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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. |
| Protectorate | the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls. |
| Anglo Saxonism | A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue |
| 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 | Matthew Calbraith Perry is remembered as the man who opened Japan to American trade and influence in the 19th century. |
| Queeen Liliuokalani | queen of hawaii |
| james G. Blaine | James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
| Pan Americanism | Pan-Americanism is a movement which, through diplomatic, political, economic and social means, seeks to create, encourage and organize relationships |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Alfred Thayer Mahan (United States naval officer) |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Henry Cabot "Slim" Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, Republican politician |
| William Randolph Hearst | William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hunggarian-American newspaper publisher of the St.Louis Post dispatch and the New York World |
| 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 |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Enrique Dupuy de Lôme (1816-1885) was a Spanish diplomat who is best known for a letter he penned to a Spanish official in Cuba in 1898 |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States |
| George Dewey | was am admiral of the u.s. navy |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | was a filipino general ,politician, and independence leader |
| Rough Riders | 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry |
| Leonard Wood | physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba |
| Foraker Act | United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto |
| Platt Amendment | was a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act presented to the U.S. Senate |
| Sphere of Influence | A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation. |
| Open door policy | An open door policy guarantees that employees can go above their boss to seek assistance from the boss's supervisor |
| Boxer Rebellion | Members of the secret society practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals (hence the nickname, the "Boxers") which they believed would make them impervious to bullets. |
| Great White Fleet | popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 |
| Hay Pauncefote Treaty | an agreement (1901) between the U.S. and Great Britain giving the U.S. the sole right to build a canal across Central America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | A policy aimed at furthering the interests of the United States abroad by encouraging the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries. |
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