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
