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CH 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the nation was ordained by God to expand across North American continent, had pretty much reached its continental limit. |
| A phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North America continent | Manifest Destiny |
| Understood that in embracing a national disposition towards aloofness, America could convey an impression of self-satisfied indifference to the rest of the world | John Quincy Adams |
| Who were actively involved in the quest for new territories? Fiercely competing for the ever-diminishing number of available spaces on the map | Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain |
| As old as human history, but it is also clear that its character and its potentialities had changed a great deal by the 19th century | Imperialism |
| Naval officer and strategic thinker whose 1890 classic "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" made the case that the possession of a powerful navy was essential to national prosperity and great-power status in the modern world. | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
| A committed expansionist had been advocating for a bigger navy, annexation of Hawaii, and more American involvement in the Caribbean Sea | Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts |
| Assistant secretary of the navy who was working for naval expansion | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Indian attorney who 1898 Senate campaign speech "The March of the Flag" expertly wove together all the elements - religious, strategic, humanitarian, commercial, national greatness - in the pro-imperial case | Albert Beveridge |
| Persuading the British Columbians to join their territory to the United States and came upon the Russian possibility which he seized on! Got it at a gargain for $7.2 million. Many scoffed calling it "Sewards Folly" but it was a farsighted choice | William Seward |
| citing "Manifest Destiny" and nothing growing Japanese interest in taking over the islands for themselves, decided to annex Hawaii by a joint resolution of Congress in 1898 | President William McKinley |
| He undertook to crush the rebellion by herding many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps where they could not give assistance to the armed insurrectos | Spanish general Butcher Weyler |
| Desperate. sought to drive out their Spanish overload by adopting a scorched-earth policy. They torched canefields and sugar mills and dynamited passenger trains. | Insurrectos |
| Their destructive tactics also menaced American interests on the island. American sympathies went out to the Cuban underdogs. American business had an investment stake of about $50 million in Cuba and an annual trade stake of about $100 million | Insurrectos |
| Sensationalistic coverage was given to the atrocities in CUba by the popular press of the time, particularly the dueling New York Journal and New York World, edited by.. aka "yellow journalism" | William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer |
| Managed to avoid being pushed into direct involvement, but when the Republican McKinley was elected in 1896, the tenor of American | Democratic President Grover Cleveland |
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