Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Diplomacies
True False
Misc.
100
Taking control of another nation, by direct acquisition, or indirectly via political or economic control.
What is imperialism?
100
The policy created by Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the "Big Stick Policy"?
100
Teddy Roosevelt
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
100
The Monroe Doctrine was the American foreign policy opposing interference and further colonization by Europeans in the Western hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Annexed in 1898
What is Hawaii?
200
over exaggerated journalism: "The Americans were slaughtered by vicious villains."
What is yellow journalism?
200
The acquisition of Alaska is commonly known as this.
What is Seward's Folly?
200
Everyone could trade on an even scale in China.
What is Open Door Policy?
200
Yellow Journalists Hearst and Pulitzer were influential in starting the Spanish American War.
True
200
Seward's Folley
What is Alaska?
300
The task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.
What is White Mans Burdan?
300
50,000 Filipino deaths; 4,300 American deaths
What is the Philippine Insurrection?
300
Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Roosevelt completed this task by completing what major project?
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The Judo Rebellion tried to rid China of foreign influence.
False
Boxer Rebellion
300
Why did Roosevelt want the Panama Canal to be constructed for what reason?
What is
400
Japan's first treaty with a Western nation. Concluded by representatives of the United States
What is Treaty of Kanagawa?
400
Used to display America's military might.
What is the Great White Fleet?
400
William Howard Taft
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
400
The Roosevelt Corollary is aligned with the Monroe Doctrine
True
400
Overthrown by American sugar growers.
What is Queen Liliuokalani?
500
Section of a country where one foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers.
What is a sphere of influence?
500
Strongest countries were destined to take over the weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Stresses the promotion of democracy and constitutional based government.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
500
Hawaii was forced to trade with the United States by Commodore Perry. This sparked modernization.
False
Japan
500
Protectorate for 33 years.
What is Cuba?