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Imperialism-Romeyn
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonization | The process by which a country/society gains control over another, primarily through settlement, usually a permanent relationship. Power: mother country controlling a smaller/weaker country. Mercantilism. Colonization people lack political/legal rights |
| Isolationism | A foreign policy perspective characterized by a desire to have the United States withdraw from the conflicts of the world and enjoy the protection of two vast oceans. |
| Manifest destiny | The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and had an irrefutable right and God-given responsibility to do so. |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1820 Declaration that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any further colonization or interference by European powers. In exchange pledged U.S. would not become involved in European struggles. |
| Hawaii: Queen Liliuokalani | last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, annex because Spanish-American war as a |
| Sanford Dole | led uprising of United States annexing Hawaii for lower price of fruit goods |
| Annexation | Joining together, claim foreign territory, i.e. Philippines. We oversee their affairs, control their land/economy, but they are not Americans |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | Navy flag officer |
| Samoa Crisis (Pago Pago) | confrontation between the United States, Germany, and Great Britain from 1887-1889 over control of the Samoan Islands; Germany backs down, US gains control of Pago Pago |
| Sphere of Influence | Area/region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. By 1890, most European power had “carved up” Asia, S. America, and the Caribbean. U.S. is late to the party and wants a piece of the pie. |
| Boxer Uprising | pro-nationalist movement in China, response to Open Door Policy |
| Open Door Policy | foreign affairs that allowed multiple Imperial powers to access China with no control of china |
| Venezuelan Boundary Dispute | dispute with Great Britain over Guayana Esequiba (part of British Guiana), we get land, Britain has Boar war going |
| “Banana Republic” | politically unstable country dependent upon limited agriculture |
| Secretary of State John Hay | Adaption of an Open Door Policy in China (may of led to Boxers Rebellion) |
| Guerrilla War | irregular warfare, ambushes and raids |
| Valeriano Weyler | 1st Duke of Rubí and 1st Marquis of Tenerife |
| “Yellow journalism” | journalism that is crude and exaggerated, propaganda, used in Spanish-American war to convince Americans to support the war, It sells papers |
| William Randolph Hearst | U.S. newspaper publisher |
| Joseph Pulitzer | U.S. newspaper publisher and editor, born in Hungary |
| The Maine | U.S. Navy’s 2nd commissioned battleship, armored cruiser, had been sent to Havana, Cuba to protect U.S. interests during Cuban revolt against Spain, disappeared and still do not know what happened, was going to evacuate Americans |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President, successfully engineered U.S. bid to build Panama Canal |
| African American Rough Riders | |
| Treaty of Paris | Ceded Canada and all North American claims east of the Mississippi River to Britain, but not New Orleans; Guam, Puerto Rico |
| Admiral George Dewey and Manila Bay | Dewey: U.S. naval officer Manila Bay: 1898, during Spanish-American War |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino general, politician, and independence leader; first Philippines’ President |
| Josiah Strong “Our Country” | |
| William Jennings Bryan | |
| Wilson-Gorman Tariff | |
| “Butcher” Weyler- | |
| Depuy De Lome | letter intercepted that said did not have intentions of helping Cuban |
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