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Chapter 10 vocab.

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Queen Liliuokalani   Realized that her region in Hawaii had come to an end  
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imperialism   The power of extending a nations authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means  
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Alfred T. Mahan   One leader of the U.S Navy  
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William Seward   Secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson  
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Pearl Harbor   A refueling station for American ships  
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Sanford B. Dole   Headed the government after the queen was overthrown  
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Jose Marti   A Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York, launched a revolution in 1895  
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Valeriano Weyler   Was sent to Cuba to restore order  
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Yellow Journalism   The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers  
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U.S.S. Maine   A U.S. war ship the mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba  
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George Dewey   Gave command to open fire of Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital  
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Rough Riders   A volunteer cavalry regiment, commended by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, that served in the Spanish-American war  
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San Juan Hill   Where an infantry attack was placed  
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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  
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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  
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Platt Amendment   A series of provisions that the United States insisted Cuba add to its new constitution  
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Portectorate   A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a strange power  
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Emilio Aguinaldo   The rebel leader the believed that the United States had promised independence  
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John Hay   U.S Secretary of state who issued a series of policy statements  
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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  
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Boxer Rebellion   A rebellion in which members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from western influences  
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Panama Canal   An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans  
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Roosevelt Corollary   An extension of the Monroe doctrine  
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Dollar Diplomacy   The U.S. policy for using the nations economic power to exert influence over other countries  
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