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Ch 9 vocab 9/16/10
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imperialism | political, military, and economic domination of strong nations of weaker territories |
| extractive economy | economy in a colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy |
| Alfred T. Mahan | a military historian and officer in U.S. Navy was the key role in transforming U.S. into a naval power |
| Social Darwinism | belief that certain nations and races were superior over others and destined to rule over them |
| Frederick J Turner | historian who wrote "The Significant of the Frontier in American History" |
| Matthew Perry | commodore who in 1853 sailed a fleet of U.S. warships to present-day Tokyo Bay, Japan |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaiian nationalist who resented the increasing power of the white planters and abolished the constitution that gave political power to white minorities |
| Jose Marti | Cuban patriot who in 1895 launched a war for independence from Spain |
| William Randolph Hearst | rival of Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher who helped increase the public's dislike of Spanish government |
| Yellow Press | newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership |
| jingoism | aggressive nationalism |
| George Dewey | commodore who on 1898 steamed his squadron of vessels into Malina Bay, in the Spanish-help Philippines |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino nationalists leader who defeated Spanish Army |
| Rough Riders | group of men like rugged westerners and upper class easterners who fought during the Spanish-American War |
| Treaty of Paris | agreement signed by the U.S. and Spain in 1898 that ended the Spanish-American War |
| insurrection | to rebel |
| guerrilla warfare | non-traditional warfare generally hit-and-run attacks by small bands of fighters |
| William Howard Taft | 1901 became governor of the Philippines who helped island recover from rebellion (future president) |
| sphere of influence | a region dominated and controlled by an outside power |
| John Hay | U.S. Secretary of State who issued the first series of notes to foreign diplomats in 1899 |
| Boyer Rebellion | violence started by members of a secret society in China, prompted governments in Europe and U.S. to send troops to end rebellion |
| Open Door Policy | American statement that the government didn't want colonies in China, but favored free trade there |
| Russo-Japanese War | a war between Japan and Russia in 1904 over the presence of Russian troops in Manchuria |
| "Gentleman's Agreement" | pact between U.S. and Japan to end segregation of Asian children in U.S. schools. Japan agreed to limit the immigration of citizens to U.S. |
| Great White Fleet | battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a "good will cruise" around the world |
| Foraker Act | law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico |
| Platt Amendment | set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and having U.S. the "right to intervene" for Cuba's order |
| "big stick" diplomacy | Theodore Roosevelt's policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve U.S. goals |
| Panama Canal | human-made water way linking the Atlantic to the Pacific across Isthmus of Panama |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Theodore Roosevelt's reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine to keep the Western Hemisphere free from intervention by Europe |
| "dollar diplomacy" | President Taft's policy of expanding U.S. investments abroad |
| "moral diplomacy" | Woodrow Wilson's statement that U.S. won't force to assert influence in the world, but promote human rights |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa | leader of rebels who rose again when Carranza government was slow in bringing about reforms |
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