| - The concept where one nation extends its power and influence over other lands for economic, political, and military purposes.
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| - What industrialized nations hoped to access in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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| - Places overseas that many countries hoped to establish for military purposes.
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| - A term that means a strong sense of pride or love for one’s country with a support for aggressive foreign policy.
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| - A notion that one group of people feels that they are more advanced and should help out other “backward” people.
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| - 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.
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| - Protestant minister who believed it was the responsibility of the Anglo-Saxon races to spread Christian values and democracy.
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| - Island nation in the Pacific where many Americans became very influential when they took over the sugar industry there.
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| - 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.
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| - Hawaiian Queen who was overthrown by American Sugar Planters.
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| - American Sugar Tycoon who became President of Hawaii in 1893.
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| - American President who supported the annexation of Hawaii.
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| - A geographic area where an outside nation exerts special economic or political control.
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| - Secretary of State John Hay’s goal that would allow all nations to have equal trading rights in China.
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| - Incident where a Chinese group known as the Secret Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists tried to expel all foreigners.
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| - American commander who first gained access to Japan in 1853 after many years of being closed off to the outside world.
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| - War that Japan fought in 1904 over access to raw materials in Korea and Manchuria.
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| - Name given to the group of battleships that President T. Roosevelt sent on an around the world cruise as a show of US strength.
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| - Leader of the Independence movement in Cuba; was exiled but came back to give his life for Cuban Independence.
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| - Spanish military leader sent to Cuba to put down the Cuba Libre’ revolt.
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| - American publisher of the New York Journal; was very instrumental
in getting Americans to support going to war. |
| - A new style of newspaper reporting that sensationalized or exaggerated events to increase the sale of newspapers.
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| - American battleship that mysteriously exploded in Havana, Cuba,
killing 260 Americans. |
| - Famous American artist sent to Cuba to send back pictures that
could be published so as to stir up war fever. |
| - Controversial letter written by the Spanish Minister to the US that
criticized President McKinley calling him “weak”. |
| - Rallying cry of war supporters.
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| - American Naval commander in the Philippines.
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| - Filipino leader who helped defeat the Spanish forces in the
ground war in the Philippines. |
| - Assistant Sec. of the Navy who resigned to go lead the voluntary Cavalry regiment known as the “Rough Riders”.
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| - African American regiment who fought valiantly alongside of the Rough Riders.
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| - Decisive battle that helped T. Roosevelt receive a Medal of Honor.
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| - Name two of the territories acquired by the US as a result of the Treaty of Paris.
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| - Group of Americans who were against annexing the Philippines and
against expansion of American influence altogether. |
| - Conflict that broke out when the US tried to assume control of the
Philippines and not allow them to have independence. |
| - Forced addition to the Cuban Constitution that made Cuba a US protectorate.
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| - Law that gave the US the right to determine who would serve in
positions of leadership in Puerto Rico. |
| - Country where the US supported a revolution in order to build a
canal through South America. |
| - Roosevelt’s extension of the Monroe Doctrine which said the
US would be the police power in Latin America. |
| - President Taft policy of substituting “money for bullets” in Latin America; policy of protecting American investments there.
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| - Mexican leader that the US supported in the Revolution in 1914.
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| - Mexican bandit who attacked a town in New Mexico in 1916,
killing 17 Americans. |
| - Military leader that was sent to Mexico to track down the Mexican bandit.
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| - Event that caused the US to disregard events in Mexico and
focus on more pressing issues in Europe. |