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Chapt. 10&11 Vocab

Chapter 10 and 11 vocab

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Imperialism The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations
Protectorate A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region.
Anglo Saxonism belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.”
Josiah Strong American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author
Matthew C. Perry Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
Queen Liliuokalani last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
James G. Blaine U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State
Pan Americanism the idea of a single state including all of North and South America.
Alfred T. Mahan United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.
Henry Cabot Lodge US statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian from Massachusetts
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
Joseph Pulitzer Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World
Yellow Journalism 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 Spanish ambassador to the United States
Jingoism "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War;
George Dewey United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
Emilio Aguinaldo Was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader.
Rough Riders name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer LCavalry
Leonard Wood was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines
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 had been newly acquired by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War.
Platt Amendment 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 area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence.
Open Door Policy concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country.
Boxer Rebellion was a proto-nationalist[1
Great White Fleet 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 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 term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft
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