Overseas Expansion & Hawaii
What policy describes a developed, industrialized nation extending its power over weaker regions through diplomacy, economic influence, or military force?
What is Imperialism?
Sensationalized news reporting that exaggerated Spanish cruelty in Cuba to sell newspapers was known as this.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Anti-imperialists cited what foundational principle from the Declaration of Independence to argue against foreign expansion?
What is "Consent of the governed"?
Why did President Woodrow Wilson initially keep the U.S. neutral when WWI broke out in 1914?
To preserve peace among a diverse population composed of European immigrants with conflicting loyalties.
What was the name of President Woodrow Wilson’s proposed speech outlining a blueprint for world peace after WWI?
What are the Fourteen Points?
American business owners annexed Hawaii in 1898 primarily to protect investments in what major crop?
What is sugar?
What U.S. battleship explosion in Havana Harbor angered the American public and triggered a declaration of war against Spain?
What is the USS Maine?
In the 1900 political cartoon "Declined with Thanks," how is President McKinley depicted?
What is a tailor fitting Uncle Sam with larger clothes (new territories)?
What German submarine attack on a passenger liner in 1915 killed innocent civilians and shifted American public opinion toward war?
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
Name two specific ideas included in Wilson's Fourteen Points designed to address the root causes of war.
Open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, reduced armaments, lower trade barriers, or the League of Nations.
Besides sugar investments, what strategic military asset did the U.S. acquire by annexing Hawaii?
What is Pearl Harbor
Name two of the three main overseas territories acquired by the U.S. after defeating Spain in 1898.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
How did local populations in places like the Philippines view American advocates who claimed expansion was a "civilizing" duty?
What is hypocritical imperialists who replaced Spanish colonial rule rather than granting real self-determination?
Why did American business owners heavily favor entering WWI on the side of the Allies?
To protect sea trade and large financial loans/investments made to Great Britain.
By 1919, European nations owed the U.S. over $10 billion, shifting the U.S. into what new international economic status?
What is the world's leading creditor nation?
The closing of what domestic boundary in the late 1890s encouraged the U.S. to seek new overseas markets?
What is the Western Frontier?
Which 1898 amendment passed by Congress disclaimed any intent by the U.S. to annex or exercise permanent control over Cuba?
What is the Teller Amendment?
In political cartoons supporting expansion, how were anti-imperialists typically portrayed? "Decline with Thanks"
As bothersome or unnecessary agitators offering unwanted "medicine".
What core belief motivated many African Americans to enlist and fight in WWI despite experiencing systemic racism at home?
Believing that military bravery and patriotism would earn them equal citizenship rights post-war
Identify the 3 primary motivations driving U.S. expansion between 1890 and 1919.
What are Economic, Strategic, and Ideological motivations?
Who was the Hawaiian monarch overthrown by American business leaders with U.S. military support?
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
Which 1901 provision forced Cuba to accept U.S. political and military intervention, contradicting earlier promises of total independence?
What is the Platt Amendment?
What major armed conflict broke out immediately after 1898 due to local resistance against American annexation in Asia?
What is the Philippine-American War?
What violent reality did Black veterans face across many U.S. cities upon returning home in 1919?
What is a dramatic surge in racial violence, urban race riots, massacres, and lynchings (the "Red Summer")?
the Anti-Imperialist League used foundational American principles to oppose overseas expansion?
what is They cited the principle of "consent of the governed" from the Declaration of Independence to claim that ruling foreign peoples against their will violated democratic ideals.