Spanish American War
Bonus Trashketball: What the name of the U.S ship that was blown up in Havana Harbor in 1898?
What is the U.S.S Maine
Roosevelt backed a rebellion by this country against Columbia in order to build a canal.
What is Panama?
In 1893, with the help of the United States Marines, sugar planters removed Queen Lilliuokalani from power and annexed this territory
What is Hawaii?
The belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
His assassination led to Roosevelt's presidency.
Who was William McKinley?
Give one reason why the United States invaded Cuba?
Spain was treating their people horribly by putting their people who were considered rebels into reconcentration camps
Resources sugar and tobacco
Bonus Trashketball: the addition of a new territory to an existing country is know as
What is annexation
Bonus Trashketball: The United States annexed the Philippines after the Spanish-American war, however what other Pacific island did the United States also annex because of the Spanish-American war?
Guam
Bonus Trashketball:This term refers to when people have extreme pride or patriotism in their country.
Nationalism
Bonus Trashketball: The two main goals for U.S expansion (Give One Reason)
What were naval bases and markets for product
The United States bought what territory from Russia (Seward's Folly)?
What is Alaska
This amendment to the Cuban constitution allowed the U.S. the right to the navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Also, it gave the U.S. much oversight and control of Cuba for the next few decades.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Bonus Trashketball: Finish this quote by Teddy Roosevelt "_____________ and carry a big ____________".Which referred to his foreign policy.
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick
Bonus Trashketball: Name one of the two newspapermen responsible for the yellow press.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and/or William Randolph Hearst?
Wrote The Influence of Sea Power on History. He believed the U.S. needed a strong navy to compete with the superpowers of the world.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
Bonus Trashketball: The Boxer Rebellion took place in this country _______, because the local population wanted to get rid of foreign influence in their country.
China
Bonus Trashketball:Theodore Roosevelt created this volunteer militia to fight in the Spanish-American War
What were the Rough Riders?
U.S. commander whose fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. George ____________.
George Dewey
Occurred when the European powers each had an exclusive trading zone in China
Sphere of Influence
Bonus Trashketball:A reason or justification people gave for country's taking over weaker countries.... the idea "the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond."
Manifest Destiny
William Howard Taft gave both Latin American and Asia countries loans to gain a sphere of influence in those regions. Taft thought this was a better plan of gaining influence these countries rather than using bullets he called his plan the "_____________ Diplomacy".
Dollar Diplomacy
Theodore Roosevelt foreign policy add onto the Monroe Doctrine, which emphasized the idea that the United Sates would intervene in conflicts between Latin American countries and European countries. What did TR, call this policy?
Roosevelt Corollary