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chapter 9 vocab
chapter 9 vocab ( 33 words)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. imperialism | political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories |
| 2. extractive economy | economy in the colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy |
| 3. Alfred T. Mahan | a military historian and an officer in the united states navy, played a key role in transforming America into a naval power |
| 4. Social Darwinism | the belief held by some in the late 19th century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them |
| 5. Frederick J. Turner | historian that noted that the frontier had been closed by gradual settlement in the 19th century |
| 6. Matthew Perry | a commodore that sailed a fleet on American warship into present-day Tokyo,Bay, Japan |
| 7. Queen Liliuokalani | a determined Hawaiian nationalist, who resented the increasing power of the white planters |
| 8. Jose' Marti | A Cuban patriot, who launched a war for independence from Spain |
| 9. William Randolph Hearst | newspaper publishers, who heightened the public`s dislike of the Spanish government |
| 10. Yellow Press | newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership |
| 11. jingoism | aggressive nationalism, |
| 12. George Dewey | a commodore, that steamed his squadron of vessels into Manila Bay, in the Spanish-held Philippines |
| 13. Emilio Aguinaldo | a Filipino Nationalists |
| 14. Rough Riders | a group of men, consisting of rigged westerners and upper class easterners who fought during the Spanish-American War |
| 15. Treaty of Paris | an agreement signed by the United States ans Spain in 1898, which officially ended the Spanish-American war |
| 16. insurrection | rebellion |
| 17. guerrilla warfare | form of non-traditional warfare generally involving hit-and-run attacks by small bands fighters |
| 18. William Howard Taft | future president of the United States. became governor of Philippines. Taft had a large ambitions for helping the islands recover form the rebellion |
| 19. sphere of Influence | a region dominated and controlled by an outside power |
| 20. John hay | U.S. secretary of state, issued the first of a series of notes to foreign diplomats in 1899 |
| 21. Boxer Rebellion | violence started by members of a secret society in China, which prompted the governments on Europe and America to send troops to squash the rebellion |
| 22. Open door Policy | American statement that the government did not want colonies in china, but favored free trade there |
| 23. Russo-Japanese War | a war between Japan and Russia in 1904 over the presence of Russian troops in Manchuria |
| 24. Gentlemen`s Agreement | pact between the United States and Japan to end segregation of Asian children in San Francisco public schools. In return, Japan agreed to limit the immigration of its citizens to the United States |
| 25. Great White Fleet | battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a "good will cruise" around the world |
| 26. Foraker Act | law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico |
| 27. Platt Amendment | set of conditions under which Cuba was Granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and Granting to the U.S. "rights to intervene" to preserve order in Cuba |
| 28. " big stick" diplomacy | Theodore Roosevelt`s policy of Creating and Using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America`s goals |
| 29. Panama Canal | human-made water-way linking the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of panama |
| 30. Roosevelt Corollary | president Theodore Roosevelt reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine to keep the Western Hemisphere free form intervention by European power |
| 31. dollar diplomacy | president Taft's policy of expanding American investments |
| 32. moral diplomacy | Woodrow Wilson`s statement that the U.S. would not use force to assert influence in the world, but instead work to promote human rights |
| 33. Francisco villa | 1916 vills was forced to cross in to new mexico and raieded the town to columbus, leaving 18 americans dead |
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