Spanish American War Midterm Test Flashcards
Social Darwinism ideas attempt to
justify policies of imperial expansion
The purchase of Alaska from Russia
$7.2 million
A huge bargain
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what to be known as
Yellow journalism
Scream conceited practically all the American demands concerning what, before the United States declared war
Cuba
In the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American wa, Theodore Roosevelt helped
Leadthe Roughriders
In the 1880’s a french company did what in panama
Dug a canal part of the way through
The United States agreed to pay how much plus what a year for the Panama Canal zone
$10 million plus $250,000 a year
Western imperialism in the late 19 century was stimulated by all the following
And ongoing quest for markets, nationalistic pride and rivalries between powers, the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia, and an ongoing quest for raw material
John Fiske
Growth American political ideas, a book that stressed the superior character of Anglo-Saxon peoples and institutions
Samoans signed a treaty with United States, giving United States
Naval base on one of its islands
When Americans growth of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s
President Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii to the US
Return yellow journalism arose from the
Circulation or between to New York newspapers
The battleship Maine
Was the source of a battle cry in Spanish American war
As a result of the Spanish-American war, the US
Became a world power
During the Spanish-American war Theodore Roosevelt
Took part in the land in Cuba
In the Spanish American war
More American soldiers died from disease then battle
Stewart’s acquired all the following as a result of the Spanish-American war
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Guantánamo Bay
The open door policy
Proposed that foreign powers keep the china trade open to all nations on an equal basis
The Secretary of State your proclaimed the open door policy toward china was
John Hay
With the boxer rebellion, all the following occurred
Chinese nationals laid siege to foreign embassies, peking came under control with the arrival of foreign troops, Chinese nationalist rebelled against foreign involvement, a group of merged known as fists of righteous harmony
In 1896 theater Roosevelt campaign hard from William McKinley in the new president rewarded Roosevelt by pointing him
Assistant secretary of the Navy
When United States and Columbia could not agree on the price for the canals zone
The Columbian province of panama rebelled against Columbia
The French lost 20,000 men and spent $300 million
Attempting to build a canal and Panama
Who recommended will dig a big stick as a symbol of aggressive diplomacy
Theodore Roosevelt
The Roosevelt corollary
Stated that the United States would intervene in the affairs of the western hemisphere countries to Crystal intervention of other powers
Roosevelts intervention in the Russo Japanese war and the Moroccan dispute
100 Nobel Peace Prize in 1906
Who did Roosevelt send on a grand tour around the wrold
The U.S. Navy
Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote
Influence of Sea power upon history
