American Imperialism
The policy by which strong nations extend their political, military, and economic control over weaker territories.
What is Imperialism?
Policy that would open all of trade in China to all nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
His policy in dealing with Latin American countries was to "speak softly and carry a big stick".
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This territory was gained after white planters were kicked out by its leader.
What is Hawaii?
The resource-rich U.S. needed this word for all of their excess production.
What are markets?
He was a Cuban poet who inspired rebellion against the Spanish?
Who is Jose Marti?
Sewards "Icebox" or "Folly"
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This was the feeling or belief that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore were destined to be rule over inferior peoples and cultures.
What is social darwinism?
A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.
What is a protectorate?
Filipino who led the Philippine Revolution against Spain and then again against the United States.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
These Islands were taken by force for a refueling station in the Pacific.
What are the Midway Islands?
China was turned into these regions dominated and controlled by an outside power.
What is spheres of influence?
He was sent to Cuba by Spain to end the rebellion and put 300,00 Cubans in concentration camps.
Who is Valeriano Weyler or "Weyler the Butcher"?
One of the beginnings of american mperialism 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed a fleet of warships to this location, who had closed off its ports to the rest of the world (isolationism).
Where is Japan?
Cuba could not make treaties
U.S. reserved the right to intervene in Cuba
Cuba could not go into debt.
U.S. could put in a naval base.
*Country became a protectorate.
What did the Platt Amendment do?
The main principle of the foreign policy in the United States, established in 1823 says that any foreign (European) intervention in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the U.S.an with the Pacific Ocean, built from 1904 - 1914.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
He traded bullets for dollars by refusing to use force with latin american countries and instead gave them loans.
Who is William Howard Taft?
What were three topics (events) that led to the Spanish American War?
What is...the Delome Letter, Weyler The Butcher, The MAINE, Yellow Journalism