Ch. 12 Vocabularyy
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| 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.
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| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
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| Anglo Saxonism | A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue
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| Josiah Strong | He was a Protestant clergyman and author. He was a founder of the Social Gospel movement.
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| 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
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| Queen Liliuokalani | She was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She felt her mission was to preserve the islands for their native residents. In 1898, Hawaii was annexed to the United States and Queen Liliuokalani was forced to give up her throne.
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| James G. Blaine | Politician and Diplomat. Served in the U.S. House of representatives. Was later a speaker. Secretary of State.
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| Pan Americanism | the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
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| Alfred T. Mahan | U.S. naval officer and historian. Wrote Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire. both books greatly influenced the buildup of naval forces before World War I.
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| Henry Cabot Lodge | In 1880 Lodge was elected to the state legislature (until 1881), and to the House of Representatives in 1887 (until 1893). He subsequently served in the Senate from 1893 until his death in 1924.
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| William Randolph Hearst | Hearst turned the newspaper into a combination of reformist investigative reporting and lurid sensationalism.
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| Joseph Pultizer | Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading national figure in the Democratic party.
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| Yellow Journalism | type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
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| 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.
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| Jingoism | Extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy.
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| Theodore roosevelt | 26th president of the united states. Know for leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Rough Riders | 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action.
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| Leonard Wood | was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines
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| Foraker Act | officially the Organic Act of 1900, is a United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico, which had been newly acquired by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War.
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| Platt Amendment | withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations until the 1934 Treaty of Relations.
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| Sphere of Influence | is an area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence.
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| open Door Policy | Makes sure china doesn't shutout their foreign trading
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| Boxer Rebellion | "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" (known as "Boxers" in English), in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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