American Imperialism
A country that relies on others for its protection and is therefore heavily influenced by the controlling nation.
What is a protectorate?
The second in command of the Rough Riders.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
What are (some of- at least 3) the reasons for Imperialism?
What is
The idea that English character, ideas, and government were superior to that of other nations.
What is Anglo-Saxonism?
American businessman who instigated a rebellion against the Hawaiian Throne to control pineapple production (an possibly politics?) on the island.
Who is Sanford Dole?
The policy to negotiate from strength and making it clear that military action is a possibility. The expression was based off an old African proverb.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Reasons the U.S. was interested in Hawaii.
What is sugar plantations and a naval port?
The Secretary of State in 1899; interfered with Chinese politics and wanted to end spheres of influence in China and open trade in China to all nations.
Who is John Hay?
Name the areas that the US exercised some level of control over after the Spanish American War (at least 3)?
What is Cuba, Guam, the Wake Islands, Puerto Rico & the Philippines?
The policy of maintaining orderly societies abroad through increased American investment in foreign economies.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The uses for the Panama Canal (at least two).
What is trade, military, and speed of travel?
The reason for China attacking foreign embassies and killing over 200 foreigners.
What is, the desire to eliminate western influences on their country
Individual whose policies made him out to be a hypocrite and were heavily criticized.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Issued in 1904, when Germany demanded a port in the Dominican Republic as compensation for an unpaid loan. It stated that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Wilson announced his type of diplomacy that the United States would apply standards based on good intentions and values.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
What was the controversy that surrounded the explosion of the USS Maine at Havana Harbor in Cuba?
What is, the cause of the explosion was unknown.
The naval strategist and the author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world's sea-lanes.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
These provisions were part of what act by Congress: The Cuban government could not enter any foreign agreements/make treaties.
~ The United States is allowed to establish naval bases.
~ Cuba was not allowed to go into debt.
~ The United States has the right to intervene whenever necessary.
What is the Platt Amendment
The Spanish-American war resulted in what change for America?
What is a turn away from isolationism and becoming a world power.