Reasons For Expansion
This motivation pushed the U.S. to seek new markets, raw materials like sugar and rubber, and overseas trading posts.
What is economic expansion?
This exaggerated style of reporting used shocking images, dramatic headlines, and unproven claims to sell newspapers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
She became queen in 1891 and attempted to restore political power to Native Hawaiians before being overthrown.
Who is Queen Liliʻuokalani?
How long was the Spanish-American War?
What is 4 months?
The Panama Canal connects which two oceans?
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This motivation involved spreading Christianity, Western “civilization,” and American values to “less developed” regions.
What is cultural motivation?
This comic strip character inspired the nickname “Yellow Journalism.”
Who is the Yellow Kid?
This group of American businessmen, supported by U.S. Minister John L. Stevens, staged the 1893 coup.
What is the Committee of Safety?
True or False: More soldiers died from disease than from combat.
What is true?
What type of fighting did the Filipinos use during the war?
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
This reason focused on competing with European powers and protecting U.S. influence in the Caribbean and Pacific.
What is political or strategic motivation?
The explosion of this battleship in Havana Harbor helped push the U.S. into war.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This 1898 resolution officially annexed Hawaii during the Spanish-American War.
What is the Newlands Resolution?
Which major battle was led by Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders?
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
Fill in the blank: The United States chose to use a ____________ rather than trying to build a sea-level canal.
What is a lock system?
Alfred Thayer Mahan inspired this motivation that emphasized naval power and coaling stations.
What is military motivation?
This 1898 letter insulted President McKinley and increased tensions between the U.S. and Spain.
What is the de Lôme Letter?
This act made Hawaii an official U.S. territory in 1900.
What is the Organic Act?
Who was the leader of the Filipino independence movement?
What is Emilio Aguinaldo?
What was one of the major human obstacles to building the Panama Canal?
What are Diseases, specifically Malaria?
This 19th-century belief said American expansion across the continent, and eventually beyond, was justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These two publishers battled each other for newspaper dominance in the 1890s.
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
This strategic harbor made Hawaii an essential refueling and naval base for the U.S.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Which Navy Battle was fought in the Philippines and led by Commodore Dewey?
What is the Battle of Manila?
What three territories did the United States acquire because of the Spanish-American War?
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?