APUSH 2014/2015
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| Alfred Thayer Mahan | argued in "Influence of Sea Power Upon History" that sea control leads to world dominance; led to imperialist sentiment
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| James G. Blaine | published the "big sister policy", which aimed to rally Latin American countries behind American leadership and open Latin American trade markets
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| Richard Olney | Cleveland's secretary of state; claimed that Britain would violate the Monroe Doctrine if it claimed Venezuela
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| Valeriano Weyler | Spanish general in Cuba who herded many civilians into concentration camps
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| Dupuy de Lomé | Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a letter in which he called President McKinley weak and bitter; played up by Hearst using yellow journalism
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| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president; hero of the Spanish-American war; built the Panama Canal during his administration; carried the "big stick"
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| George Dewey | US naval officer who is remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish American War; led the American attack on the Philippines
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| Emilio Aguinaldo | led the Filipino push for independence
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| reconcentration | policy of moving Cubans to detention camps so they could not aid rebels
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| jingoism | extreme patriotism, often favoring aggressive foreign policy
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| imperialism | a policy in which a nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically
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| Pan-American Conference | an international organization that dealt with trade; organized by James G. Blaine to encourage trust and cooperation within the manufacturers
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| Maine | an American ship that blew up in a Havana port in 1898; after this incident war with Spain became imminent
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| Teller Amendment | proclaimed that the US would give Cubans freedom when it overthrew Spanish misrule
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| Rough Riders | volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American war
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| Treaty of Paris | 1898; concluded the Spanish-American War; America got Guam, Puerto Rico, and paid $20 mil for the Philippines; Cuba was freed from Spain
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| Anti-Imperialist League | objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire
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| Foraker Act | 1900; Congress agreed to give Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government
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| insular cases | 1901; the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution did not extend to the Philippines and Puerto Rico
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| Platt Amendment | amendment to the Cuban Constitution that authorized US intervention in Cuba to protect its interests; Cuba pledged not to make treaties with other countries that might compromise its independence and it granted naval bases to the US
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