Purple
Lines on the map that run side to side
Latitude
Lines on the map that run up and down
Longitude
Policy for controlling foreign lands
Imperialism
What made traveling round the world by ship easier?
Steam engines
Walter Reed
The gathering and presenting of news by newspapers and magazines
Journalism
The man who bought Alaska from Russia
William Seward
What did the Americans view as special from the earliest days?
Culture
The idea that America should spread from one country to another
Manifest Destiny
The United States stopped expanding in year
1853
Canal
Who goes to another country to represent his own?
Ambassador
The line that compares distances on a map to real-life distances
map scale
What explains the symbols on a map?
Map Key
Who did Theodore Roosevelt help lead in the Battle of San Juan Hill?
Rough Riders
Name a reason that Americans wanted to expand
To make more money and to spread the name of Jesus
Who is the commander in chief of the military?
The president of the US
What is something that was difficult for steamships to get?
Coal
What item did Cuba ship to the US but was destroyed by the war?
Sugarcane (Sugar)