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Chp 12. vocab
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | n. The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. |
| Protectorate | A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region. |
| Anglo Saxonism | Characteristics leading to the Anglo Saxons race. culture |
| Josiah Strong | Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was one of America's leading religious and social voices during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| Matthew C. Perry | (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. •In 1837, Perry supervised the construction of first naval steamship, Fulton |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Queen Lili'uokalani was the queen of the Hawaiian Islands from 1891 until 1893, when she was deposed by those who sought annexation to the United States |
| James G. Blaine | U.S. politician and diplomat. He moved to Maine in 1854 to become editor of the Kennebec Journal, a crusading Republican newspaper. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863 – 76), becoming speaker in 1868 |
| Pan Americanism | is a movement which, through diplomatic, political, economic and social means, seeks to create, encourage and organize relationships, associations and cooperation between the states of the Americas in common interests. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, Republican politician, and noted historian from Massachusetts |
| William Randolph Hearst | April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher |
| Joseph Pulitzer | April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" became a leading national figure in the Democratic party |
| Yellow Journalism | a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | a Spanish ambassador to the United States. Through the so-called De Lôme Letter, he defamed U.S. President William McKinley, an act which eventually contributed to the Spanish-American War. |
| Jingoism | defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement. |
| George Dewey | an admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. |
| Rough Riders | is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. |
| Leonard Wood | was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines. |
| Foraker Act | is a United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico, which had been newly acquired by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War. |
| Platt Amendment | was a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act presented to the U.S. Senate by Connecticut Republican Senator Orville H. Platt replacing the earlier Teller Amendment. |
| Sphere of influence | an area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. |
| Open Door Policy | a concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country. |
| Boxer Rebellion | also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist. |
| Great White Fleet | was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet. |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | The United States and the United Kingdom signed it in 1901. The Treaty nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across the Central American isthmus to connect the Pacific Oc. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | the term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
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