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Ch. Twelve Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Imperialism | Ruling or holding a foreign country |
Protectorate | Protection by a superior country over a dependent country or region |
Anglo Saxonism | a belief in the innate superiority of the Anglo Saxon race |
Josiah Strong | was one of America's leading religious and social voices during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wrote the book Our Country |
Matthew C. Perry | Signed the Treaty of Kanagawa which ended Japanese isolation in the 19th century |
Queen Liliuokalani | Last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. Forced to give up her thrown in 1898 when Hawaii was annexed to the United States. |
James G. Blaine | Representative and Senator in the 1800s |
Pan Americanism | movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America. |
Alfred T. Mahan | Historian and Naval officer during the Civil War |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Representative and Senator from Massachusetts |
Joseph Pulitzer | 19th century journalist and newspaper publisher |
Yellow Journalism | biased opinion masquerading as objective fact |
Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Spanish Minister for the US in 1892 |
Jingoism | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
Theodore Roosevelt | 44th President, elected in 1904, leader of the rough riders |