelt's foreign policy of protecting U.S. economic and security interests in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Big Stick Policy?
According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to pay these to European nations.
What is War Reparations?
The acquisition of these territories led to the growth of U.S. commerce and influence.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
The U.S. returned to this policy at the end of World War I
What is Isolationism?
Enforced by the U.S. from 1899-1900, this was meant primarily to secure equal trade opportunities in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
This location was annexed in 1898 due to its strategic military and business value.
What is Hawaii?
This was President Taft's foreign policy of furthering American interests in Latin America by investing financially with American businesses
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Provide TWO reasons that justified American Imperialism.
Obtain raw materials, become a world power, spread Christianity, obtain colonies, the US was superior to other groups in civilization
The Great White Fleet, the Panama Canal, and US troops in the Caribbean were all examples of this policy.
What is Big Stick Policy?
The Espionage & Sedition Acts limited which Constitutionally protected rights during wartime.
What is 1st Amendment or Freedom of Speech?