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Chapter 9 US2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| military historian who emphasized the need for a strong navy | Alfred T Mahan |
| the policy by which strong nations extend control over weaker territories | Imperialism |
| naval commodore who sailed into Tokyo Bay,Japan, in 1853 | Matthew Perry |
| last monarch of Hawaii | Queen Liliuokalani |
| historian who said the frontier had been an outlet for ambitious Americans | Frederick J. Turner |
| economy in which an imperial country removed raw materials from its colonies | Extractive economy |
| What did Alfred Mahan write and what did it say | "the influence of sea power upon history" build a modern fleet and foreign bases where ships could refuel |
| the belief held by some that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them | Social Darwinism |
| What was the purchase of Alaska from Russia called and who bought it? | Secretary of State- William Seward; Sewards Icebox, Sewards folly |
| Benefits of economic cooperation to Latin American Countries Highway system that linked U.S. to South America | First International Pan American Conference |
| In what year did we McKinley annex Hawaii? | 1898 |
| Where did we put most our money in Cuba? | Sugar Plantations |
| Cuban Patriot who launched a war for independence from Spain | Jose Marti |
| newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership | Yellow Press |
| Jingoism | favored war |
| The _______ letter was leaked by the NY Journal, implying that McKinley was a spineless president only concerned with his own popularity. | DeLome |
| American forces led by ________ destroyed the Spanish Fleet at Manila. | George Dewey |
| stipulated that the U.S. did not want to annex Cuba | Teller Amendment |
| Filipino nationalist- defeated Spain | Emilio Aguinaldo |
| The major battle of the Spanish-American war | San Juan Hill |
| ended the war; Spain gave up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and sold us the Philippines | Treaty of Paris |
| non-traditional warfare in which involved hit and run by small groups of people | Guerilla Warfare |
| governor of the Philippines-censored Press, sent people to jail, extended self-rule, advocated for the construction of schools and roads | Taft |
| Philippines gained independence | Jones Act |
| region dominated/controlled by an outside power | Spheres of Influence |
| violence started by members of a secret society in China, which prompted governments of Europe and America to squash the rebellion-killed missionaries | Boxer Rebellion |
| American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade in China | Open Door Policy |
| a war between Japan and Russia in 1904 over the presence of Russian troops in Manchuria • Roosevelt stepped in to have them sign a peace treaty-Nobel Prize | Russia-Japanese War |
| pact between the US and Japan to end segregation of Asian Children in San Francisco public schools. In return, Japan agreed to limit the immigration of its citizens to the United States | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a good will cruise around the world | Great White Fleet |
| law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico | Foraker Act |
| Supreme Court decided rights of Puerto Ricans | Insular Cases |
| Puerto Rico was given more citizenship and gave islanders greater control over their own legislature | Jones-Shafroth Act |
| set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and granting to the U.S. the right to intervene to preserve order in Cuba | Platt Amendment |
| Roosevelt’s policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve Americas goal | Big Stick |
| human made water way linking the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama | Panama Canal |
| President Theodore Roosevelt’s reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine to keep the Western Hemisphere free from intervention by European Powers | Roosevelt's Corollary |
| Taft’s policy of expanding American investment | Dollar Diplomacy |
| Wilsons statement that the U.S. would not force to assert influence in the world, but would instead work to promote human rights | Moral Diplomacy |
| Presidential candidate that ran on anti-imperialist platform | William Jennings Bryan |
| Mexico's dictator | Carranza |
| Publisher of the New York Journal | William Randolph Hearst |
| New York World-Yellow Kid | Joseph Pulitzer |
| American frontier was a wellspring of its creativity as a civilization and was vital to expand and maintain American spirit | Frederick Jackson Turner "frontier thesis" |
| he called upon Americans to spread religion and values to these backward people | Josiah Strong |
| Claimed that white people were the protector of the world under God and it was their duty to lead others towards the light of democracy | Rudyard Kipling's White Mans Burden |
| this senator called other cultures savages | Senator Albert Beveridge |
| Who wanted the open door policy? | John Hay |
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