Vocab
A person who goes to another country to represent their nation
Who is an ambassador?
The year that the US stopped expanding in North America
What is 1853
The structure that was built to create a shortcut through Central America
What is a canal?
A line that compares distances on a map to distances in the real world
What is a map scale?
A leader of the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What America viewed as something special
What is culture
Reasons why the US and Confederate States didn't try to expand during the civil war
What are they were too busy fighting and they were not interested in claiming new lands
The lands that America took over because of the war in Cuba
What are the Philippines, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico?
Three key features on a map
What are a key, compass rose, and scale?
The man who purchased Alaska
Who is William Seward?
What Cubans fought Spain three times for
What is independence?
The idea that America should spread from one ocean to another
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is getting coal
Lines that run side to side
What is latitude?
Man who proved that mosquitoes spread yellow fever
Who is Walter Reed
What Americans hoped that McKinley could talk to the Spanish government and the Cuban rebels to bring about
What is peace
The areas that America spread before 1853
What are the Oregon Country, the Louisiana Territory, the Southwest, and Texas?
Reasons why Americans sided with Cubans against Spain
What are Americans remembered their fight for freedom and did not like seeing other human beings treated without care.
The type of fields that were destroyed in the war between Spain and Cuba
What is sugarcane
Man who wanted to add Santo Domingo to the US and put a naval base there.
The control of foreign lands
What is imperialism?
What helped ships that made traveling around the world easier
What are steam engines
America and Spain met in Paris, France, to sign this
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The commander in chief of the military
Who is the president
The letter that made Americans upset with Spain
What is the de Lome letter