Territorial Expansion
This Pacific island chain was annexed by the U.S. in 1898 despite resistance from its queen.
What is Hawaii?
This U.S. battleship exploded in Havana Harbor, sparking calls for war.
What is the USS Maine?
This term describes sensationalized, exaggerated news stories that fueled support for war.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This phrase captured the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1823 policy declared that European nations should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
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The U.S. purchased this territory from Russia in 1867.
What is Alaska?
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The war began in this year.
What is 1898?
Hearst allegedly told an illustrator, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” during coverage of this conflict.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Monroe Doctrine was originally aimed at preventing European powers from re‑colonizing newly independent nations in this region.
What is Latin America?
This Caribbean island became a U.S. territory after the Spanish-American War.
What is Puerto Rico?
Among many other things, this future president led the “Rough Riders” in Cuba.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Sensationalized papers famously exaggerated events in this Caribbean nation to stir U.S. intervention.
What is Cuba?
This 1846–1848 war resulted in the U.S. gaining vast territories in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This president expanded the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, claiming the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America to maintain stability.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The U.S. gained control of this strategic zone in 1903 after encouraging a certain Latin American country to declare independence from another Latin American country.
What is the Panama Canal Zone?
The Treaty of Paris ended the war and gave the U.S. control of these three territories.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
These two newspaper publishers were rivals in promoting sensational stories.
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
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This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery, leading to violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Roosevelt’s addition to the Monroe Doctrine became known as this, asserting U.S. “international police power.”
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This Pacific island was acquired in 1898 and remains a U.S. territory today.
What is Guam?
This phrase captured the public’s demand for war after the Maine explosion.
What is "Blame the Maine on Spain"?
This 1898 congressional resolution promised that the United States would not annex Cuba after defeating Spain.
What is the Teller Amendment?
This 19th‑century movement of continental expansion is seen as a precursor to American imperialism, because the same belief in destiny, racial superiority, and economic opportunity later justified overseas acquisitions in places like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is Westward Expansion / Manifest Destiny?
Together, the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary justified U.S. involvement in Latin America by promoting this dual rationale: preventing European influence while asserting American dominance.
What are hemispheric security and U.S. interventionism?
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