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Pogue Ch12 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
| Protectorate | A state controlled and protected by another |
| Anglo Saxonism | Where Americans thought that they were culturally superior |
| Josiah Strong | an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. One of the founders of the Social Gospel movement that sought to apply Protestant religious principles to solve the social ills brought on by industrialization, urbanization and immigration |
| Matthew C. Perry | the Admiral of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 |
| Queen Liliuokalani | the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was the Queen during the revolution. |
| James G. Blaine | 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 | An officer in the U.S navy who taught at the navy war college |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | A powerful senator who pushed for the construction of a new navy |
| William Randolph Hearst | Wrote "The Journal" |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Wrote the world |
| Yellow Journalism | The kind of sensational reporting, in which writers oftern exaggerated or even made up stories |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | He was a spanish ambassador the the U.S |
| Jingoism | Extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreigh policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | He was the 26th president |
| George Dewey | He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | He was a philipino general and leader and an idependence fighter |
| Rough Riders | The name bestowed on the first united states volunteer cavalry |
| Leonard Wood | He was a physician who served as the chief of staff at the U.S army |
| Foraker Act | The U.S federal law which established the governing structure for the island of Puerto Rico |
| Platt Amendment | It was a treaty betwee the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba Independence |
| Sphere of Influence | A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation. |
| Open Door Policy | Statement of U.S. foreign policy toward China. All countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade. (1899) |
| Boxer Rebellion | Officially supported peasant uprising in 1900 in China that attempted to drive all foreigners from the country. |
| Great White Fleet | US Navy fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907-February 22,1909 by order of President Roosevelt. |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | Gave the US the exclusive right to build and control any proposed canal through central America. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | The United States 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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