Vocabulary
Geography
The Spanish-American War
The Panama Canal
100
Congress made Hawaii a United States ____________.
Hint: Annexed or protectorate?
What is a protectorate?
100
This state was bought by Russia.
What is Alaska?
100
This European country was in a period of decline and by the end of the 1800s, was no longer a world power.
What is Spain?
100
This European country built the Suez canal in Egypt.
What is France?
200
This term describes a person or country that wants to stay out of the political affairs of other countries.
What is an isolationist?
200
This Asian country is one the US wanted to travel with in the Pacific.
What is Japan?
200
Americans supported this Latin American countries battles against Spain.
Hint: Cuba or Puerto Rico?
What is Cuba?
200
The Panama Canal made this country a world military power.
Hint: Panama or the United States?
What is the United States?
300
This type of publishing exaggerated or made-up news stories to attract readers and influence their needs.
What is Yellow journalism?
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300
The country of Panama is an excellent example of this landform.
Hint: an isthmus or a peninsula?
What is an isthmus?
300
The explosion of this battleship in Havana Harbor was the event that sparked the beginning of the war.
Hint: The Maine or the Maryland?
What is the Maine?
300
The Roosevelt Corollary was added to this American document.
Hint: The Monroe Doctrine or the McKinley Doctrine?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
The way a country works with other countries is called its __________ ___________.
What is foreign policy?
400
The United States and Great Britain asked _______ rulers to make an Open Door Policy for trade with this Asian country.
What is China? 🇨🇳
400
The United States set up government in this Asian country.
Hint: Indonesia or the Philippines?
What is the Philippines?
400
The Monroe Doctrine warned ________ not to start new colonies, try to get back old ones, or built any still there.
What are European countries?