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chapt. 10 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| queen Liliuokalani | Hawaii's queen |
| imperialism | the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories |
| Alfred T. Mahan | leader of the U.S navy |
| William Seward | supporter or American expansion, Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson |
| Pearl Harbor | naval base, the kingdoms best port |
| Sanford B. Dole | Hawaii overthrew the queen and set up a government headed by this woman |
| Jose Marti | a Cuban poet and journalist in exile New York, launched a revolution in 1895 |
| Valeriano Weyler | Spain General |
| yellow journalism | The sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers |
| U.S.S. Maine | ordered to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect American property |
| George Dewey | Commodore |
| Rough Riders | a volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt |
| San Juan Hill | in the Caribbean where they won |
| Treaty of Paris | touched off a great debate in The United States. whether or not the United States had the right to annex the Philippines |
| Foraker Act | ended in Military rule and set up a civil government |
| Platt Amendment | several provisions |
| Pretectorate | a Country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Philippines rebel leader, believed that the U.S had promised independence |
| John Hay | U.S secretary of state issued the Open Door notes |
| Open Door notes | letters addressed to the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations share their trading rights with the United States, thus creating an open door |
| Boxer Rebellion | thousands of Chinese people died during the fighting |
| Panama Canal | canal in Panama |
| Roosevelt Corollary | added to the Monroe Doctrine. disorder in Latin America might "force the United States... to the exercise of an international police power." |
| dollar diplomacy | using the U.S government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American businesspeople |
| Francisco 'Pancho" Villa | Rebel leader of Mexico |
| Emiliano Zapata | Rebel leader of Mexico |
| John J. Perishing | Brigadier General |
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