What two states did America acquire in the late 1800s?
100
Type of journalism that presents no well researched news but rather exaggerates information or headlines
What is yellow journalism?
100
sugar plantations
What buisness did many Americans have in Cuba?
100
Assasination of McKinley
How did TR become president?
100
Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands
What territories did the US gain in this time period?
200
Gold
Timber (wood)
Fish
Coal
copper
Why did America want Alaska?
200
A narrow strip of land
What is isthmus?
200
The Maine
What is the name of the US battleship that explodes in Cuba?
200
The US would be a dominant power in the Pacific as well as the Atlantic
Why did Roosevelt wanted to build a canal that would link the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans?
200
To become more influential
Why does the US add lands and increase its power around the world?
300
Buys from Russia
How does America acquire Alaska?
300
- A group of territories headed by a single power
What is an empire?
300
US gains Spanish territories: Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands.
What was the result of the Spanish-American War?
300
Roosevelt spread the word that the US would help a revolution to overthrow the Colombian government in Panama
He sends the Navy and revolution breaks out
How did we get Panama?
300
used war, the overthrowing of the government, and purchasing in order to gain territories.
What tactics or strategies does the US use to get its territories at this time?
400
Sugar
What resource is wanted in Hawaii?
400
Building an empire
What is imperialism?
400
Accident caused by coal dust
What was the actual cause of the Maine's explotion?
400
He paints a fleet of warships white and sends them around the world to remind people America is powerful
What was the White Fleet?
400
The US would be a dominant power in the Pacific as well as the Atlantic
Why was the Panama Canal important to the US?
500
Americans overthrow Queen Liliuokalani ending Hawaiian rule of Hawaii
How does America aquire Hawaii?
500
the land and waters belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a state, sovereign, etc.
What is a territory?
500
US soldiers lead by Theodore Roosevelt.
Who were the Rough Riders?
500
receive the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace to Japan and Russia in 1906