Chapter 27

Question 1

big sister policy

Answer 1

foreign policy of James G. Blaine (secretary of state), wanting to open Latin American markets to Yankee traders, & rallying Latin American nations on American leadership

Question 2

Great Rapprochement

Answer 2

American diplomats began to cultivate close, cordial relations with Great Britain, which would intensify during WWI

Question 3

McKinley Tariff

Answer 3

raised duties on Hawaiian sugar & put out efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the US

Question 4

insurrectos

Answer 4

Cuban insurgents(rebels) who fought freedom from Spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economic interests in Cuban plantations & railroads

Question 5

USS Maine

Answer 5

American battleship used to forward over a friendly watch over Cuba. Blowing up in Havana Harbor loosing 260 sailors, later evidence showing it was accidental, resulting from a combustion in one of the internal coal bunkers. Many Americans felt it was Spanish submarine mines fault

Question 6

Teller Amendment

Answer 6

a condition added on to President William McKinley’s was plans, proclaimed that when the US overthrows Spain, Cuba’s freedom would be given. Testified against the “anti-imperialist” design of the original war plans

Question 7

Rough Riders

Answer 7

Theodore Roosevelt organized it, a colorful, diverse group of Cuban war volunteers like consisted of cowboys, ex-convicts, emphasizing it at campaigns for Governor of NY & McKinley’s VP

Question 8

Anti-Imperialist League

Answer 8

diverse group formed in order to protest American colonial oversight in Philippines. Included university presidents, industrialists, clergymen, & labor leaders. Largest organization on the US foreign policy issue, declining after the US signed the Treaty of Paris & the hostilities broke out between Filipino nationalists & American forces

Question 9

Foraker Act

Answer 9

granted Puerto Ricans a limited degree of a popular gov’t. First comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories needed after the Spanish American War, serving as a model for future acts in the Philippians

Question 10

insular cases

Answer 10

Puerto Ricans & Filipinos wouldn’t enjoy all American rights, (Supreme Court proclaimed that within these cases, the Constitution didn’t follow the flag)

Question 11

Plat Amendment

Answer 11

US pressured the Cuban gov’t to write this into the Constitution, which limited Cuba’s treaty-making abilities, controlling its debt, specifying the US could intervene the military, restoring order

Question 12

open door note

Answer 12

diplomatic letters in which John Hay (Sec of State) suggested that the great powers should respect Chinese rights. Established the Open Door Policy; ensuring access to Chinese market for the US even though the US didn’t have a formal spheres of influence in China

Question 13

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 13

uprising in China against foreign influence, crushed by international force of eighteen thousand soldiers, including thousands of Americans. Paving the way for the Rev. of 1911, leading to establishing the Republic of China in 1912

Question 14

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Answer 14

signed between the US & Great Britain, giving Americans a free hand to build a canal in Central America, nullifying the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 (prohibiting the British of US from acquiring territory in Central America

Question 15

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 15

policy of “preventive intervention” advocated by Roosevelt in his Annual Message to Congress, stipulating that the US would retain a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin Am. nations, restoring their military & finances

Question 16

Root-Takahira agreement

Answer 16

US & Japan agreed to respect eachother’s territorial possessions in the Pacific, upholding the Open Door in China, created to ease tensions between them, resulting in a weakened American influence over further Japanese control over China

Question 17

Josiah Strong

Answer 17

American clergyman, preached Anglo-Saxon superiority, calling for stronger US missionaries overseas

Question 18

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 18

American naval officer, wrote books that were influential, which emphasized sea power, advocating a big navy

Question 19

James G. Blaine

Answer 19

advocated a “Big Sister” policy: Us domination in Latin America. Served as speaker of the house & Secretary of State under James A. Garfield & Chester A. Arthur

Question 20

Richard Olney

Answer 20

US Secretary of State, used Monroe Doctrine to pressure Britain in the Venezuelan boundary crisis

Question 21

Queen Lilukalani

Answer 21

Hawaiian ruler, overthrown in a revolution which was led by white planters, helped by US troops

Question 22

“Butcher” Weyer

Answer 22

Spanish general, whose brutal tactics against Cuban rebels angered the American public opinion

Question 23

Dupuy de Lome

Answer 23

Spanish minister to the US, found himself in the middle of a scandal when in 1898 the harsh private letter he wrote, about President McKinley was made public

Question 24

George Dewey

Answer 24

naval commander who opens the doors to American imperialism in Asia due to his May Day victory in the Philippines in 1898

Question 25

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 25

leader of the Filipino insurgents (rebels) who helped Americans defeat Spain

Question 26

William H. Taft

Answer 26

civil Governor of the Philippines under William McKinley, becoming the 27th president of the US in 1909

Question 27

John Hay

Answer 27

when McKinley became president, he became the US ambassador to England, & served as McKinley’s Secretary of State. He wrote the Open Door Notes; calling for free economic competition in China

Question 28

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Answer 28

he was a rough rider, a cowboy, hero of the Cuban campaign. Becoming president after McKinley was assassinate & continued to reelect as Republican, & then for another term as the progressive Party Candidate