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| Imperialism | is the economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations
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| Protectorates | the imperial power allowed the local rulers to stay in control and protected them against rebellions and invasion
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| anglo-saxonism | John Fiske, argued that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government, and were destined to dominate the planet.
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| McKinley Tariff | eliminated all duties on sugar, also gave subsidies to sugar producers in the U.S.
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| Commercial Bureau of American Republics | an organization that worked to promote cooperation among the nations of the Western Hemisphere
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| Organization of American States | Commercial Bureau of American Republics was later known as the Pan-American Union and is today called the Organization of American States
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| Yellow journalism | writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers
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| Reconcentration camps | Valeriano Weyler set these up to slaughter the people in the Philipines and other areas.
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| Spanish-American War | Cuba's struggle to gain independence from Spain led to the U.S. going to war with Spain
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| USS Maine | was blown up and sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba. The incident killed over 250 soldiers and was a cause of the war with Spain.
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| Jingoism | an attitude of aggressive nationalism
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| Rough Riders | were a flamboyant mix of cowboys, miners, and law officers
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| Buffalo Soldiers | were African American soldiers who fought for the U.S.
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| White Man's Burden | was a poem and the poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the name of the poem as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.
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| Imperialists/Anti-Imperialists | people for or against the imperialism movement for the U.S.
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| Treaty of Paris | Signed on December 10, 1898, the U.S. and Spain agreed that Cuba would become an independent country, and the U.S. would acquire P.R. and Guam. The U.S. agreed to pay Spain 20 million for the Phillipines.
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| Foraker Act | made P.R. an unincorporated territory
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| Platt Amendment | an amendment that stated several things the United States wanted Cuba to agree to and if they didn't they wouldn't get rid of their military government of the island.
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| Monroe Doctrine | stated that European powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent states of the Americas.
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| Unincorporated territory | an area under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress has determined that only select parts of the U.S. Constitution apply
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| Sphere of influence | an area where a foreign nation controlled economic development such as railroad construction and mining
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| Open Door Policy | in which all countries should be allowed to trade with china
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| Boxer Rebellion | group members besieged foreign embassies in Beijing, killing more than 200 foreigners and taking others prisoner
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| Great White Fleet | in 1907 President Roosevelt sent 16 battleships of the new U.S. Navy which was known as this. It went on a voyage around the world to showcase the nation's military might
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| Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | in 1901, the U.S. and G.B. signed this which gave the U.S. the exclusive right to build and control any proposed canal through Central America.
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| Panama Canal | built by the U.S. for an easier passage to the Pacific.
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| "Big-stick" policy | Policy named by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt to describe the assertion of U.S. dominance as a moral imperative.
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| Roosevelt Corollary | in this statement, Roosevelt said that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere.
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| Dollar Diplomacy | placed much less emphasis on military force and more on helping Latin American industry
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