Term | Definition |
Queen Liliuokalani | Realized that her region in Hawaii had come to an end |
imperialism | The power of extending a nations authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means |
Alfred T. Mahan | One leader of the U.S Navy |
William Seward | Secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson |
Pearl Harbor | A refueling station for American ships |
Sanford B. Dole | Headed the government after the queen was overthrown |
Jose Marti | A Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York, launched a revolution in 1895 |
Valeriano Weyler | Was sent to Cuba to restore order |
Yellow Journalism | The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers |
U.S.S. Maine | A U.S. war ship the mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba |
George Dewey | Gave command to open fire of Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital |
Rough Riders | A volunteer cavalry regiment, commended by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, that served in the Spanish-American war |
San Juan Hill | Where an infantry attack was placed |
Treaty of Paris | The treaty ending the Spanish-American war, in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the islands of Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and sold the Philippines to the United States for $20 million |
Foraker Act | Legislation passed by congress in 1990, in which the U.S ended military rule in Puerto Rico and set up a civil government |
Platt Amendment | A series of provisions that the United States insisted Cuba add to its new constitution |
Portectorate | A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a strange power |
Emilio Aguinaldo | The rebel leader the believed that the United States had promised independence |
John Hay | U.S Secretary of state who issued a series of policy statements |
Open Door Notes | A message sent by John Hay to Germany, Russia, B=Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, asking the countries not to interfere with U.S trading rights in China |
Boxer Rebellion | A rebellion in which members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from western influences |
Panama Canal | An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
Roosevelt Corollary | An extension of the Monroe doctrine |
Dollar Diplomacy | The U.S. policy for using the nations economic power to exert influence over other countries |