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Ch.12 Vocabulary hKe
ch.12 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through military force |
| Protectorate | A state controlled and protected by another. |
| Anglo Saxonism | a belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.” |
| Josiah Strong | Josiah Strong (1847 – 1916) was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement |
| Mathew C. Perry | (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Queen Lili‘uokalani was the last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She reigned from 1891 to 1893. |
| James G. Blaine | (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, two-time Secretary of State.a dominant Republican leader of th and champion of the "Half-Breed" faction of the GOP. |
| Pan Americanism | the idea of a single state including all of North and South America. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | United States navy flag officer and His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact; |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | considered to be one of the first Senate Majority leaders and was the first Senate Republican Leader, while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy |
| William Randolph Hearst | was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and a leading national figure in the Democratic party. |
| Yellow Journalism | yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | was a Spanish ambassador to the United States. Through the so-called De Lôme Letter, he defamed U.S. President William McKinley, an act which eventually contributed to the Spanish-American War. |
| Jingoism | as extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement |
| George Dewey | was an admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. He was also the only person in the history of the United States to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation |
| Rough Riders | a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War |
| Leonard Wood | was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba |
| Foraker Act | officially the Organic Act of 1900 |
| Platt Amendment | The Platt Amendment of 1901 was a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act presented to the U.S. Senate by Connecticut Republican Senator Orville H. Platt |
| Sphere of Influence | an area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. |
| Open Door Policy | policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country. |
| Boxer Rebellion | was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" |
| Great White Fleet | popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | The Treaty nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across the Central American isthmus to connect the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
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