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IMperialism
Age of Imperialism
Question | Answer |
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Written by the Spanish minister in Washington calling McKinley weak and bitter; was used by yellow journalists as an excuse to go to war with Spain | De Lome Letter |
Used as a pretext for declaring war on Spain | The Maine |
Ended the Spanish-American War in 1898 and gained for the US Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines | Treaty of Paris |
Groups that opposed American expansionism and annexation of foreign territories | Anti-Imperialist League |
Stated that the United States had no intention of annexing Cuba | Teller Amendment |
Passed as part of an Appropriations Bill in 1901, it specified the conditions under which the US could intervene in Cuba's internal affairs; later incorporated into the Cuban constitution | Platt Amendment |
Region in which political and economic control is exerted by an European nation to the exclusion of all others | Spheres of Influence |
Secret Chinese society that opposed foreigners and laid siege to foreign embassies in Beijing in 1900 | Boxers |
1850 treaty between the US and Great Britain saying that neither country would try to obtain exclusive rights to a canal across the Isthmus of Panama | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty |
Agreement in which Great Britain in 1901 recognized the US Sphere of Influence over the Panama Canal zone | Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
1903 treaty in which the US guaranteed the independence of the newly-created Republic of Panama | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
The US in 1902 invoked the Monroe Doctrine to get England, Germany and Italy to back off trying to collect payments on debts | Venezuelan Crisis |
Stated that the US had the right to exercise international police power in the Western Hemisphere and intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations | Roosevelt Corollary |
Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Prize by negotiating this to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 | Treaty of Portsmouth |
Informal treaty in which the Japanese in 1907 said they would stop Japanese immigration to the US | Gentleman's Agreement |
Understanding in 1908 in which both Japan and the US agreed to respect each other's territories in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door policy in China | Root-Takahira Agreement |
US policy of promoting and safeguarding American business investments and bank loans in Latin America by using US troops if necessary | Dollar Diplomacy |
Established a civil government in Puerto Rico, organizing the island as a US territory in 1900 | Foraker Act |
Extreme nationalism, often to the point of belligerency | Jingoism |