Overseas Involvement/Causes of U.S Imperialism
Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia. By purchasing Alaska, he expanded the territory of the US.
William Seward
Filipino nationalist leader who led guerrilla fighters in a three-year war against U.S. control of the Philippines.
Emilio Aguinaldo
McKinley's secretary of state that took steps to prevent the U.S. from losing access to the lucrative China trade under an ‘Open Door Policy’.
John Hay
In 1912, President Taft sent military troops here when a civil war broke out to protect American investments.
Intervention in Nicaragua
The 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Democrats known for his leadership during World War I, creating the Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification). He won the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1889, conference was called by Secretary of State James G. Blaine. It created an organization of cooperation between the United States and Latin American countries.
Pan-American Conference
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy
"Big-Stick-Policy"
27th President of the United States, from 1909 to 1913. He adopted a foreign policy that was mildly expansionists and promoted U.S. trade by supporting American business abroad was known as dollar diplomacy.
In 1914, some U.S. sailors were arrested in Mexico where President Wilson used the incident to send U.S. troops into northern Mexico as an excuse to unseat the Huerta government. Huerta later withdrew ending the confrontation
General Huerta
This reverend believed that Protestant American had a religious duty to colonize other lands in order to spread Christianity and the benefits of their superior civilization.
Josiah Strong
Treaty signed between the U.S and Spain on December 10, 1898. It provided for: 1) Cuban independence, 2) Purchase of Puerto Rico and Guam, 3) Purchase of the Philippines.
Treaty of Paris
In 1905, the United States mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt received a Nobel Peace Prize for the mediation.
Treaty of Portsmouth
A Republican senator, he was in favor building U.S. power through global expansion. He introduced the expansion of the Monroe Doctrine
Henry Cabot Lodge
In 1916, this act granted the Philippines full territorial status, guaranteed a bill of rights and universal male suffrage to Filipinos, and promised independence for the Philippines as soon as a stable government was established.
Jones Act (1916)
One of the most important uses of the Monroe Doctrine used to a settle a boundary dispute and marked a turning point in U.S and British relations leading to a cultivation of friendship than continued rivalry.
Venezuela Boundary Dispute
A resolution authorizing war, but it promised the U.S. would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war
Teller Amendment
1903 signed treaty between Panama and the United States granting them all rights to a Canal Zone in exchange for U.S. protection.
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
In 1911, U.S. was excluded from investing in railroads in Northeast Asia because of a joint agreement between Russia and Japan, which was in direct defiance of the Open Door Policy.
Manchurian Problem
In 1913, he was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state. He tried to demonstrate that the U.S. respected other nations' rights and would support the spread of democracy.
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William Jennings Bryan
U.S. Navy captain whose ideas on naval warfare and the importance of seapower changed how America viewed its navy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
A 1901 amendment to a bill that said Cuba would make no treaties that compromised its independence, permit the U.S. to maintain law and order in Cuba, and allow the U.S. to maintain naval bases in Cuba.
Platt Amendment (1901)
1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine allowing the United States to intervene in the Americas, on the behalf of European interests.
Rosevelt Corollary
In 1912, the Senate passed this resolution as an addition to the Monroe Doctrine. It stated that non-European powers (such as Japan) would be excluded from owning territory in Western Hemisphere.
Lodge Corollary
The U.S. general who chased Pancho Villa over 300 miles into Mexico but didn't capture him.
John J. Pershing