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chapter 12 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | The policy of extending a nation's authority by gaining land or by the establishment of economic and political rights over other nations. |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
| Anglo Saxonism | a belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.” |
| Josiah Strong | Josiah Strong was one of America's leading religious and social voices during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| Matthew C. Perry | Matthew C. Perry was a military commodore that fought in many wars |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She felt her mission was to preserve the islands for their native residents. In 1898, Hawaii was annexed to the United States and was forced to give up her throne. |
| James G. Blaine | James G. Blane was a republican who served as parts of congress and speaker of the house |
| Pan Americanism | the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the driving force in American foreign policy in the early 20th century |
| William Randolph Hearst | a American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a farmer who eventually became a journalist against the goverment |
| yellow jornalism |