Chapter 9 Terms Quiz Flashcards
Alfred T Mahan
Published Influence Of Sea Power who stressed the importance of naval power during the British empire
Frederick J Turner
Wrote the Frontier Thesis and laid the intellectual groundwork for a new kind of U.S. foreign policy that led the United Stated into Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam during the Spanish-American War.
Mathew Perry
Us naval officer. Headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West. Got the treaty of Kanagawa signed.
Queen Liliuokalani
First Hawaiian queen, was against U.S. annexation
Jose Marti
Cuban poet focused on Cuba gaining its freedom from Spain
William Randolph Hearst
Built the nations largest newspaper chain
Yellow press
Journalism that had over exaggerated containing big headlines, eye catching images, and little true fact.
Jingoism
Extreme nationalism/ patriotism. Ex. only eating food from your country.
Insurrection
Violent uprising/ rebellion against the government
Guerrilla Warfare
Small groups of regular military using ambushes, sabotages, hit-and-runs etc.
William Howard Taft
27th President of the united states
Boxer rebellion
anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901
Open Door Policy
foreign countries have equal access to commercial and industrial trade rights in China
Big Stick Diplomacy
An ideology used by Theodore Roosevelt which meant negotiating respectfully, but being backed by the “big stick” which was the military
Dollar diplomacy
Created by William Howard Taft, was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
