Famous People
The person who bought Alaska from Russia
Who is William Seward?
Lines that go vertical on the world
What are lines of longitude?
The idea that America should spread from one ocean to another
What is Manifest Destiny?
Difficult for steam engines to get
What is coal?
The idea that America should spread from one ocean to another is called Manifest Destiny
What is truth
The President who wanted to add Santo Domingo to the U.S. to put a naval base there
Who Was President Grant?
Lines that go horizontal on the world
What are lines of latitude?
Policy of controlling foreign lands
What is imperialism?
commander in chief of the military
Who is the President?
The U.S. stopped expanding after 1853
was is truth
The President who wanted to help Spain and Cuba make peace
Who was President McKinley?
A line that compares distances on a map to distances in the real world
What is a map scale?
The gathering and presenting of news by newspapers and magazines
What is journalism?
Made traveling around the world by ship easier after the civil war
What is a steam engine?
Some countries wanted to build a blockade as a shortcut through Central America
What is False-canal
Helped to lead the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This ocean is nearest New Jersey
What is the Atlantic Ocean
Blocking an area off from the rest of the world
What is a blockade?
Americans viewed this as something special from the early days
What is American culture?
A line that compares distances on a map to distances in the real world is called a key
What is False-scale
Proved that mosquitoes spread yellow fever
Who was Walter Reed?
The two countries that are directly above and directly below the United States
What is Canada and Mexico?
Goes to another country to represent their own
Who is an ambassador?
The item that Cuba exported to the U.S. but was being destroyed by the war
What is sugar/sugar cane
Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan hill
what is truth