APUSH Chapter 27 Word Scramble
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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 |
| James G. Blaine | published the "big sister policy", which aimed to rally Latin American countries behind American leadership and open Latin American trade markets |
| Richard Olney | Cleveland's secretary of state; claimed that Britain would violate the Monroe Doctrine if it claimed Venezuela |
| Valeriano Weyler | Spanish general in Cuba who herded many civilians into concentration camps |
| 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 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president; hero of the Spanish-American war; built the Panama Canal during his administration; carried the "big stick" |
| 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 |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | led the Filipino push for independence |
| reconcentration | policy of moving Cubans to detention camps so they could not aid rebels |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism, often favoring aggressive foreign policy |
| imperialism | a policy in which a nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically |
| Pan-American Conference | an international organization that dealt with trade; organized by James G. Blaine to encourage trust and cooperation within the manufacturers |
| Maine | an American ship that blew up in a Havana port in 1898; after this incident war with Spain became imminent |
| Teller Amendment | proclaimed that the US would give Cubans freedom when it overthrew Spanish misrule |
| Rough Riders | volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American war |
| 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 |
| Anti-Imperialist League | objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire |
| Foraker Act | 1900; Congress agreed to give Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government |
| insular cases | 1901; the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution did not extend to the Philippines and Puerto Rico |
| 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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