Last Hawaiian monarch overthrown in a coup instigated by American planters.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
100
Area of land purchased from Russia in 1867; known as "Seward's Folly".
What is Alaska?
100
Ship whose destruction caused the United States to declare war on Spain.
What is the Maine?
100
Policy of extending the rule of an empire or a nation over foreign countries.
What is imperialism?
100
"Speak softly and carry and big stick and you shall go far."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
The president of the U.S. during the Spanish-American War who decided to keep the Philippines.
Who is William McKinely?
200
Country that controlled Panama before the U.S. helped the area rebel.
What is Columbia?
200
The Panama Canal links these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific?
200
Practice of featuring sensational news with large headlines to sell papers.
What is yellow journalism?
200
"Take up the white man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your son's in exile
To serve your captives need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered fold and wild--
Your new caught sullen peoples--
Half devil and half child."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
300
Focusing on Dollar Diplomacy, this president encouraged and protected American trade and investment in Latin America and Asia.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
Country in which President Wilson's policies and interferences created instability south of our border.
What is Mexico?
300
Fleet of warships that sailed around the world as a show of American naval power.
What is the Great White Fleet?
300
This U.S. amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba after the Spanish-American War in order to "life, property, and individual liberties."
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
"I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men."
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Believing that the U.S. should use its power to aid "the development of constitutional liberty in the world," this president pursued a foreign policy he called moral diplomacy.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Country whose natural harbor and agricultural products led Americans to gradually take it over in the 19th century.
What is Hawaii?
400
Hundred day war that gave the U.S. land claims in the Atlantic and Pacific and increased its status as a world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
Created by Roosevelt to give U.S. the right to intervene in Latin American nations affairs; led to resentment from those nations.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we needed California. It is Manifest Destiny."
Who is William McKinley?
500
Men whose newspapers helped get the U.S. into the Spanish-American War.
Who are Hearst and Pulitzer?
500
Three territories gained by the U.S. from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
500
America's foreign policy in China, which called for allowing free trade in China and an end to European colonization, is called this.
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
Believing that the people, customs, and traditions of your own race or nationality are better than those of other races.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
In regards to Cuba, he famously stated, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."