| Question | Answer |
| Queen Liliuokalani | last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi |
| Alfred T. Mahan | United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century. |
| 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. |
| Anglo Saxonism | belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.” |
| Rough Riders | name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer LCavalry |
| 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. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. |
| Pan Americanism | the idea of a single state including all of North and South America. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World |
| 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. |
| Imperialism | The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations |
| Boxer Rebellion | was a proto-nationalist[1 |
| 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 |
| Sphere of Influence | area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. |
| George Dewey | United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War |
| James G. Blaine | U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State |
| William Randolph Hearst | was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher. |
| 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 |
| Protectorate | A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region. |
| Yellow Journalism | type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. |
| Jingoism | "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy |
| 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 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | US statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian from Massachusetts |
| Josiah Strong | American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author |
| Dollar Diplomacy | term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | Spanish ambassador to the United States |
| 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. |
