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Winning Land
Hawaii
Building & Protecting Foreign Trade
CHINA
TERMS
100
In 1898, the U.S. declared war on
What was Spain?
100
Hawaii became this in 1959
What was America's 50th state?
100
small country that lies on a strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean that the U. S. was very interested in in 1903
What is Panama?
100
China was important to the United States for this reason.
What was foreign trade?
100
a fight against one's own government
What is rebellion or revolt?
200
a small, island country ruled by Spain
What was Cuba?
200
brought Hawaii the American language and culture
What were missionaries?
200
America offered money to be allowed to build this in 1903
What was the Panama Canal?
200
France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and Japan had this inside China, but the U.S. business people did not.
What were special rights?
200
a waterway made for shipping
What is a canal?
300
the ship that blew up that caused the U.S. Congress to declare war in April 1898
What was the U.S.S. Maine?
300
American industry in Hawaii
What was the sugar industry?
300
country that owned Panama
What was Colombia?
300
took place in China in 1900
What was a rebellion?
300
add territory to one's land
What is annex?
400
the first fighting of the 1898 war
What was in the Philippines?
400
after their revolt, what the sugar planters wanted
What was to annex Hawaii?
400
offered Panama's controlling country money
Who was President Theodore Roosevelt?
400
He presented a plan that gave equal trading rights in China to all nations.
Who was John Hay?
400
the plan of a country for getting control of other countries
What is imperialism?
500
won important battles on the ground in Cuba
What was the U. S. cavalry?
500
supported the sugar planters, and helped make Hawaii the 50th state
Who was President McKinley?
500
what the president urged Panama to do
What was to fight for independence?
500
Policy that said the United States would keep the world safe for "trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire"
What was the Open Door Policy?
500
put money into business to make a profit
What was invested?