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Chapter12 Vocabulery
chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls |
| Anglo Saxonism | a word or idiom that srtongly suggests Anglo-Saxon origin |
| Josiah Strong | one of America's leading religious and social voices during the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Matthew C. Perry | began the western trade with Japan |
| Queen Liliukalani | last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands |
| James G. Blaine | chairman of the republican state party, leader of the Halfbreeds, big politician, good speaker |
| Pan Americanism | movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America |
| Alfred T. Mahan | believed the key to a great nation rested on a powerful army, attributed the development of the British Empire to correct use of the sea power |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | republic politician, spoke about how good owning Cuba would be |
| William Randolph Hearst | journalist, practitioner of yellow journalism, |
| Joseph Pulitzer | newspaper publisher and politician and journalist |
| Yellow Journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers |
| Enrigue Dupuy de Lome | wrote a letter to President Mckinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd |
| Jingoism | an appeal intended to arouse patrotic emotion |
| Theodore Roosevelt | became president after Mckinley's assassination, hero in the Spanish-American War |
| George Aguinaldo | he sailed from Hong Kong to the Philipines to defeat the Spanish fleet |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | philipine independence leader; consolidated a strong nationalist movement against Spain during the Spanish-American War |
| Rough Riders | a member of the First US Volunteer Calvary regiment under Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War |
| Leonard Wood | along with Roosevelt, he commanded and recruited the rouht riders during the Spanish-American War |
| Foraker Act | set up Puerto Rico's government, annexed from spain; provided that trhe executive department was to be composed of eleven members appointed by the president of the US |
| Platt Amendment | affected Cuban's rights to negotiate treaties and permitted the US to maintain naval base at Guantanamo Bay to intervene in Cuban affairs "for the preservation of Cuban independence." |
| Sphere of Influence | a territorial area over which political or economical influence is wielded by one nation |
| Open Door Policy | statement of the US foreign policy towards china; it affirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any chinese port open to trade |
| Boxer Rebellion | opposing foreign inperialism and Christianity |
| Great White Fleet | nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe |
| Hay Paunecfute Treaty | provided for a joint protectorate by England and the United States of any trans-isthmian canal; permitted the construction and maintenance of a canal under the sole auspices of the United States |
| 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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