Foreign Policies
This was done to shorten the travel distance for ships between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Why was the Panama Canal built?
Before the Spanish-American War, this country offered to stop fighting.
What is Spain?
This is what the 16th Amendment allows the government to collect.
What is income tax?
They wanted new laws to correct American problems.
Who were Progressives?
Some changes in Cuba that occurred after this war include: Spain government left Cuba, Yellow Fever was eradicated from Cuba, the U.S. helped establish new government, education, highways and sanitation.
What was the Spanish-American War?
This foreign policy allowed for free and open trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This is the country that gained independence after the Spanish-American War and where most of the land battles of the war were fought.
What is Cuba?
These were writers who exposed corruption and social problems.
Who were muckrakers?
This President continued Roosevelt's actions against big business.
Who is President Taft?
This is who took power from China by taking control of several Chinese cities, using them as trade centers and establishing their own governments and courts.
Who were European countries?
This was President Roosevelt's policy toward Latin America.
What was "Big Stick"?
This was one cause of the Spanish-American War.
What was Spain's poor treatment of Cubans?
This is what you call a government's plan to deal with other nations.
What is foreign policy?
In the election of 1912 this person ran as a third party, splitting the Republican vote between himself and President Taft.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
In the election of 1908 this person easily won the election against democratic candidate because he was supported by Roosevelt and the Progressives.
Who was President Taft.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was about foreign policy with this part of the world.
What is Latin America?
After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico became this.
What is an American Territory?
President Roosevelt was called this because of his stand against big business.
What is a trustbuster?
Some examples of reforms wanted by the progressives
What are primary election, referendum, recall, and initiative?
American troops defeated this independence movement.
What was the Filipino independence movement.
This was an American battleship that exploded in Cuba.
What was USS Maine?
President Roosevelt protected America's natural resources through this.
What is conservation?
Some ways President Roosevelt helped this cause were: by helping miner's settle a strike, supporting better working conditions, and trying to control big business. He also helped create the Department of Commerce and Labor.
What are worker's rights.