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Imperialism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | the act of acquiring territory outside your borders; encouraged by the desire to acquire raw materials and markets, the need to expand our naval power, and to spread our culturef |
| Alaska | "Seward's Folly" was purchased from Russia |
| Hawaii | acquired after American planters encouraged the U.S. to send the Marines |
| Spanish-American War 1898 | Mckinley was president; started with the sinking of the Maine ship; American soldiers were sent to the Spanish colony of Cuba |
| yellow journalism | sensational newspaper stories that encouraged the U.S. to go to war with Spain; aimed at selling papers by exaggerating the sufferings of Cubans under Spanish rule |
| the Rough Riders | Teddy Roosevelt's famous cavalry unit that charged up San Juan Hill |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Teddy's policy of maintaining law and order in the Western Hemisphere = The Big Stick Diplomacy |
| The Big Stick Diplomacy | expanded our military presence in Latin America ; the U.S. had the right to intervene if a nation had trouble paying its debts |
| Panama Canal | constructed by Roosevelt to connect the Atlantic and Pacific for trade and naval reasons = completed by Wilson in 1914 |
| Open Door Policy | opened up China to equal trade opportunities for ALL nations |
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