Social Studies Flashcards
Annexation
When a Large country takes over a smaller country.
A Gift From The Gods
President McKinley said the Philippines was this because he believed the Philippine people were backwards and unable to rule themselves.
Anti Imperialists
Isolationists who did not want to take over other lands.
Armistice
Cease fire. Official stop to fighting.
Artifact
Object or piece of an object that is usually man made and left over from an earlier time.
Bayonett Constitution
When American businessmen forced the last king of Hawaii to give up his power at gun point.
Buffalo Soldiers
Black men who fought for the USA and did not get any credit for their part in war.
Commodore George Dewey
USA Navy, sailed into Manila Bay- Philippians and sank or disabled every Spanish ship there in FIRST battle of SPAM War.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Philippine exile who was on Dewey’s ship to return to the Philippians to fight for independence from Spain.
Expansionism
To grow, to take over other lands.
Famous Expansionists
Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Mahan
Famous Isolationists
Grover Cleveland and Mark Twain
Figurehead
A person still has their title but no power.
Guerilla Attack
Hit and run by a small group of soldiers
Grover Cleveland
USA President who was sympathetic to the Hawaiian people. He did not want to annex Hawaii. He was an isolationist.
Imperialism
Pertaining to an empire. Sometimes linked to expansionism
Imperialist
Expansionists who believed we should take over other countries.
Insurecto
Cuban revolutionary fighter
Isolationism
Ignoring other country’s conflicts. Minding my own business
Manifest Destiny
God destines or wants us to take over and expand into other lands.
Prestige
Wanted to look good in the world and to have world respect
Primary Source
The person who was there and is sharing the situation, like an autobiography
Queen Liliuokalani
First and last queen of Hawaii
Secondary Source
The person who is sharing the story about someone else, like a biography
Sensationalism
Big stories, big headlines, about crime, romance and strange events that may or may not be true.
The Hawaiian League
Secret group of USA pineapple and sugar plantation owners who wanted more control in the government and for the USA to annex Hawaii.
Theodore Roosevelt
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT! He led the Rough Riders to victory up San Juan Hill, which was a great battle.
The Platt Amendment
Gave the USA the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuba, which means that we can get involved if the Cuban government is doing anything we don’t like OR if anyone invades them.
The Treaty of Paris
Peace treaty between USA and Spain, signed in Paris, France, that ended the SPAM War.
White Man’s Idea
People of color need to be “Americanized”
William McKinley
Next president of the USA who annexed Hawaii.
SA president that did NOT want to go to war with Spain.
Yellow Journalism
Stories are written to get a reaction out of the reader. May be false. The term yellow may come from the cheap yellow paper used to print these papers or the very popular YELLOW KID comic strip.
