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.
Yellow Journalism
type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
James G. Blaine
U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State
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.
Pan Americanism
the idea of a single state including all of North and South America.
Enrique Dupuy de Lome
Spanish ambassador to the United States
Alfred T. Mahan
United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.
Imperialism
The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations
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
Joseph Pulitzer
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World
