Hawaii
Spanish-American War
Vocabulary
Philippines + Puerto Rico
Misc.
100

The queen of Hawaii

Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
100

The areas that America took control of from Spain.

Where are Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines and Guam?

100

A weaker country controlled by a more powerful country for the stronger country’s benefit

What is a colony?
100

A change the U.S. tried to make in Puerto Rican schools when they took over.

What is making everyone speak English?

100

President after William McKinley.

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

200

The reason American businessmen wanted the U.S. to take over Hawaii.

What is to sell sugar to the US tax-free?

200

The incident in Cuba newspapers used to get the American public upset with Spain.

What is the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine?

200

When powerful countries take over areas and control them for the benefit of themselves, often causing harm or changing culture in the process.

What is Imperialism? 

200

Farmers in Puerto Rico were forced to switch from growing _______ to growing _________.

What is coffee to sugar?
200
Guam is primarily used as this, both today and in the past.

What is a military base?

300

The group that threatened King Kalakaua and forced him to sign the Bayonet Constitution.

Who are the Missionary Party?

300

This place was annexed to be used as a military base in the Spanish-American War.

Where is Hawaii?

300

An agreement or deal between two countries

What is a treaty?

300

American soldiers did this to large groups of Filipino civillians during the Philippine-American War?

What is reconcentration (putting into crowded, unsafe camps)?

300

The year the Spanish-American War began.

When is 1898?

400

The president who annexed Hawaii into the United States

Who is William McKinley?

400

The one place that Spain gave independence to after the Spanish American War, even though America controlled it.

Where is Cuba?

400

A piece of information that supports a conclusion

What is a premise?

400

The president of the Philippines during the Philippine-American War.

Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
400

The main point of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

What was the idea that American character was defined by the frontier?

500

The year Hawaii became a US state.

When is 1950?

500

The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War

What is the Treaty of Paris?

500

helpful or kind to those less powerful than you

What is benevolent?

500

This was done to Puerto Rican women without their consent by American doctors.

What is sterilization?

500

The meaning of the Roosevelt Corrolary.

What is that the U.S. could invade any country in the Americas if they felt they were breaking the law?