Ch 9-10 Flashcards
Imperialism
the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories
Yellow journalism
Exaggerates news to attract more readers
Treaty of Wanghia
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Treaty of Kanagawa
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Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest
Platt Amendment (4)
Cuba can’t make treaties that threaten independence
US can intervene in Cuba
Cuba can’t go into debt that it’s gov can’t repay
US can have land for naval or refueling stations
Anglo-Saxonism
English speaking whites are superior race
Roosevelt Corollary
US will use force to protect economic interests in Latin America
Dollar diplomacy
Garunteed loans made to foreign countries
Boxer Rebellion
Effort by Chinese to get rid of foreigners in China
Northern securities company
EST monopoly over nw railroads
Meat Inspection Act
Requirements to make meat cleaner
Pure Food & Drug Act
Halted sale of contaminated food and drugs
Bully pulpit
Roosevelt can dictate orders wherever he went
Influences upon sea power
Shows importance of military strength and uses Brit empire as example
Causes of the Spanish-American War (4)
Cuban people burned plantations and blamed it on Spain,
Valeriano weyler puts Americans and Cubans in concentration camps, yellow journalism, uss Maine explodes
Alfred t mahan
Wrote influences upon sea power, wanted America’s military to grow
Valeriano weyler
Put us in concentration camps in Cuba
Jose Marti’
Cuban poet who wrote against the Americans and Spanish having control of Cuba
Sanford B. Dole
First leader of Hawaii
John Hay open door notes
We would open up our trade with everyone to protect interests in China
Emilio Aguinaldo
Rebel leader who was mad at America for treaty of Paris because it said Philippines was to be annexed which meant he couldn’t rule Philippines
