Imperialism Flashcards
Depression of 1893
Encouraged businessmen to look for opportunities overseas
Senator Albert j beveridege
We are producing more than we can use so we must find a new market
Social Darwinism
Races constantly struggle for existence and only the fittest can survive
John fiske
Wrote in harpers magazine that English speaking people would eventually control every land
Josiah strong
Wrote our country: it’s possible future and present crisis
Anglo Saxon race in America was commissioned to speed it’s institutions over earth
John w. burgess
Wrote political science and comparative law
Our duty to uplift less fortunate and force our institutions upon them
Alfred Thayer mahan
Captain and later admiral in the us navy
Wrote the influence of sea power upon history
James g Blaine
Secretary of State led efforts to expand amer influence in Latin America
Pan American union
Weak international organization located in Washington that served as clearing house for distributing info to the member nations but rejected blaines proposal for for inter American customs union and arbitration procedures for hemispheric disputes
Richard olney
Sec of state , charged Brit with violating Monroe doctrine when they ignored demands that Venezuela dispute be submitted for arbitration
King kamehameha
Established dominance in HI, welcomed traders and helped develops trade with china
G P Judd
Prime minister in HI under kamehameha who agreed to establish constitutional monarchy
Queen Liliuokalani
Powerful nationalist elevated to the throne for 2 years
General valeriano weyler
Cuban, Led spanish confined civilians and made concentration camps where many died of disease and malnutrition
Dupuy de lome
Spanish minister. Cuban agent stole his letter and gave it to America who published it
George Dewey
Attacked Spanish naval forces in Philippines
Pascual cervera
Led Spanish fleet in Cuba
Lares rebellion
Resistance to spanish rule in PR in 1868
Luis Muñoz revera
Led political pressure and got Spain to give island degree of independence.
Foraker act
Ended military rule in PR and established a colonial gov
Jones act
PR to be us territory and made all PRs American citizens
Treaty of Paris 1898
Armistice Cuba, PR, Guam, and US gave $20 million for spain to cede Philippines
Anti imperialist league
Against ratifying the treaty of Paris
William Jennings Bryan
Anti imperialist but supported treaty of Paris