The practice of extending a nation's power by gaining territories for a colonial empire.
What is imperialism?
100
Spanish letter that insulted President McKinley and angered American citizens.
What is the De Lome Letter?
100
FFA
What is Future Farmers of America?
100
The exaggeration of news in an attempt to sell more newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
100
Artifical waterway built by the US that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
Called Seward's Folly or Seward's Icebox.
What is the purchase of Alaska from Russia?
200
The name of President Roosevelt's foreign policy that used the threat of military force to deter foreign nations.
What is the Big Stick Diplomacy?
200
AWOL
What is Absent Without Leave?
200
US battleship that exploded while anchored in Havana Harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
200
Teddy Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US would use its military to prevent European nations from interfering in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
American sugar planter in Hawaii who led to the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. Was named as the President of the Republic of Hawaii.
Who is Stanford B. Dole?
300
Name of the new modern US navy that featured battleships.
What is the Great White Fleet?
300
FBI
What is Federal Bureau of Investigation?
300
The all volunteer calvalry group that was led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War.
What is the Rough Riders?
300
President's Tafts policy of using the United States economy to control the affairs of Latin American nations.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
400
The policy established by the United States to attempt to keep any one country from colonizing China and to keep it open to trade with all countries.
What is the Open Door Notes?
400
Most Famous battle in the Spanish American War, made Teddy Roosevelt a household name.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
400
NSA
What is National Security Agency?
400
Name of the Cuban revolutionary that attempted to get US aid for the independence of Cuba from Spain.
Who is Jose Marti?
400
The Mexican revolutionary leader that invaded the US and killed American citizens on American soil in 1916.
Who is Pancho Villa?
500
The American Admiral sent to Japan to intemidate them into open trade relations with the US.
Who is Matthew Perry?
500
The names of the 2 newspaper owners who used yellow journalism in an attempt to out sell the other.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
500
NAACP
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
500
The American delcaration to the World that they would make Cuba a free nation following the Spanish American War.
What is the Teller Amendment?
500
The amendment added to the new Cuban Constitution that said the US had the right to intervene in the country any time it saw fit.