Foundations
Hawaii
Phillipines and China
Cuba
Puerto Rico
100
This term describes a policy where a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.
What is Imperialism?
100
She was the last reigning monarch of Hawaii who tried to restore political power to native Hawaiians.
Who is Queen Liliʻuokalani?
100
This 1898 agreement officially ended the Spanish-American War and transferred the Philippines to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100
This style of newspaper reporting used exaggerated stories and sensational headlines to grab readers' attention.
What is yellow journalism?
100
The 1900 Act established a civil government in Puerto Rico but denied Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship.
What is the Foraker Act?
200
This 19th-century belief suggested that the U.S. was destined by God to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This is the specific year the United States officially annexed Hawaii during the Spanish-American War.
What is 1898?
200
He was the Filipino rebel leader who fought against both Spanish and American rule.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
200
The mysterious explosion of this battleship in Havana harbor was blamed on Spain and rallied Americans for war.
What is the USS Maine?
200
Puerto Ricans finally gained U.S. citizenship under this 1917 act.
What is the Jones Act?
300
Besides trade and investments, this was a primary economic motive for U.S. imperialism to supply factories.
What is securing raw materials (or resources)?
300
American planters overthrew the monarchy primarily to avoid paying these on sugar imported to the U.S.
: What are tariffs (or taxes)?
300
The U.S. paid this exact amount in millions of dollars to Spain for control of the Philippines
.
What is 20 million dollars?
300
This amendment, forced into the Cuban Constitution, limited Cuban independence and gave the U.S. the right to intervene.
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
Puerto Rico was strategically important because it allowed the U.S. to maintain a military presence in this body of water.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
400
This ideological motive applied the concept of "survival of the fittest" to justify cultural superiority.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Annexation completely destroyed this concept of self-governing rights for the native Hawaiian people.
What is sovereignty?
400
He was the U.S. Secretary of State who created and promoted the Open Door Policy.
Who is
John Hay?
400
This permanent U.S. naval base was established on the island of Cuba as a result of the Platt Amendment.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
400
Today, Puerto Rico's political status is best described as a self-governing territory.
What is a commonwealth?
500
Anti-imperialists argued that ruling other people without their consent violated this core American founding document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
He was the wealthy American lawyer and pineapple plantation relative who led the committee that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and became Hawaii's first territorial governor.
Who is Sanford Dole?
500
This term describes areas in China where European nations and Japan controlled all trade and natural resources.
What are spheres of influence?
500
He was the famous Cuban poet and journalist who launched the 1895 revolution against Spain and became a symbol of Cuban independence, heavily influencing American sympathy.
Who was José Martí?
500
Along with the Philippines and Puerto Rico, this Pacific island was the third territory gained from Spain in 1898.
What is Guam?