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American History Chapter 18 vocab

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Sensational style of writing that exaggerates news   Yellow journalism  
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who did the deLome letter criticize?   McKinley  
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Which nation's residents became US citizens in 1917   Puerto Rico  
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Which nation attempted to achieve its independence by going to war against the US   Philippines  
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Which nation did the Platt Amendment make a US protectorate   Cuba  
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To which nation did the treaty of Paris guarantee independence from Spain   Cuba  
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In which nation did the boxer rebellion take place   China  
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This tern refers to the policy of denying recognition of Latin American governments   Missionary diplomacy  
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This term means the policy of using US governments to guarantee loan mad to foreign countries   dollar diplomacy  
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the Mexican leader US troops were trying to catch   Pancho Villa  
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This was one of the worlds greatest engineering feats   Panama Canal  
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He led American troops into Mexico in pursuit of a Mexican leader   John J Pershing  
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This general forced Cubans to relocate to concentration camps   Valeriano Weyler  
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This nation gained independence after the Spanish American War   Cuba  
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Battleship destroyed in Havana harbor   USS Maine  
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The Cuban poet and journalist who launched a Cuban revolution in 1895   Jose Marti  
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After the Spanish American war, the US paid $20 million to annex this land   Philippines  
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Head of the provisional government in Hawaii in 1893   Sanford B Dole  
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The tariff that caused a crisis by threatening Hawaiian sugar growers   MxKinley tariff of 1890  
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President who formally recognizes the republic of Hawaii   Cleveland  
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What war was ended by the treaty of Paris 1898   Spanish-American  
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The president who favored annexation of Hawaii when he took over the presidency from Cleveland   McKinley  
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Which country failed to complete the Panama Canal   France  
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Who proclaimed Hawaii a territory in 1898   Congress  
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During his presidency the US and Mexico came close to war   Woodrow Wilson  
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For which action did Teddy Roosevelt receive a Nobel peace prize   Treaty of Portsmuth  
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Which nation did Emilio Aguinaldo fight   Philippines  
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Teddy Roosevelt was proclaimed a hero of this battle   San Juan Hill  
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The US president most associated with the dollar diplomacy   Taft  
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Which nation was the focus of John Hay's Open Door notes   China  
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Why was there a need for a canal   faster route around the Americas  
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The construction of the Panama canal to how many years   10  
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The letter that criticizes President McKinley   deLome letter  
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This was also know as "the big stick diplomacy"   Monroe doctrine  
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Queen of Hawaii   Liluokalani  
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US navy admiral that urges the US to build up their Navy   Alfred T Mahan  
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Teddy Roosevelt s famous cavalry unit that fought in the Spanish - American war   Rough riders  
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King of Hawaii   Kalakaua  
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Naval base in Hawaii   Pearl Harbor  
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naval hero of the Spanish American war   George Dewey  
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