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Chapter 10 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaii's queen in 1893 |
| imperialism | the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Admiral of the U.S. Navy |
| William Seward | Secretary of state and early supporter of American expansion |
| Pearl Harbor | The kingdom's best port, located in Hawaii |
| Sanford B. Dole | Leader of the government who replaced Liliuokallani |
| Jose Marti | Cuban poet and journalist in exile in new york who started a revolution in 1895 |
| Valeriano Weyler | General sent to Cuba to restore order. |
| Yellow jouranism | Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure and enlarge readers. |
| U.S.S. Maine | Ship that blew up in the harbor of Havana on February 15, 1898. |
| George Dewey | gave the command to open fire on the spanish fleet at manila. |
| Rough Riders | a volunteer cavalry under command of Theodore Roosevelt |
| San Juan Hill | Strategically important infantry attack. |
| Treaty of Paris | touched off a great debate which centered on whether or not the U.S. had the right to annex the Philippines |
| Foraker Act | ended military rule and set up a civil government in the caribbean |
| Platt Amendment | one of the provisions that cuba was insisted to add which also made cuba a protectorate of the us. |
| protectorate | a countries whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | rebel leader of the Philippines |
| John Hay | U.S. secretary of state |
| Open Door Notes | a series of policy statements to leader of imperialist nations |
| Boxer rebellion | a riot in which the chinese patriots demanded that foreigners be expelled from the country |
| Panama Canal | a canal that allowed ships to pass through panama |
| Roosevelt Collary | added to the monroe doctrine that warned that disorder in latin america might force the us to the exercise of an international police power |
| dollar diplomacy | government policy to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by american businesspeople |
| Francisco "Dollar" Villa | rebel leader in mexico a fierce nationalist |
| Emiliano Zapata | rebel leader in mexico dedicated to land reform |
| John J. Pershing | general sent to capture villa dead or alive |
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