Westward Expansion
Bison / buffalo
What important native food supply was killed by American settlers?
The Lakota Sioux
Who were the native people on the Great Plains before US expansion?
The ship that gave the U.S. an excuse to go to war when it exploded in Havana Harbor.
What was the USS Maine?
A group of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was annexed by the United States.
What is Hawaii?
Intervention
What is the term for choosing a side in a foreign conflict and getting involved?
Promised 160 acres of land for free to American settlers
What did the Homestead Act do?
Black Hills, North Dakota
What is the site of Mount Rushmore?
A name for news media that is exaggerated and sensationalized to serve an agenda.
What is yellow journalism?
A large, resource-rich northern territory the US purchased from Russia for less than 2 cents per acre.
What is Alaska?
Imperialism
What is the term for getting involved by taking advantage, usually to gain land?
Places where Native children learned to become "American"
Reservations
What are the small areas of land around the United States where native people are forced to live?
The place where the Spanish-American War started, when revolutionaries took up arms against the Spanish empire.
What is Cuba?
A waterway built across Central America that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and cuts thousands of miles off the journey.
What is the Panama Canal?
Isolationism / Neutrality
Accelerated westward expansion by connecting the United States east-west.
What was the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Assimilate
What were native people expected to do as America spread across their lands?
A man who gained fame during the Spanish-American War and later became president.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
A group of islands near China and Japan that the US took from Spain after the war?
What are the Philippines?
The American position that the whole world should have the right to trade with China and Japan... especially the United States.
What was Open Door Policy?
What did the Dawes Act do?
These agreements were repeatedly broken by the US in its quest for land
What are treaties?
What is Guam?
An island near Cuba that the United States took from Spain after the war.
What is Puerto Rico?
The ability to make your own decisions about your political and economic future.
What is sovereignty?