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Madison Burkhard
Chapter 10 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Queen Liliuokalani | queen of Hawaii |
Imperiallism | policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories |
Alfred T. Mahan | urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other powerful nations |
William Seward | secretary of state under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson |
Pearl Harbor | naval base in Hawaii |
Sanford B. Dole | head of government that overthrew the queen |
Jose Marti | a Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York |
Valeriano Weyler | general sent to Cuba to restore order |
Yellow Journalism | style of writing, which exaggerated the news to lure and enrage readers |
U.S.S. Maine | ship sent to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect American property |
George Dewey | commodore, gave command to open fire on the Spanish fleet on Manila, Philippine capital |
Rough Riders | volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt |
San Juan Hill | victory place |
Treaty of Paris | touched off a great debate in the United States |
Foraker Act | ended military rule and set up a civil goevernment |
Platt Amendment | things added to the Cuban constitution |
Protectorate | a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power |
Emilio Aguinaldo | rebel leader, believed that the United States had promised independence |
John Hay | U.S. secretary of state, protected American interests |
Open Door notes | series of a policy statements |
Boxer Rebellion | a fight where thousands of Chinese people died during the fighting |
Panama Canal | a canal U.S needed French land for |
Roosevelt Corollary | A corollary added to the Monroe Doctrine by Roosevelt |
Dollar diplomacy | a policy where using the U.S. government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people |
Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Rebel leader |
Emiliano Zapata | Rebel leader |
John J. Pershing | a Brigadier general |