People
Group of Chinese revolutionaries martial artists who attempted to rise up and rid China of foreign influence
Boxers (Boxer Rebellion)
Panama Canal
This Cuban poet and journalist led a guerrilla campaign in Cuba that destroyed American owned business interests in Cuba in hopes to provoke US intervention in Cuba
Jose Marti
A cause of the war- sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure readers
yellow journalism
Countries acquiring territories can be defined as
Imperialism
Specific location of a naval base that the US pressured this island nation to allow to be built in 1887
This president practiced a policy of moral diplomacy by denying recognition of governments in Latin America that were viewed as oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to the US interests
Woodrow Wilson
This nation gained its "independence" after the Spainish American War
Cuba
Spanish General that forced 300K Cubans to relocate to concentration/prison camps
General Valeriano Weyler
A cause of the war, message that was intercepted that showed Spainish leader critizing and degrading US President
DeLome Letter
Teddy Roosevelts diplomatic "big stick" strategy included that his negotiations were always backed by the threat of what?
military force
1891, ____________ becomes Hawaii's queen after the death of her brother. Her goal is to restore ___________ to her people.
Liliuokalani; voting rights
Navy Admiral that encourged the US to invest in naval forces by building many new battleships eventually leading us to become the 3rd largest navy in the world
Alfred T. Mahan
The Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary and Taft's Dollar Diplomacy show the US had interest in ensuring European imperial powers stay out of where?
Latin America (Central/South America)
Western Hemisphere
_______________ was a group of volunteer army Calvary that pushed the Spanish out of Cuba and had an outstanding victory at San Juan Hill, led by ____________________
Rough Riders, Teddy Roosevelt
USS Maine
The US were producing more goods than they could consume; this led to this motive of imperialism
Thirst for New Markets
What policy took affect that led to American businesses in Hawaii to start putting pressure on the President to take the islands as territory to make importation of their crops less expensive
McKinley Tarriffs
Wilson sent this General into Mexico to chase after Mexican revolutionary leader
General John Pershing
The US paid Spain $20 Million for this land after the Spainish American War
The Philippines
Protectorate
Naval commander that led US forces into Manila Bay in the Philippinesn and destroyed the Spanish fleet
George Dewey
Open Door Policy
Territory purchased from Russia in 1867; originally thought of as a mistake until massive Gold rush and Oil reserves are found on the land decades later.
Alaska
American troops were sent into Mexico to try to capture this Mexican revolutionary leader after his men killed 17 American engineers working on mines in Northern Mexico.
Francisco "Pancho" Villa
Most populated country in the world, cut off geographically by global trade, infiltrated by imperialist nations looking to expand their markets and spheres of influence in untapped territories
China
The US threatened not to pull military powers out of Cuba without the inclusion of this in the Cuban Constitution that would give authority and power to the US to intervene in Cuba
Platt Amendment
This document marked the official ending of the Spanish American War
Treaty of Paris
This ended military rule in Puerto Rico and set up a new civil government (Pres appoints governor and upper house, citizens elected lower house)
Foraker Act
Head of major fruit plantations and businesses in Hawaii, becomes the President of the new Republic of Hawaii after the US overthrows the Hawaiian government
Sanford Dole