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This candidate was in support of the free silver movement.
Who was Williams Jennings Bryan?
What was the "big stick" policy?
This was a famous hill in Cuba where Theodore Roosevelt earned respect as a military leader.
What was San Juan Hill?
To Americans, this was the most deadly part of the Spanish American War.
What was disease? (typhoid, malaria, yellow fever)
This is the term for when a country largely stays out of world politics.
This candidate ran a "front porch" campaign.
Who was William McKinley?
What is the right to act as an international police power?
This type of journalism is used to exaggerate facts and situations to persuade the public to believe lies and propaganda.
What is yellow journalism?
The US took control of, or gained influence over, these lands as a result of the Spanish American War.
What are Cuba (protectorate), Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (paid $20M)?
This territory, bought from Russia, became a state in 1959.
What is Alaska?
This "rough rider" was McKinley's vice president.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This is what the Monroe Doctrine said:
What is, that the US will not get involved in European affairs, and that European countries should not create new colonies in the Western Hemisphere?
These two journalists owned large newspapers and during the Spanish-American War and were responsible for exaggerated reporting.
Who were William Randolph Heart and Joseph Pulitzer?
The US still has a base at this location in Cuba.
What is Guantanamo Bay? ("Gitmo")
These islands, discovered by American sailors in 1859, are about halfway between North America and Asia.
What are the Midway Islands?
This president was represented by the Wizard of Oz.
Who was William McKinley?
What is 1904-1914?
These were the reasons that the US went to war with Spain.
1. Treatment (poverty, cruelty) of Cuban citizens by Spain.
2. The impact of information presented by newspapers.
3. The de Lome letter, and its insult of President McKinley.
4. The sinking of the USS Maine.4.
These was the reasoning of McKinley regarding the decision to acquire the Philippines.
What was: 1. dishonorable to give back to Spain
2. don't give to rivals like France or Germany (bad business)
3. Filipinos were unfit for self-government
4. we should uplift, civilize, and Christianize the Filipinos
In 1893 the US forced this Hawaiian queen from power.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
Leon Czolgosz, the man who assassinated McKinley, held this political view.
What is anarchist?
This country was also considered for the location of the canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Nicaragua?
This was the party responsible for the sinking of the USS Maine.
What is: Trick question! The sinking was unsolved.
In 1976 a study concluded it could have been an accident inside the ship. In 1998 another study stated that it could have been a mine.
From a Christian perspective, this might be a reason that US involvement in the Spanish American War was unjustified.
Answers will vary. Ideas: The US relied on faulty reporting; the explosion on the Maine was not fully investigated or understood, newspapers were dishonest; we should not allow ourselves to be propelled into war for dishonest reasons; we should be diligent in our pursuit of truthful relationships with other countries.
What are: cultural prestige and pride, military power, accumulation of wealth (exploitation?), civilization (humanitarian aid?), spread of Christianity?
This president, pressured by reporters, finally admitted "I took the canal!"
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Between 1859 and 1869, this Frenchman successfully led the construction of the Suez Canal.
Who was Ferdinand de Lesseps?
The US fleet quickly and soundly defeated the Spanish fleet in this battle for the Philippines.
This is the 1898 treaty that resulted from the Spanish American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
According to historian Victor Davis Hanson, this is a reason imperialism might become a problem for a nation.
What is, the nation may focus more on overseas issues than on its own people and land, or its culture may decline due to the influence of power and pride?