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Vocabulary
Places All Over the Place
Presidential Potpourri
America at War
Forty Eight Miles on the Panama Canal
100
Policy of avoiding involvement in other countries affairs, the chief U.S. foreign policy until the early 1900s.
What is isolationism
100
"Seward's Folly"
What is Alaska
100
He utilized a policy of "watchful waiting".
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100
This style of Journalism, made famous in the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, emphasized sensational headlines about Spanish atrocities in Cuba.
What is yellow journalism.
100
This was the first obstacle that interfered with building the Panama Canal
What is diseases (Malaria/Yellow Fever)
200
Building empires by imposing political and economic control over peoples around the world.
What is imperialism
200
One way the United States protected its trading rights in China was by issuing a first and second one of these.
What is the Open Door Policy or Open Door Note.
200
As President he stated that the U.S. foreign policy should be to support democracy through the world.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
200
Two of the territories the U.S. acquired as a result of the Spanish American War.
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Wake
200
The Panama Canal links these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific.
300
DAILY DOUBLE
What is reconcentration
300
The U.S. sent Commodore Matthew Perry to open trade with this foreign nation.
What is Japan
300
The nickname for Roosevelt's foreign policy
What is Big Stick Diplomacy
300
A desire to protect American investments in this country led the U.S. to enter the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba
300
What war helped influence the United States desire to build the Panama Canal as they saw a need to be able to move naval vessels quickly from one ocean to another.
What is the Spanish American War
400
Areas where another nation has economic and political control.
What is a sphere of influence
400
After a typhoon prevented all out war, the U.S. and Germany divided up this territory.
What is Samoa
400
Daily Double
What is the Monroe Doctrine
400
Do you "remember" the name of this U.S. battleship. It's sinking was one of the causes for U.S. entry into the Spanish American War.
What is the Maine
400
The U.S. paid panama this lump sum as well as $250,000 a year in rent for use of the canal region.
What is $10 million
500
A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
What is a corollary
500
On July 7, 1898 the U.S. congress voted to annex this territory that the U.S. acquired after it's Queen surrendered control of the country to save her people from bloodshed.
What is Hawaii
500
President Taft's chief foreign policy that was based on the idea of creating economic ties with foreign nations as a way to expand american influence.
What is dollar diplomacy
500
Before becoming President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to organize and lead this diverse group of cowboys, miners, law enforcement officials, and Native Americans known by this tough sounding nickname.
Who are the rough riders
500
The U.S. helped Panamanian rebels to overthrow this country's rule so that they could build the Panama Canal
What is Columbia