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Ch 12 Vocab 7th
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire 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 | Protestant religious leader; born in Napierville, Ill. A graduate of Western Reserve College. |
| Matthew C. Perry | Earlier, Perry had served as commanding officer (1837–40) of the first U.S. steamship, the “Fulton”; led a naval squadron to Africa to help suppress the slave trade (1843); and successfully commanded naval forces during the Mexican War (1846–48). |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She felt her mission was to preserve the islands for their native residents |
| James G. Blaine | in 1847 and spent several years as a teacher, first in a military academy and later a school for the blind. In 1854, Blaine moved to Maine to become part owner of a local newspaper. |
| Pan Americanism | movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840-1914), a United States naval officer, called “the philosopher of sea power. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), a conservative Republican politician, proved a long-term adversary of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson and, ultimately, his nemesis. |
| William Randolf Hearst | William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863 in San Francisco, California. He was born into a family wealthy from his father's discovery of and involvement in some of the greatest mines in United States history. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Joseph Pulitzer, the son of a grain dealer, was born in Budapest, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in April, 1847. He emigrated to the United States in 1864 and settled in St. Louis. He worked as a mule tender. |
| Yellow Journalism | Yellow journalism, in short, is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Born in Valencia, Spain, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme came from a family of French origin who settled in Spain. After completing his legal studies at the University of Madrid in 1872, Dupuy de Lôme entered diplomatic service |
| Jingoism | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress. |
| George Dewey | George Dewey was born on December 26, 1837 in Montpelier, Vermont. Upon his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1857, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1861. During the Civil War he served with Admiral |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | born March 23, 1869, near Cavite, Luzon, Phil.—died Feb. 6, 1964, Manila), Filipino leader who fought first against Spain and later against the United States for the independence of the Philippines. |
| Rough Riders | An immediate bestseller upon its release in 1899, The Rough Riders is Roosevelt’s personal writings on his adventures in the Spanish-American War. A truly American crew of cowboys, scholars, land speculators, Native Americans and African Americans. |
| Leonard Wood | (October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, |
| Foraker Act | On April 2, 1900, U.S. President McKinley signed a civil law that established a civilian government in Puerto Rico. This law was known as the Foraker Act for its sponsor, Joseph Benson Foraker (an Ohio statesman), and also as the Organic Act of 1900. |
| Platt Amendment | Approved on May 22, 1903, the Platt Amendment was a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention |
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