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This Republican president, elected in 1896, ran on a platform of expansion and exceptionalism, including the idea that the US should have world power status and should use its influence in places like Cuba.
Who was William Mckinley?
This future president became governor of Philippines in 1901 and said that it would take a century to raise the Filipinos out of their current state and into the civilized world.
Who Was William Howard Taft?
This was the name given to the Spanish-American War because it did not cost the US that much, there were few deaths, it encouraged nationalist spirit and expansionist ideas.
What was a "Splendid Little War"?
This stated that the United States did not intend to annex Cuba.
What was the Teller Amendment?
As a result of the Spanish American war, as well as 3 years of the US putting down rebellions, this country became one of many US possessions.
What are the Philippines?
These men, journalists for the New York Journal and the New York World, competed with each other for press and came up with the most scandalous and dramatic accounts they could create of the fighting during the Spanish American War.
Who were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
This former Secretary of State negotiated and issued the Open Door Policy.
Who was John Hay?
This ship was sent to Havana Harbor as a symbol of the US presence there. However, it exploded on Feb 15, 1898, killing 274 Americans.
What was the USS Maine?
The US forced Cubans to include this in their constitution, which authorized to US to intervene militarily in their affairs whenever it saw fit, as well as gave US a naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
What was the Platt Amendment?
This country experienced economic problems as a result of American colonization. becoming a low-wage plantation economy controlled by corporations with their bases in the US.
What is Puerto Rico?
This volunteer cavalry regiment, which included Theodore Roosevelt, was the only to see combat in Cuba at San Juan Hill.
Who were the Rough Riders?
This president is determined to expanding the American Empire and introduces the idea to build a canal through a strip of land in Central America to strengthen the power of the Navy.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This end-of-war document details that Spain would assume Cuba’s debt and would accept $20 million from the US for its claims to Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The inhabitants there would be given religious freedom, but the US would determine civil rights and political status.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
This act declared that Puerto Rico was an “insular territory," meaning people who lived there were citizens of Puerto Rico and not the US. It also meant that these colonies would have no chance at future statehood.
What was the Foraker Act of 1900?
This was the first confrontation and win for the US against the Spanish fleet in the Philippines on May 1, 1898. This battle allowed Filipino insurgents to get rid of the imperial power and to construct their own independent government.
What was Manila Bay?
This man led the US Navy when they confronted and won their first engagement of the war in the Philippines.
Who was John Dewey?
This revolutionary leader helped set up a provisional government in the Philippines, with a constitution modeled after the US.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
These cases ruled that the Constitution did not really apply to these new colonies. Of course, the US must recognize the “fundamental” personal rights of people there, but otherwise it could govern them however they wanted to.
What were the Insular Cases?
This policy, which emerged as a result of the Boxer Rebellion, urged nations to respect China’s territorial and governmental autonomy.
What was the Second Open Door Note?
This US naval base in Cuba was established under the Platt Amendment and is still in use today.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This Hispanic general was sent to Cuba in order to contain the 1896 revolution, establishing a harsh reconcentrado system that killed thousands of people
Who was Veleriano “Butcher” Weyler?
This Spanish foreign minister to DC sent a letter to a friend in Cuba that was intercepted by a Cuban rebel sympathizer. In it were all sorts of unflattering things about McKinley.
Who was Enrique Dupuy de Lome?
This revolution against Columbia was supported by the US in an attempt to gain a favorable canal treaty.
What was the Panamanian Revolution?
This was issued to Germany, Britain, Russia, France, Italy, and Japan and called for equal commercial opportunity within spheres of influence as well as stood up against outside interference with China’s tariff controls.
What was the Open Door Policy?
This was the sight of a US victory over the only difficult battle against the Spanish in Cuba.
What was San Juan Hill?