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Chapter 10 vocab

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Queen Liliuokalani   Realized that her reign in Hawaii had come to an end in 1893.  
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Imperialism   The policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political,or military means.  
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Alfred T. Mahan   Admiral of the U.S Navy.  
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William Seward   an early supporter of American expansion.  
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Pearl Harbor   Hawaii's best port.  
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Sanford B. Dole   Set up a government headed by Sanford B. Doyle.  
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Jose Mrarti   A Cuban poet and journalist.  
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Valeriano Weyler   was sent to restore order.  
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Yellow Journalism   a style of writing, exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers.  
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U.S.S Maine   sent to Cuba to bring home american citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect american property.  
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George Dewey   Gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital.  
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Rough Riders   a volunteer Calvary under the command of Leonard Wood  
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San Juan Hill   Their victory cleared the way for an infantry attack on the strategically important San Juan hill.  
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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 Philippians to the united states for $20 million.  
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Foraker Act   legislation passed by congress in the 1900, in which 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, in 1901, U.S insisted Cuba add to its new constitution.  
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Protectorate   A country whose affair is controlled by a stronger power.  
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Emilio Aguinaldo   he lead a rebel that vowed to fought for their freedom.  
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John Hay   issued in 1899 a series of policy statements called the open door notes.  
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Open Door notes   Messages sent by secretary of state John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan asking the countries not to interfere with U.S trading with China.  
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Boxer Rebellion   a 1900 rebellion in which members of a Chinese secrete society sought to free their country from western influence.  
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Panama Canal   an artificial waterway cut through the isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened in 1914.  
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Roosevelt corollary   an extension of the Monroe doctrine, announced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 under which the united states claimed the right to protect the its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of the western Hemispheres nations.  
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dollar diplomacy   The U.S policy of using the nations economic power to exert influence over other countries.  
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa   Lead a rebellion in mexico with Emiliano Zapata  
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Emiliano Zapata   Lead a rebellion in mexico with Francisco Villa  
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John J. Pershing   Was sent to mexico to find Villa.  
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