Manifest Destiny Flashcards
New Manifest Destiny
Acquiring land outside of the continental US
Albert Beveridge
An Indiana senator who was sponsored and supported Theodore Roosevelt
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
United States sided with Venezuela over a dispute about the boundary between Venezuela and the British Guinea
Yellow Joirnalism
Flash Statements to sell newspaper
Boxer Rebellion
When the boxers, secrete Chinese martial arts society, launched a revolt against foreigners in China
De Lome Letter
A letter written by Dupay de Lome, Spanish minister in Washington, that was stolen by a Cuban agent and given to the American press that insulted president McKinley
Remember the Maine
The national chant that called for revenge for the explosion of the Maine on Spain
John Hay
Secretary of State who called the Spanish American war “a splendid little war”
Theodore Roosevelt
Assistant secretary of the navy who was an ardent imperialist, active proponent of war, and a man uninhibited by the knowledge that he was a relatively minor figure in the military hierarchy. Led the rough riders
Commodore Dewey
Commander of Pacific Squadron who attacked Spanish naval forces in the Philippines in the event of the war
Rough Riders
Led by Theodore Roosevelt, made sure his regiment began fighting before the fighting ended
Smoked Yankees
We’re what black soldiers were called during the Spanish American war
Treaty of Paris 1888-1889
Ended the Spanish American war
Anti imperialist League
Created to battle the annexation of the Phillipines
General Leonard Woods
Nominally led the Rough Riders
Platt Amendment
Cuba from making treaties with it gee nations which gave the US control of Cuban foreign policy
Emilio Aquinando
Claimed to head the legitimate government of the nation
William Howard Taft
Became the first civilian governor
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
United States sided with Venezuela over a dispute about the boundary between Venezuela and the British Guinea
Yellow Joirnalism
Flash Statements to sell newspaper
Boxer Rebellion
When the boxers, secrete Chinese martial arts society, launched a revolt against foreigners in China
De Lome Letter
A letter written by Dupay de Lome, Spanish minister in Washington, that was stolen by a Cuban agent and given to the American press that insulted president McKinley
Remember the Maine
The national chant that called for revenge for the explosion of the Maine on Spain
John Hay
Secretary of State who called the Spanish American war “a splendid little war”
Theodore Roosevelt
Assistant secretary of the navy who was an ardent imperialist, active proponent of war, and a man uninhibited by the knowledge that he was a relatively minor figure in the military hierarchy. Led the rough riders
Commodore Dewey
Commander of Pacific Squadron who attacked Spanish naval forces in the Philippines in the event of the war
Rough Riders
Led by Theodore Roosevelt, made sure his regiment began fighting before the fighting ended
Smoked Yankees
We’re what black soldiers were called during the Spanish American war
Treaty of Paris 1888-1889
Ended the Spanish American war
Anti imperialist League
Created to battle the annexation of the Phillipines
General Leonard Woods
Nominally led the Rough Riders
Platt Amendment
Cuba from making treaties with it gee nations which gave the US control of Cuban foreign policy
Emilio Aquinando
Claimed to head the legitimate government of the nation
William Howard Taft
Became the first civilian governor
Henry Cabot Lodge
A Massachusetts senator that said America “must not fall out of the line of March.”
John Fiske
Predicted that the US would control every land. That was not already the seat of an established civilization
First Pan- American Congress
A weak international organization located in Washington that served as a clearinghouse for distributing information to the member nations
Open Door Notes
When John Hay proposed to England, Germany, Russia, France, Japan, and Italy three principles on foreign affairs
