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
Anti Imperialist League felt these actions were "criminal aggressions"
What is declaring war on Spain and the occupation of Philippines?
Which event marked the beginning of the United States' involvement in imperialism
What is the Spanish American War
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
Yellow Journalism made Americans believe that Spain was responsible for the explosion of the USS Maine. Americans experiences these emotions of these reports?
What is anger?
USS Maine
policy that stated the United States' intention to act as an "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere:
What is the Monroe Doctrine
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
Mexican Americans experienced _____ and _____ in the US
What are discrimination and income inequality?
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
Policy Taft put into place as President
What is the Dollar Diplomacy.
Referred to as Seward's Ice Box
What is Alaska?