Term | Definition |
1. Imperialism | The policy by which strong nations extended heir political, military, and economic control over weaker territories |
2. Extractive Economy | Economy in a colony where the colonizing removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit it's own economy |
3. Social Darwinism | The belief that life consists if competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive |
4. Yellow Press | Newspaper that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership |
5. Jingoism | Aggressive nationalism |
6. Rough Riders | Group of men consisting of rugged westerns and upper class easterners who fought during the Spanish - American war |
7. Treaty of Paris | An agreement signed by the unite states and Spain in 1898 which officially ended the Spanish American war |
8. Insurrection | Rebellion against U.S. rule |
9. Guerrilla Warfare | A from of non-traditional warfare generally involving small bands of fighters to attack behind American lines |
10. Sphere of Influence | A region dominated and controlled by an outside power |
11. Boxer Rebellion | Violence started by members of a secret society in china which promoted the governments of Europe an america to send troops to squash the rebellion |
12. Open Door Policy | American statement that the government did not want colonies in china but favored free trade there |
13. Russo - Japanese War | A war between Japan and Russia in 1904 over the presence on Russian troops in Manchuria |
14. "Gentlemen's Agreement" | Pact between the United States and Japan to end segregation of Asian children in San Francisco public schools. In return Japan agreed to limit the immigration of its citizens to the u.s |
15. Great White Fleet | Battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a "good will cruise" around the world |
16. Foraker Act | Established a civil government in Puerto Rico |
17. Platt Amendment | Set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902 including restrictions in rights of Cubans and granting to the u.s. the "right to intervene" to preserve order in Cuba |
18. "Big Stick" Diplomacy | Broader policy for u.s. action in Latin America |
19. Panama Canal | Human-made waterway linking the Atlantic to the pacific across the isthmus of panama |
20. Roosevelt Corollary | President Theodore Roosevelt's reassertion of the Monroe doctrine to keep te Western Hemisphere free from intervention by European powers |
21. "Dollar Diplomacy" | President Taft's policy of expanding American investments aboard |
22. "Moral Diplomacy" | Woodrow Wilson's statement that the u.s. would not use force to assert influences in the world but would instead work to promote human rights |