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Ch.23 test vocab soc
Question | Answer |
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protectorate | nation where independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country |
atrocity | act of cruelty and brutalty |
isolationism | nothing to do with political affairs |
expansionism | extending national boundaries |
annex | take over or add on |
imperalism | policy of powerful country's or regions |
William Howard Taft | president, dollar diplomacy |
Open Door Policy | the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries |
Rough Riders | nickname for a military unit organized by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War |
Roosevelt Corollary | statement by TR that the US had a right to intervene in Latin America to preserve law&order |
Buffalo Soldiers | African American members of the 9th and 10th cavalries, played a major role in the bloody victory |
moral diplomacy | Presiden Wilson's policy of condemning imperialism , spreading democracy and promoting peace |
dollar diplomacy | President Taft's policy of building strong economic ties to Latin America |
corollary | addition to an earlier stated principal |
George Goethals | army engineer, supervised the digging of the Panama Canal |
reconcentration | policy of moving large numbers of people into camps for political or military purposes |
William Gorgas | army physician who went to Panama to control the diseases |
Woodrow Wilson | president who started moral diplomacy |
Theodore Roosevelt | plan for the panama canal |