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7-3.7 Burnette
Causes and Effects of the Spanish-American War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Spanish-American War | the 1898 war between the U.S. and Spain, at first over Cuba, after which the U.S. became a world power |
| Imperialist interests | when a country desires to take over or control another country or people to gain access to its (their) natural resources and trade |
| acquisitions | things which someone or a country gains possession or control of |
| military occupations | when a nation uses its army to control another nation or people without their consent (agreement) |
| Emerging world power | when a nation begins to be strong or powerful enough to influence or change the course of world events |
| Monroe Doctrine | In 1823, U.S. President James Monroe issued this policy, which stated that the Americas were off limits to further European colonization |
| emancipation | being freed from unwanted influence, control, or restraint |
| Jose Marti | In 1895, he launched the second attempt for Cuban independence |
| Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine | The 1898 event in Havana harbor, which the Americans wrongly attributed to a Spanish mine, led to the American declaration of war against Spain in the Spanish-American War |
| sensational | interesting, exaggerated, or lurid |
| "Yellow Journalism" | when newspapers wrote sensational stories and encouraged war in order to sell more newspapers |
| Philippine Islands | a group of over 7,000 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, which had long been a colony of Spain, and which the U.S. took over as a result of the Spanish-American War |
| two-front or two ocean war | a war fought in two places that are very far or distinct from each other, or fought in two separate oceans |
| Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico | Following the Spanish-American war, the United States gained these territories |
| Guantanamo Bay | this territory in Cuba was leased by the United States after the Spanish-American War in order to establish a major naval base on the island |
| Filipinos | people from the Philippines |
| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt issued this policy which declared the United States was an international police power in the Western Hemisphere with justification to intervene in Latin America |
| International police power | when a nation assumes the right and authority to intervene in the affairs of another country or to resolve conflicts among other countries |
| Western hemisphere | the western half of the world; typically used to refer to North and South America |
| Intervene | to take over and fix things |
| Latin America | the areas of the Americas whose official languages are Spanish or Portuguese, to include Central America, Mexico, parts of the Caribbean, and almost all of South America |
| Great White Fleet | The squadron of American battleships that President Teddy Roosevelt sent around the world to show off American power |
| Panama Canal | a man-made ship channel in Panama which connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and which made it no longer necessary to sail around the tip of South America to sail from the east to west coasts of the U.S. |
| supremacy | having so much power or authority that one cannot be effectively challenged |
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