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Kent Chapter 12 Hist
Kent Chapter 12 History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | The policy of extending the rule or authority of an impire or nation over foreign countries or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
| 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. |
| Matthew C. Perry | U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaiian queen, the last Hawaiian monarch to govern the islands (1891 - 93) |
| James G. Blaine | U.S. politician and diplomat |
| Pan Americanism | a movement for or the idea or advocacy of close economic, cultural, and military cooperation among the Pan-American countries. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | U.S. naval officer and historian. He studied at the U.S. Naval Academy, and his nearly 40 years of active naval duty included fighting in the American Civil War. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | U.S. politician. He was the recipient of the first Ph.D. in political science awarded by Harvard University. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1887 to 1893 and in the Senate from 1893 to 1924. |
| William Randolph Hearst | The son of a U.S. senator, William Randolph Hearst was a rich kid in his early 20s when he inherited control of the San Francisco Examiner newspaper from his father, mining tycoon George Hearst, in 1887. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | American newspaper editor and publisher who helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time he was one of the most powerful journalists in the United States. |
| Yellow Journalism | the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | |
| jingoism | an attitude of belligerent nationalism, the English equivalent of the term chauvinism |
| theodore roosevelt | the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest in conflicts between big business and labour. |
| George Dewey | U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | Filipino leader who fought first against Spain and later against the United States for the independence of the Philippines. |
| Rough Riders | member of 1st Volunteer Cavalry, in the Spanish–American War, one of a regiment of U.S. cavalry volunteers recruited by Theodore Roosevelt |
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