Imperialism

Question 1

Alfred T. Mahan - Influence Upon Sea Power

Answer 1

argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance; stimulated the naval race among the great powers

Question 2

Anti Imperialist League - Anti Imperialist League (Carnegie)

Answer 2

objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire
idealism, self-interest, racism, constitutionalism, and other reasons motivated them, but they failed to make their case; the Philippines were annexed in 1900

Question 3

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 3

popular peasant uprising in China that blamed foreign people and institutions for the loss of the traditional Chinese way of life
led to creation of the Open Door Policy

Question 4

Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 4

nickname for African American soldiers who fought in the wars in the plains against Native Americans in the 1870s
formed after Congress passed legislation in 1866 that allowed African Americans to enlist in the country’s regular peacetime military

Question 5

Commodore George Dewey

Answer 5

a US naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines

Question 6

De Lome Letter

Answer 6

the Spanish minister in Washington sent a secret letter he wrote describing President McKinley as weak with no mind of his own, angering many Americans when the letter was intercepted and published in American papers

Question 7

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 7

president William Howard Taft’s foreign policy in which he sought to address international problems by extending American investment overseas, believing that such activity would both benefit the US economy and promote stability abroad

Question 8

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 8

the first President of the Philippines and led Philippine forces first against Spain in the latter part of the Philippine Revolution, and then in the Spanish-American War, and during against the US during the Philippine-American War

Question 9

Foraker Act

Answer 9

established Puerto Rico as an unorganized US territory and did not give Puerto Ricans citizenship

Question 10

Haiti

Answer 10

troubled Caribbean island nation where a president’s murder led Wilson to send in the marines and assume American control of the police and finances

Question 11

Insular Cases

Answer 11

supreme court case whereby Puerto Rico was deemed unable to self govern.
established the fact that the protections and liberties of the US Constitution would not follow into territories such as Puerto Rico.

Question 12

Jingoism

Answer 12

extreme nationalism in the form of aggressive foreign policy
a country’s avocation to the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests

Question 13

Jones Act

Answer 13

law according territorial status to the Philippines and promising independence as soon as a “stable government” could be established

Question 14

Open Door Policy

Answer 14

the proposition to keep trade in China open equally to trade with all countries, preventing any one nation from controlling trade in the region
the policy also called for powers to respect Chinese territorial integrity

Question 15

Panama Canal - Teddy Roosevelt Message to Congress, Panama

Answer 15

Roosevelt helped to build the Panama Canal in Central America to cut travel time significantly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Question 16

Pancho Villa

Answer 16

mexican revolutionary who killed many Americans in Mexico
The US sent John J Pershing to capture him but never did

Question 17

Platt Amendment

Answer 17

a treaty between the US and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba’s independence from foreign intervention

Question 18

Queen Liliuokalani - Queen Lil Protest to McKinley

Answer 18

The last reigning queen of Hawaii
She insisted that native Hawaiians should control the Islands while American planters renewed their efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the US

Question 19

Rough Riders

Answer 19

A group of American volunteers that formed to fight at San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Many of them were cowboys, ex-convicts, and other rugged men

Question 20

Roosevelt Corollary - Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 20

a speech in which Roosevelt stated that European intervention in the Western Hemisphere was over.
Let Latin American countries know that the US would intervene to maintain peace and stability in the region
added on to Monroe Doctrine

Question 21

Spanish-American War / Splendid Little War

Answer 21

established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the US, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million

Question 22

San Juan Hill

Answer 22

a hill near Santiago de Cuba, the scene of a decisive 1 July 1898 battle during the Spanish-American War

Question 23

Teller Amendment

Answer 23

a proviso to President William McKinley’s war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the US had overthrown the Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom

Question 24

USS Maine / “Remember the Maine”

Answer 24

after the maine blew up, this was used to blame spanish and ignite war

Question 25

Victoriano Huerta

Answer 25

mexican military officer and President of Mexico who was also leader of the violent revolution that took place in 1913
his rise to power caused many Mexicans to cross the border as well as angering the US who saw him as a dictator

Question 26

William McKinley

Answer 26

he presided over victory in the Spanish–American War of 1898; gained control of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba; restored prosperity after a deep depression; rejected the inflationary monetary policy of free silver, keeping the nation on the gold standard; and raised protective tariffs

Question 27

William Gorgas

Answer 27

army physician who helped eradicate Yellow Fever and Malaria from Panama so work on the Panama Canal could proceed