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U.S. Imperialism Study Guide - The U.S. Becomes a World Power (1877-1917)

Chapter 17

  1. The concept where one nation extends its power and influence over other lands for economic, political, and military purposes.

  1. What industrialized nations hoped to access in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

  1. Places overseas that many countries hoped to establish for military purposes.

  1. A term that means a strong sense of pride or love for one’s country with a support for aggressive foreign policy.

  1. A notion that one group of people feels that they are more advanced and should help out other “backward” people.

  1. Idea that when nations compete, only the strongest survive.  A word that we have used in another unit to defend actions of the strong over the weak.

  1. Protestant minister who believed it was the responsibility of the Anglo-Saxon races to spread Christian values and democracy.

  1. Island nation in the Pacific where many Americans became very influential when they took over the sugar industry there.

  1. New plan of government that the Hawaiian King was forced into signing where they had to turn over control to people influenced by overseas powers.

  1. Hawaiian Queen who was overthrown by American Sugar Planters.

  1. American Sugar Tycoon who became President of Hawaii in 1893.

  1. American President who supported the annexation of Hawaii.

  1. A geographic area where an outside nation exerts special economic or political control.

  1. Secretary of State John Hay’s goal that would allow all nations to have equal trading rights in China.

  1. Incident where a Chinese group known as the Secret Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists tried to expel all foreigners.

  1. American commander who first gained access to Japan in 1853 after many years of being closed off to the outside world.

  1. War that Japan fought in 1904 over access to raw materials in Korea and Manchuria.

  1. Name given to the group of battleships that President T. Roosevelt sent on an around the world cruise as a show of US strength.

  1. Leader of the Independence movement in Cuba; was exiled but came back to give his life for Cuban Independence.

  1. Spanish military leader sent to Cuba to put down the Cuba Libre’ revolt.

  1. American publisher of the New York Journal; was very instrumental

        in getting Americans to support going to war.

  1. A new style of newspaper reporting that sensationalized or exaggerated events to increase the sale of newspapers.

  1. American battleship that mysteriously exploded in Havana, Cuba,

        killing 260 Americans.

  1. Famous American artist sent to Cuba to send back pictures that

        could be published so as to stir up war fever.

  1. Controversial letter written by the Spanish Minister to the US that

        criticized President McKinley calling him “weak”.

  1. Rallying cry of war supporters.

  1. American Naval commander in the Philippines.

  1. Filipino leader who helped defeat the Spanish forces in the

        ground war in the Philippines.

  1. Assistant Sec. of the Navy who resigned to go lead the voluntary Cavalry regiment known as the “Rough Riders”.

  1. African American regiment who fought valiantly alongside of the Rough Riders.

  1. Decisive battle that helped T. Roosevelt receive a Medal of Honor.

  1. Name two of the territories acquired by the US as a result of the Treaty of Paris.

  1. Group of Americans who were against annexing the Philippines and

        against expansion of American influence altogether.

  1. Conflict that broke out when the US tried to assume control of the

        Philippines and not allow them to have independence.

  1. Forced addition to the Cuban Constitution that made Cuba a US protectorate. 

  1. Law that gave the US the right to determine who would serve in

        positions of leadership in Puerto Rico.

  1. Country where the US supported a revolution in order to build a

        canal through South America.

  1. Roosevelt’s extension of the Monroe Doctrine which said the

        US would be the police power in Latin America.

  1. President Taft policy of substituting “money for bullets” in Latin America; policy of protecting American investments there.

  1. Mexican leader that the US supported in the Revolution in 1914.

  1. Mexican bandit who attacked a town in New Mexico in 1916,

        killing 17 Americans.

  1. Military leader that was sent to Mexico to track down the Mexican bandit.

  1. Event that caused the US to disregard events in Mexico and

        focus on more pressing issues in Europe.