Spanish American War
The U.S. declared war on Spain for these two primary reasons.
What were the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine and Yellow Journalism?
This U.S. company became one of the most powerful forces in Central America, influencing governments in Honduras and Guatemala during the Banana Wars.
What was the United Fruit Company?
She was the last monarch of Hawaii.
Who was Queen Liliʻuokalani?
The Panama Canal would connect these two oceans.
What were the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This was a U.S. trading policy to have equal access to trade in China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
This style of exaggerated news helped spark public support for war.
What was Yellow Journalism?
This foreign-policy idea claimed the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America to maintain order, often used to justify Banana War occupations.
What were the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary?
This group/leader plotted a coup against Liliʻuokalani.
Who was Samuel Dole/the Committee of Safety?
This president initiated U.S. involvement in the construction of the canal and visited the construction of the Panama Canal.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This group of people created a league in Boston to oppose Imperialism that became a national movement.
What was the Anti-Imperialist League?
This U.S. volunteer cavalry group, led by Theodore Roosevelt, became famous during the war.
Who were the Rough Riders?
These 20th-century critics accused the U.S. of using the Banana Wars as imperialism under the disguise of protecting freedom.
Who were the anti-imperialists?
This was the year that the U.S. annexed Hawaii based on the following reason.
When was 1898, rising tensions led to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War and the strategic military base at Pearl Harbor?
This country started the Panama Canal Project.
Who was France?
This 1903 treaty allowed the U.S. to control the Panama Canal permanently and was widely criticized as an imperialist agreement.
What was the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
This treaty ended the Spanish-American War.
What was the Treaty of Paris(1898)?
The U.S. claimed intervention in this country due to European involvement in debt collection(such as France's acquisition of their Navy, and Britain and Germany's threats of war).
Who was Haiti?
This was one way that Liliʻuokalani protested the annexation of Hawaii.
What was writing letters and lobbying against the Committee of Safety, and appealing to President McKinley?
The U.S. supported an independence movement by these revolutionaries against the following government.
Who were the Panamanians, and what was Colombia?
Opponents said imperialism contradicted ideas found in this U.S. founding document.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
The Platt Amendment did this at the end of the Spanish American War.
What was establishing Cuba as a U.S. protectorate, permitting extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs for the enforcement of Cuban independence, and allowing for U.S. bases on Cuba?
The U.S. trained this Nicaraguan military force, which later became the base of the Somoza dictatorship.
What was the Nicaraguan National Guard?
Who was William McKinley?
The Panama Canal was strategic for these two reasons.
What were the U.S. economy and military power?
The U.S. began fighting this war after it acquired the following countries in the Treaty of Paris (1898).
What was the American-Philippine War, and what were the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?