Chapter 18-Vocab

Question 1

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 1

last Hawaiian queen before USA took control

Question 2

imperialism

Answer 2

the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories

Question 3

Alfred T. Mahan

Answer 3

US navy admiral that built up and urged government to strengthen military

Question 4

William Seward

Answer 4

Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson that supported imperialism and arranged for US to buy Alaska

Question 5

Pearl Harbor

Answer 5

Hawaii’s best port that the US government built a naval base on

Question 6

Sanford B. Dole

Answer 6

head of the government that took over Hawaii after a revolution and overthrew Queen Liliuokalani

Question 7

Foraker Act

Answer 7

ended military rule and set up a civil government in Puerto Rico that gave the USA president the power to appoint the governor and members of the upper house of its legislature where locals could only elect the lower house (years later all houses could be voted on by locals)

Question 8

Platt Amendment

Answer 8

the added rules to the Cuban constitution that developed relationship with USA: no treaties that limit its independence with foreign powers, USA could intervene, no debt that couldn’t be repaid was allowed, and USA could buy or lease island land for naval stations

Question 9

protectorate

Answer 9

a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power

Question 10

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 10

rebel leader of the Philippine-American War that fought with guerrilla tactics

Question 11

John Hay

Answer 11

Secretary of State that issued the Open Door notes (being mostly concerned about China)

Question 12

Open Door notes

Answer 12

letters that addressed to leaders of imperialist nations suggesting that they all share trading rights with the USA

Question 13

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 13

a revolt by certain Chinese that killed missionaries and other foreigners in an effort to rid the country of non-natives

Question 14

Panama Canal

Answer 14

the canal that the USA bought rights for from France and then rented land rights from Panama after helping the country gain independence from Colombia; it connected the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

Question 15

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 15

an added message to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the US would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America

Question 16

dollar diplomacy

Answer 16

the policy of using the US government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people

Question 17

Francisco “Pancho” Villa

Answer 17

rebel that opposed the leadership of Carranza that shot Americans when they supported Carranza’s government

Question 18

Emiliano Zapata

Answer 18

rebel that opposed the leadership of Carranza

Question 19

John J. Pershing

Answer 19

a general sent to capture Villa dead or alive