Chapter 19 Ame Emp

Question 1

Guano Islands Act of 1856

Answer 1

Authorized and encouraged Americans to venture into seas and claim lands with bat poop for US.
- collect bird excrement for fertilizer to industrial farming
- legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected was NOT true

Question 2

Open Door Policy

Answer 2

Called Western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets, main China for free trade

Question 3

“Yellow Journals”

Answer 3

Newspaper that promoted sensational stories, notoriously at the cost of accuracy
- Congress declaring war on April 25, 1898 when negotiations failed to produce a mutally agreeable settlement

Question 4

Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

Answer 4

Won fame after taking San Juan Hill

Question 5

Monroe Doctrine/Manifest Destiny

Answer 5

Phiippine-American War was conceieved through these two ideas leading to American colonization until independence in 1946’

Question 6

“Great White Fleet”

Answer 6

Naval power was pressed and projected American force through power of this
- exemplified America’s new power
- creating battleships and a “blue water” navy that would win battles against rival fleets
- (transofmred American navy by emphasizing this strategy

Question 7

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 7

The framwork leading to the development of an informal approach to empire through “gunboat diplomacy” and “dollar diplomacy”
Monroe Doctrine: declared that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American naiton

Question 8

Gunboat/Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 8

Gunboat: idea of a “manly duty” to police “inferior/uncivilized” people to protect American interest
Dollar: allowed less costly form of control than military occupation, aovodied troubles of military occupation