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Ch. 12 Vocab J
Chapter 12 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | An imperial goverment.... Extending imerial control |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
| Anglo Saxonism | an English person of the period before the Norman Conquest. |
| Josiah Strong | American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement |
| Matthew C. Perry | commander of the United States naval forces in the China seas |
| Queen Liliuokalani | the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. |
| James G. Blaine | a Representative and a Senator from Maine |
| Pan Americanism | movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Influence of Seapower upon History." His work details the key relationship between overseas trade and world power |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | American statesman, Republican politician, and noted historian from Massachusetts |
| William Randolph Hearst | American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 |
| Joseph Pultizer | Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes |
| Yellow Journalism | yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines |
| Enrique dupuy de Lome | Spanish ambassador to the United States |
| Jingoism | extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States |
| George Dewey | admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. |
| Rough Riders | name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War |
| Leonard Wood | In 1895, he was the White House Physician to President Grover Cleveland. He began his long friendship with Theodore Roosevelt during his years in Washington. During the Spanish-American War he was the commander of the First Volunteer Cavalry |
| Foraker Act | officially the Organic Act of 1900, is a United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico |
| Platt Amendment | Rider appended to a U.S. Army appropriations bill stipulating conditions for withdrawing of U.S. |
| Sphere of Influence | A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one. |
| Open Door policy | was the policy advocated by the United States that all countries should have equal access to trade with the Chinese Empire |
| Boxer Rebellion | a group known as the Boxers murdered thousands of foreigners, especially missionaries, in an attempt to rid China of all foreign influence. |
| Great White Fleet | Theodore Roosevelt sent to tour the World from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | Superseding the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 set out U.S. and British interests in connection to a canal through Central America. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | A policy aimed at furthering the interests of the United States abroad by encouraging the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries. |
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