Vocab
The belief that it was the inevitable mission of the USA to expand beyond its 1840s boundaries and to eventually stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Manifest destiny
The doctrine stated that the United States would view any attempt by European Countries to interfere in the political affairs of Western Hemisphere countries as an act of aggression justifying an US response.
Monroe Doctrine
What was the motivation for the Annexation of Hawaii?
US interest in sugar and military reasons
Who and what thought the USA could achieve its foreign policy goals if it backed its interests with a credible military threat?
Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy
An 1870's monetary policy that required that a country's supply of currency be tied to its supply of gold.
Gold Standard
When the world would resemble the USA in institutions, language, and religion, people would be part of the what
Anglo-Saxon Race
'guaranteed' Cuban independence by forbidding Cuba from entering into foreign treaties that would 'impair' its independence.
Platt Amendment
What country was saved from war by the Monroe Doctrine when disputes over gold came about?
Venezuela
Who and what wished to remove any pretext for European intervention in Latin America by managing the financial affairs of countries whose economies were 'backward.'
William Howard Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
In 1917, Canada relied on this when it no longer had volunteers to fight for them.
Conscription Crisis
Canada was governed according to the British North America Act, which had granted it what in 1867?
Dominion Status
An assurance that if the nations of Central and South America could not keep their financial houses in order and thereby threaten the 'civilized' world, the USA would step in and manage their finances for them.
Roosevelt Corollary
Drastically increased the tariffs on foreign-produced goods.
McKinley Tariff 1893
Who based support on foreign nations through shared values, beliefs, and diplomatic principles rather than economic or imperial interests? And what was this policy called?
Woodrow Wilson, Moral Diplomacy
What year marked the start of the Spanish-American War?
1898
The notion that the USA could achieve its foreign policy goals if it backed its interest with a credible military threat.
Big Stick Policy
Ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the USA.
Treaty of Paris
A main catalyst of the Spanish-American War that pulled the U.S. into the war. (It was a fight for independence)
Cuban Revolution
He was considered a 'realist' who popularized the thesis that it was maritime trade and the tools of this trade - ships, both merchant and military - that brought national greatness.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
In 1901, it resulted in Theodore Roosevelt taking office.
McKinley Assassination
Sought to replace US military might with the power of its strong economy and the financial know-how of the Progressive Era.
Dollar Diplomacy
Mandated that member nations protect the "territorial integrity and existing political independence" of all other members against external aggression.
Article 10
Which ship exploded in Havana Harbour, contributing to the start of the Spanish-American War?
USS Maine
He promoted Canadian autonomy within the British Empire to pursue commercial ties with the US; he focused on railroad expansion and immigration. Who is this?
Wilfred Laurier
In 1903, an example of the Big Stick was used against the Colombian government over land to create what?
Panama Canal