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chapter 12 vocab US
vocab cards for us history chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
| protectorate | 1. A state controlled and protected by another. |
| Anglo Saxonism | That American culture was the strongest and should spread. |
| Josiah Strong | Josiah Strong was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement that sought to apply Protestant religious principles to solve social ill. |
| Matthew C Perry. | Matthew Calbraith 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 |
| Queen Liluokalani | Liliuokalani, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliuokalani, and her married name was Kaolupoloni K. |
| James G. Blaine | James Gillespie Blaine was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State. He was nominated for president in 1884, but lost a close race to Democrat Grover Cleveland. |
| Pan Americanism | The principle or advocacy of political or commercial and cultural cooperation among all the countries of North and South America |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Alfred Thayer Mahan 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 | Henry Cabot Lodge was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian. While he did not claim the title, he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader. |
| William Randolph Hearst | William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.Obituary Variety, August 15, 1951. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | American newspaper editor and publisher who helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time he was one of the most powerful journalists in the United StatesYel |
| Yellow journalism | * Yellow journalism or the yellow press is 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 | Enrique Dupuy de Lôme was 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 | Extreme patriotism, esp. in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration; "Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'" (1858-1919) |
| George Dewey | Dewey: a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War that resisted American occupation. |
| Rough Riders | a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898) |
| Leonard Wood | commander of the rough riders |
| Foraker Act | The 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 (which us got from spanish american war) |
| Platt Adendment | The Platt Amendment of 1901 was a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act presented to the U.S. Senate by Connecticut Republican Senator Orville H. Platt (1827–1905) replacing the earlier Teller Amendment. |
| Sphere of influence | The area (literal or figurative) influenced by a country, person, etc |
| Open door policy | the policy of granting equal trade to all countries |
| Boxer Rebellion | * Began in 1898 and caught fire in 1899 and 1900. A Chinese organization known as the Boxers wanted to rid China of all foreign influences. Many Europeans and Chinese were killed. |
| Great white fleet | The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Hay pauncefote treaty | In 1901 this Treaty. This agreement nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across Central America, connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence |
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