Post-Spanish-American War
The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and resulted in U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This Filipino revolutionary led the insurrection against American rule in the Philippines.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
The president who promoted the Open Door Policy with China.
Who is William McKinley?
This Roosevelt policy asserted the U.S.'s right to intervene in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
This term coined by President Harding describes the return to a focus on business and laissiez-faire economics after the progressive activism of Roosevelt's administration.
What is "Normalcy"?
This amendment to the Cuban Constitution limited its treaties with other countries and granted the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This term was derogatively used to describe Filipinos under American control.
What are "Little Brown Brothers"?
The Open Door Policy was aimed at preserving this in China.
What is free trade?
This 1904-1914 engineering feat greatly influenced American military and commercial capabilities.
What is the construction of the Panama Canal?
The economic and political philosophy that guided Roosevelt's domestic policies, advocating for moderate political reform.
What is Progressivism?
This future U.S. President became a national hero during the Spanish-American War as a leader of the Rough Riders.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What Native American educational model from the 1870s was used to acculturate and assimilate filipinos following the Filipino American War?
What is the Carlisle Industrial School Model?
The rebellion that led to the intervention of Western powers including the U.S. in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This agreement between the U.S. and Japan acknowledged each other's territories and upheld the Open Door Policy in China.
What is the Root-Takahira Agreement?
This 1906 act aimed at regulating railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
The theory that America should expand due to its superior characteristics was supported by this ideology.
What is Social Darwinism?
This was established in the Philippines to help transition to American rule, led initially by William Howard Taft.
What is the Philippine Commission?
This note, issued by John Hay, announced that the U.S. would safeguard equal trade opportunities in China and respect its sovereignty.
What is the Open Door Note?
This act of showing U.S. naval strength involved a fleet traveling around the world.
What is the voyage of the Great White Fleet?
The scandalous event in 1920 that reflected post-war domestic fears of communism.
What is the Red Scare?
This 1901 agreement replaced the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and gave the U.S. the sole right to build and control any proposed canal through Central America.
What is the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty?
Year in which the Philippine Insurrection was officially declared over by the U.S.
What is 1902?
The year the Open Door Note was issued.
What is 1899?
Roosevelt won this prestigious award in 1906 for his role in mediating an end to a foreign conflict __________. (2 parts)
What is the Nobel Peace Prize and the Russo-Japanese War?
This severe economic downturn began with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?