Flash Cards
What is the policy of taking over foreign lands?
Imperialism
What is the opposite of Isolationism?
Expansionism
What is the desire to spread one’s religion and/or culture to other
Missionary Zeal
One of the three main motives for imperialism – identify the motive that stresses the importance of military strength and power
The POLITICAL motive
One of the three main motives for imperialism – identify the motive that stresses the importance of gaining control over raw materials and markets for manufactured goods
ECONOMIC motivation
One of the three main motives for imperialism – identify the motive that stresses spreading ones religion/culture/values to other people
The SOCIAL motive
What are the two main methods/means for gaining wealth through imperialism?
Gaining control of raw materials (and new labor) and
Expanding trade by gaining control of new markets for manufactured goods
Which American President was an early supporter of imperialism and promoted expansion into Hawaii and the Philippines?
William McKinley
Who were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
Two New York newspaper publishers famous for Yellow Journalism and fostering a war hysteria that led the U.S. into war with Spain
What foreign policy belief was shared by Mark Twain, Williams Jennings Bryan, Jane Addams, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie?
They were famous anti-Imperialists – Americans who opposed U.S. imperialism, especially the U.S. take-over of the Philippines?
Which U.S. President greatly increased U.S. involvement/intervention into Latin America?
Teddy Roosevelt
Identify the Indiana Senator who was famous for his promotion of U.S. imperialism, saying it was an economic necessity and our God-given mission to bring liberty to the less fortunate.
Senator Alfred Beverage
What land battle in Cuba during the Spanish-American War helped make Teddy Roosevelt an American hero?
The Battle of San Juan Hill
Name the group of volunteers, mostly Native Americans, cowboys and college students, who fought under Roosevelt’s command in a famous battle of the Spanish-American War.
The Rough Riders
Which American President said that our foreign policy should be a reflection of our values – not based on force or economic gain?
Woodrow Wilson
When did Washington issue his policy recommendation that the U.S. avoid alliances or involvement in the affairs of Europe?
In his Farewell Address, which initiated a long American policy of isolationism
What expression, made famous in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, states the belief that Europeans have a moral responsibility to spread the benefits of Christianity and western culture to “uncivilized,” “savage” populations?
The White Man’s Burden
What is the term for areas where a country enjoys special legal and trading privileges?
A “sphere of influence”
What is the term for the exaggerated, sensational style of newspaper writing, designed to sell newspapers that some historians argue helped start the Spanish-American War?
Yellow Journalism
What is the term for a nation whose independence is limited by a controlling country, for example, Cuba after the Spanish-American War?
A protectorate
Also known as Gunboat Diplomacy, this is a foreign policy which emphasizes the use of military power or the threat of force
Big Stick Diplomacy
What is the term for Taft’s foreign policy which emphasized investment, trade, and economic ties to build US influence?
Dollar Diplomacy
Identify the addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated that the U.S. had the right to become involved in Latin American affairs in order to preserve law and order.
The Roosevelt Corollary
What country was opened to American trade by the Treaty of Kanagawa?
Japan
This trade agreement stated that all nations should be free to trade with China
The Open Door Policy
This attack on foreign missionaries to China led an international force to invade China, ending any hope that China would remain free of western imperialism
The Boxer Rebellion
Its sinking was a major factor that led to the Spanish-American War
USS Maine?
The U.S. seized control of this land when American plantation owners felt that their property was threatened by the new government
Hawaii
What do Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines have in common?
They are lands that the U.S. gained control over as a result of the Spanish-American War
What engineering feat reduced the time and distance to travel by sea from the East to the West Coast of the U.S.?
The Panama Canal
What country refused to the U.S. to pay $40 million for land to build a Panama Canal?
Colombia
Roosevelt sent this group of ships on a world tour to show U.S. naval power
The Great White Fleet
U.S. purchase of this land was called Seward’s Folly by anti-imperialists
Alaska
Why was the United States eager to take control over the Philippines, rather than grant independence to the Filipino people?
The Philippines were a doorstep to the vast markets of China – like Hawaii and Japan, they were a base and potential fueling stations for trade with China
