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Amer. Hist. Ch. 18
American History Chapter 18 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sensational style of writing that exaggerates news | Yellow journalism |
| who did the deLome letter criticize? | McKinley |
| Which nation's residents became US citizens in 1917 | Puerto Rico |
| Which nation attempted to achieve its independence by going to war against the US | Philippines |
| Which nation did the Platt Amendment make a US protectorate | Cuba |
| To which nation did the treaty of Paris guarantee independence from Spain | Cuba |
| In which nation did the boxer rebellion take place | China |
| This tern refers to the policy of denying recognition of Latin American governments | Missionary diplomacy |
| This term means the policy of using US governments to guarantee loan mad to foreign countries | dollar diplomacy |
| the Mexican leader US troops were trying to catch | Pancho Villa |
| This was one of the worlds greatest engineering feats | Panama Canal |
| He led American troops into Mexico in pursuit of a Mexican leader | John J Pershing |
| This general forced Cubans to relocate to concentration camps | Valeriano Weyler |
| This nation gained independence after the Spanish American War | Cuba |
| Battleship destroyed in Havana harbor | USS Maine |
| The Cuban poet and journalist who launched a Cuban revolution in 1895 | Jose Marti |
| After the Spanish American war, the US paid $20 million to annex this land | Philippines |
| Head of the provisional government in Hawaii in 1893 | Sanford B Dole |
| The tariff that caused a crisis by threatening Hawaiian sugar growers | MxKinley tariff of 1890 |
| President who formally recognizes the republic of Hawaii | Cleveland |
| What war was ended by the treaty of Paris 1898 | Spanish-American |
| The president who favored annexation of Hawaii when he took over the presidency from Cleveland | McKinley |
| Which country failed to complete the Panama Canal | France |
| Who proclaimed Hawaii a territory in 1898 | Congress |
| During his presidency the US and Mexico came close to war | Woodrow Wilson |
| For which action did Teddy Roosevelt receive a Nobel peace prize | Treaty of Portsmuth |
| Which nation did Emilio Aguinaldo fight | Philippines |
| Teddy Roosevelt was proclaimed a hero of this battle | San Juan Hill |
| The US president most associated with the dollar diplomacy | Taft |
| Which nation was the focus of John Hay's Open Door notes | China |
| Why was there a need for a canal | faster route around the Americas |
| The construction of the Panama canal to how many years | 10 |
| The letter that criticizes President McKinley | deLome letter |
| This was also know as "the big stick diplomacy" | Monroe doctrine |
| Queen of Hawaii | Liluokalani |
| US navy admiral that urges the US to build up their Navy | Alfred T Mahan |
| Teddy Roosevelt s famous cavalry unit that fought in the Spanish - American war | Rough riders |
| King of Hawaii | Kalakaua |
| Naval base in Hawaii | Pearl Harbor |
| naval hero of the Spanish American war | George Dewey |