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Chapter9
33 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imperialism | political ,military , and economic domination of strong nations over 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 | Military officer who influenced America greatly in transforming into a naval power.Called upon a modern fleet, and foreign bases where American ships could refuel. |
| Social Darwinism | the belief in 19th c that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destinedto rule over them |
| Frederick J. Turner | wrote about the significance of the frontier. |
| Matthew Perry | Sailed a fleet of war ships into Tokyo, Japan and negotiated a treaty that opened trade with Japan. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | resented the increasing power of the white pllanters who owned much of the Hawaiin land. She abolished the constitution that had givern them political poer to the white minority |
| Jose Marti | launched a war for indepence from Spain |
| William Randolph Hearst | heightened the public's dislike of the Spanish government |
| Yellow Press | Pulitzer and Hearst's publications that featured a popular comic strip called The Yellow Kid |
| jingoism | aggressive nationalism |
| George Dewey | destroyed Spanish force in Manila Bay, Philippines with his squadron of vessels |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino nationalist leader who was fighting for freedom from Spain and defeating the Spanish army |
| Rough Riders | rugged westerners and upper class-esterners who relished what Roosevelt called the "strenuous life" |
| Treaty of Paris | Officially ended the war. Spain gave up Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam. It sold the Philipines to the US for $20 million |
| insurrection | rebellion |
| guerrilla warfare | form of non-traditional warfare involing hit and run attacks by small bands of fighters |
| William Howard Taft | Governor of the Philippines who had ambitions for helping the islands recover from the rebellion.He censored the press and placed dissidents in jail to maintain order.He extended limited self rule and ordered the construction of schools,roads,and bridges |
| sphere of influence | region dominated and controlled by an outside power |
| John Hay | issued the 1st series of notes to foreign diplomats in 1899. He notified the leaders of imperialist nations that the US expected "perfect equality of treatment for commerce" in China |
| Boxer Rebellion | violence started by a secret soceity in China, which promted the governments of US and Europe to send troops to squash the rebellion |
| Open Door Policy | US statement that the gov didn't want colonis in China but it did favor free trade there |
| Russo-Japanese War | war between Japan and Russia in 1904 over the presence of Russian troops in Manchuria |
| "Gentlemen's Agreement" | pact between the US and Japan to end segregation of Asians in San Francisco public schools. Japan agreed to limit the immigration of its citizens to the US |
| Great White Fleet | battleshipssent 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 sonditions in which Cuba was granted independence in 1902.It restrincted Cuban's rights and US "right to intervene" to preserve order. |
| "big stick" diplomacy | Roosevelt's policy of creating and using a strong military to acheive America's goals |
| Panama Canal | human made waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine to keep the Western Hemisphere free from European intervention |
| "dollar diplomacy" | Taft's policy of expanding American investments abroad |
| "moral diplomacy" | Wilson's statement that US wouldn't use force to assert influence in the world. Instead work to promote human rights |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa | rebel leader who attacked Colombus, New Mexico killing 18 Americans. He was chased fo 11 months in spite of Mexican government opposition |
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