Level 1
Economic, Nationalistic, Military and Humanitarian.
WHAT WERE THE FOUR FACTORS THAT LED TO THE GROWTH OF IMPERIALISM?
This class of professionals was created by the Industrial Revolution.
What is the middle class?
America, Spain, and Cuba.
Who were the major players in the Spanish-American War?
When this ship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor American's knew Spain was behind it.
What is the USS Maine?
We bought this territory for $7.2 million because we wanted more land.
What is Alaska?
We took this country from its Monarchy because American planters did not want to pay tariffs.
What is Hawaii?
What is Puerto Rico, Philippines, and
Guam
These forward thinking people wanted to reform social issues liked education and the government.
What are Progressives?
William Howard Taft used investments in foreign companies to tie countries together.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
After building this we shortened the route between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
The US wanted to demonstrate their navel power to another nations.
What is the Great White Fleet?
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Access to foreign markets, a new frontier, stronger US Navy, and keep a competitive edge.
What are arguments for Imperialism?
Foreign workers would compete for jobs against U.S. laborers, another form of racism, goes against the founding principles of our nation, and costs too much money.
What are arguments against Imperialism?
A series of steps that made a canal through mountainous terrain possible.
What is a lock canal?
Giving support to a nation that has similar ethics.
What is Moral Diplomacy?
To join a new territory to an existing country.
What is Annex?
Aggressive foreign policy.
What is Jingoism?
All countries to be able to freely trade.
What is an Open Door Policy?
The mountains and the river.
What were the two biggest problems with building the canal?
US declared itself neutral in European wars and warned other nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Movement of rural to urban, Growth of cities, More pollution and health hazards, Women and children start to work; Child labor, Poor Working conditions
What were some of the Effects of Industrialization?
Little or no legitimate well-researched news.
What is Yellow Press?
Stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations.
What is Imperialism?
The West Indies and America.
Where did most of the workers come from to build the Panama Canal?