Social Studies Midterm Chapter 10 Spanish and American War Flashcards
The queen of Hawaii who had to surrender to Sanford B. Dole. She removed the property owning requirement for voting, and she lived under the belief of “Hawaii for Hawaiians.”
Queen Liliuokalani
White foreigners who planned to overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy
Haoles
The policy in which in which stronger nations extended their economic, political, or military control over weaker countries
Imperialism
The three factors that fueled the new American imperialism:
- Desire for military strength
- Thirst for new markets
- Belief in cultural superiority
This man urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other powerful nations. The nine steel haul cruisers were built between 1883 and 1890 with the urging of this man and others
Alfred T. Mahan
This man was a supporter of American Expansion , he was the secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska.
William Seward
This was a important naval base, it became a refueling station for American ships
Pearl Harbor
This man worked along with the marines to to overthrow the Hawaiian government.
John L. Stevens
This man became the new ruler of Hawaii after it was overthrown.
Sanford B. Dole
He was a New York World journalist who travelled to Cuba to cover the second Cuban war for independence from Spain
James Creelman
This man was considered one of the “founding fathers of Cuba”. He was a poet and journalist. He organized a Cuban resistance against Spain. His slogan was “Cuba Libre!”
Jose Marti
This man was sent to Cuba to restore order. He herded the entire rural population of Cuba in to concentration camps. About 300,000 Cubans filled these camps.
Valeriano Weyler
A style of writing that includes a lot of exaggeration
Yellow journalism
This man from Cuba wrote a controversial letter criticizing William McKinley
Enrique Dupay de Lôme
The ship that was sent to Cuba to bring home U. S. citizens to protect them from the fighting, this ship was blown up and the Spanish are blamed for this
USS Maine
This man was a commodore for the Americans who gave them the okay to open fire on the Spanish
George Dewey
The voluntary Cavalry who was under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
The battle were the Rough Riders and two African American regiments defeated the Spanish. This was one of the most significant battles during the Spanish American war
San Juan Hill
The secretary of state who called the Spanish- American war a “splendid little war”
John Hay
The treaty that ended the Spanish-American war
Treaty of Paris
An advocate of Puerto-Rican self government
Luis Muñoz Rivera
This act ended military rule in Puerto Rico and set up a civil government
Foraker Act
This amendment made the United States stated that:
- the U.S. could intervene in Cuba
- Cuba was not to go into debt
- Cuba could not let another foreign power control their independence or control a part of their land
- the U.S. could buy or lease land there
Platt Amendment
A countries whose affairs are partially controlled by another
Protectorate
This man was upset with the outcome of the Treaty of Paris, he thought the Phillippines had achieved independence
Emilio Aguinaldo
The proposer of the Open Door Notes
John Hay
These notes were shared with other imperialist nations proposing that they should let the U.S. have a share in trading rights
Open Door Notes
This is what happened when many Chinese people tried to rid their country of Chinese converts to Christianity and missionaries. European nations as well as America marched into China and ended this
The Boxer Rebellion
This man played an important role in the building of the Panama Canal, he wrote on the process of building it
Joseph Bucklin Bishop
This was one of the biggest engineering feats
Panama Canal
This demanded that European countries stay out of the way of Latin-American countries
The Monroe Doctrine
This was added to the Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
The leaders of the Rebels who opposed Carranza
Francisco “Pancho” Villa and Emiliano Zapata
He was ordered by Woodrow Wilson to immediately find and capture Fransisco Villa
John J. Pershing
The gurantee of loans made by the U.S. to to other countries
Dollar diplomacy
