Chapter 18

Question 1

Reasons for Imperialism

Answer 1

1. Desire to keep up with the European powers
2. New trading markets for American businesses
3. Desire to spread american values

Question 2

Hawaii

Answer 2

Militarily and economically important to U.S. because it was..

1. Refueling station for ships
2. Sugar production

Question 3

Alasaka

Answer 3

Purchased from Russia for 7.2 Million dollars

Question 4

Spanish-American War 1898

Answer 4

Americans and Filipinos together defeated the Spanish by August, 1898.

Question 5

Main events of the war

Answer 5

1. War began in the Philippines in May, 1898.

2. Americans landed in Cuba in June, 1898.

Question 6

Results of the war

Answer 6

1. Cuba gained its independence
2. Spain ceded the island of Guam and Puerto Rico to the U.S.
3. Spain sold the Philippines to the U.S for 20 million dollars.

Question 7

Jose Marti

Answer 7

Organized resistance against Spain’s guerrilla campaign.

Question 8

Alfred Mahaan

Answer 8

Urged that the U.S. had to strengthen its naval forces before it could become a world power.

Question 9

U.S,S Maine

Answer 9

Blew up in the Havana. Americans cry for war against Spain.

Question 10

De Lome Letter

Answer 10

Criticized president McKinley, called him weak.

Question 11

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Yellow Journalism

Answer 12

Exaggerated the news to attract readers.

Question 13

Joseph Pulitzer

Answer 13

Joseph Pulitzer, born Pulitzer József, was a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of “new journalism” to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s. Wikipedia

Question 14

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 14

American newspaper publisher who built the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism.

Question 15

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 15

Led a Filipino revolt against U.S control.

Question 16

Treaty of Paris 1898

Answer 16

Agreement ending Spanish-American war.

Question 17

Philippine-American War 1900

Answer 17

In Feb 1899, the Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, rose in revolt.

Question 18

Anti Imperialist League

Answer 18

organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area

Question 19

“Open Door Notes”

Answer 19

proposal that the imperialist nations should share trading rights the U.S., especially in China.

Question 20

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 20

Secret group formed in China to get rid of foreigners. It was an anti-imperialist, anti-christian movement.

Question 21

Panama Canal

Answer 21

Canal built through Central America to reduce travel time and improve trade.

Question 22

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 22

U.S. will use force to protect it’s interest in Latin American. Addition to the 1820 Monroe Doctrine.

Question 23

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 23

Policy of using the U.S. government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by american business.

Question 24

Missionary Diplomacy

Answer 24

U.S has a moral responsibility to recognize any Latin American government that it viewed as undemocratic, oppressive, or hostile to the U.S.

Question 25

John Hay

Answer 25

U.S. official who helped open up China.

Question 26

Pancho Villa

Answer 26

Fierce Nationalist who courted the support and aid of the U.S.

Question 27

Rough Riders

Answer 27

Prominent U.S. regiment of volunteer cavalry led by Roosevelt.

Question 28

“Black Jack” Pershing

Answer 28

Brigadier General for the U.S.

Question 29

Mckinley

Answer 29

President during the Spanish-American war.

Question 30

Roosevelt

Answer 30

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 31

Taft

Answer 31

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 32

Wilson

Answer 32

Missionary Diplomacy

Question 33

Foreign Policy

Answer 33

United States joined the ranks of the imperial powers with possessions that stretched halfway around the globe, from Puerto Rico in the Caribbean to the Philippines in the Pacific