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Chapter 12 words
chapter 12 voc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries. |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
| Anglo Saxonism | The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense |
| Josiah Strong | Protestant religious leader; born in Napierville, |
| Matthew C. Perry | Commodore of the U.S. Navy |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaii’s last sovereign queen, born on September 2 in Honolulu. |
| James G. Blaine | a Representative and a Sen cock ator from Maine; born in West Brownsville |
| Pan Americanism | the idea of a single state including all of North and South America. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | American naval officer and historian |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years |
| William Randolph Hearst | American newspaper publisher who built up the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | American newspaper editor and publisher who helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. |
| Yellow Journalism | biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Spanish diplomat who is best known for a letter he penned to a Spanish official |
| Jingoism | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States; born in New York City, |
| George Dewey | officer of the U.S. Navy |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino leader who fought first against Spain and later against the United States for the independence of the Philippines. |
| Rough Riders | The 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment |
| Leonard Wood | Major General in the US Army. |
| Foraker Act | civil law that established a civilian government in Puerto Rico |
| Platt Amendment | treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention. |
| Sphere of Influence | A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation |
| Open Door Policy | statement of principles initiated by the United States (1899, 1900) for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity |
| Boxer Rebellion | Beginning in 1898, groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society |
| Great White Fleet | sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | an agreement by which Great Britain recognized the right of the United States to build a canal across Nicaragua or Panama |
| Dollar Diplomacy | to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending American commercial and financial interests there |
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