Imperialism
The US wanted land here for a naval base in the Pacific.
What is Hawaii/Pearl Harbor?
A sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news in order to get more readers.
What is "yellow journalism".
More American lives were lost in the Spanish American War due to what?
What is disease (yellow fever and malaria).
Name the first President to travel outside of the United States?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
Name the battleship that exploded in Havana harbor in 1898?
What is the U.S.S. Maine.
The U.S. purchased this territory from the Russian government in 1867?
What is Alaska.
The Teller Amendment stated that the U.S. sought independence for?
What is Cuba.
Name the Vice Presidential candidate of McKinley in the 1900 campaign?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
Why did most Americans see of value in gaining control over the Hawaiian islands?
What is their sugar trade and/or its location for a naval base.
Name the last American President to have served in the Civil War?
Who is William McKinley.
This nation attempted to achieve independence by going to war against the United States.
What are the Philippines?
Another name for the 1st Volunteer Cavalry unit comprised of Ivy league athletes, upper class New Yorkers and cowboys and Native Americans?
Who are the Rough Riders.
Name the Filipino rebel leader who fought the U.S. control over the Philippine Islands?
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo.
In order to get the rights to the Isthmus of Panama for building a canal, TR did this controversial action?
What is support a Panamanian Rebellion.
Why was the Spanish American War called a "Splendid Little War"?
What is it lasted less than six months and fewer than 300 Americans died in combat.
The "Bloodless Palace Coup" refers to the way in which the U.S. acquired what nation?
What is the Hawaiian Islands.
Of the territories we gained in the Spanish American War, name one that is still under some form of control or protection from the United States.
What is Puerto Rico or Guam.
Name 2 islands/territories we received as a result of the Spanish American war?
What are Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.
Identify one reason why a canal in Central America was important to Roosevelt?
Name the letter that referred to President McKinley as "weak and feeble-minded?
What is the DeLome letter.
Name two reasons the United States decided to adopt a policy of imperialism in the late 19th century.
What is new economic markets, a belief in our cultural superiority, a desire to be seen as a world power, religious conversion and desire to increase the size of our military
Name 2 reasons why the United States was so interested in going to war with Spain.
What was Cuban independence, humanitarianism, Imperialism, desire to have military bases, economic opportunity.
Identify one aspect of the Filipino American War that was different from the Spanish American War?
It lasted for years, there were thousands of more casualties due to combat instead of disease.
Why was McKinley cautious before declaring war against Spain?
What is he sought to investigate to ensure that the Spanish were responsible for the loss of American lives.
Of all the territory we acquired from 1863 until after the Spanish American War, which was NOT an island.
What is Alaska?