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| 5991649601 | William Seward | Republican secretary of state for both Lincoln and Johnson: prevented G.B and France from entering the war with confeds, help U.S. annex Midway Islands, and gain rights to build a canal in Nicaragua. Congress agreed to purchase Alaska for 7.2 million dollars as a result of his lobbying and Russia's support in Civil War | 0 | |
| 5991649602 | Monroe Doctrine | The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. | 1 | |
| 5991649603 | Pan-American Conference (1889) | Secretary of State Blaine's repeated efforts to establish closer ties between the United States and its southern neighbors bore fruit in 1889 with this meeting. It was an organization for international cooperation on trade and other issues | 2 | |
| 5991649604 | international Darwinism | Darwin's concept of the survival of the fittest was applied to competition among nations and races for military advantage, colonies, and spheres of influence. | 3 | |
| 5991649605 | steel and steam navy | U.S. naval strategists persuaded Congress to finance the construction of modern steel ships and encouraged the acquisition of oversee islands - desired as coaling and supply stations | 4 | |
| 5991649606 | Cuban revolt | Cuban nationalists renewed fighting and revolt after failing to overthrow Spanish colonial rule. They hoped to either force Spain to withdrawal or pull in the U.S. as an ally. | 5 | |
| 5991649607 | Valeriano Weyler | He was a Spanish General referred to as "Butcher". He undertook to crush the Cuban rebellion by herding many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps, where they could not give assistance to the armed insurrectionists. | 6 | |
| 5991649608 | "jingoism" | an intensive form of nationalism calling for an aggressive foreign policy | 7 | |
| 5991649609 | "yellow journalism" | sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster and scandal | 8 | |
| 5991649610 | De Lome Letter | a Spanish letter leaked to the press and printed on the front page of Heart's Journal- critical against McKinley and man considered it an insult against U.S. national honor | 9 | |
| 5991649611 | sinking of the Maine | battleship that exploded killing people on board, yellow press accused Spain of doing it on purpose, later proved to be accident | 10 | |
| 5991649612 | Teller Amendment | declared that the United States had no intention of taking political control of Cuba and that, once peace was restored to the island , the Cuban people would control their own government | 11 | |
| 5991649613 | "a splendid little war" | referring to the Spanish American war and was because it was a swift U.S victory | 12 | |
| 5991649614 | invasion of the Philippines | Roosevelt (assistant secretary)ordered fleet by Commander George Dewey here - sea battle won quick;y land battle took a little more effort | 13 | |
| 5991649615 | "Rough Riders" | a regiment of volunteers led by Theodore Roosevelt who had resigned his navy post to take part in the war - cavalry charge | 14 | |
| 5991649616 | Theodore Roosevelt | assistant secretary of the navy who fought in the Spanish American War...later became president. | 15 | |
| 5991649617 | Anti-Imperialist League | organization led by William Jennings Bryan that rallied opposition to further acts of expansion in the Pacific | 16 | |
| 5991649618 | Insular Cases | A series of supreme court cases in which it was ruled that constitutional rights were not automatically extended to territorial possessions and that the power to decide whether or not to grant such rights belonged to Congress. | 17 | |
| 5991649619 | Platt Amendment (1901) | Cuba's acceptance of terms : to never sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its independence, to permit the United States to intervene in Cuba's affairs to preserve its independence and maintain law and order, to allow the U.S. to maintain naval bases in Cuba | 18 | |
| 5991649620 | spheres of influence | Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France, and Germany had all established spheres of influence in China, meaning that they could dominate trade and investment within their sphere and shut out competitors. | 19 | |
| 5991649621 | John Hay | McKinley's secretary of state that took steps to prevent the U.S. from losing access to the lucrative China trade. | 20 | |
| 5991649622 | Open Door Policy | policy by John Hay in which all nations would have equal trading privileges in China | 21 | |
| 5991649623 | Boxer Rebellion | Society of Harmonious Fists (secret society of Chinese nationalists) attacked foreign settlements and murdered dozens of Christian missionaries | 22 | |
| 5991649624 | "big-stick policy" | nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy | 23 | |
| 5991649625 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | treaty between the new Panama and the U.S. that granted them all rights over the 51 mile long and 10 mile wide Canal Zone | 24 | |
| 5991649626 | Roosevelt Corollary | Rather than let Europeans intervene in Latin America, the U.S. would intervene whenever necessary | 25 | |
| 5991649627 | Treaty of Portsmouth | diplomatic conference arranged by Theodore Roosevelt to end the conflict of the Russo-Japanese war | 26 | |
| 5991649628 | Noble Peace Prize (1906) | given to Theodore Roosevelt for his achievement of helping to settle the Russo-Japanese war | 27 | |
| 5991649629 | gentlemen's agreement | agreement in which the Japanese gov. secretly agreed to restrict the emigration of Japanese workers to the United States in return for Roosevelt persuading California to repeal its discriminatory laws | 28 | |
| 5991649630 | Great White Fleet | used to demonstrate U.S. naval power to Japan and other nations |  | 29 |
| 5991649631 | William Howard Taft | adopted a foreign policy that was mildly expansionist but depended more on investors' dollars than on the navy's battleships | 30 | |
| 5991649632 | Manchurian problem | United States was excluded from an agreement between Russia and Japan to build railroads in Manchuria, jointly held sphere of influence which was in defiance of the Open Door Policy | 31 | |
| 5991649633 | Lodge Corollary | resolution that states non-European powers would be excluded from owning territory in the Western Hemisphere - response to possible Japanese motives to acquire Baja Peninsula | 32 | |
| 5991649634 | Woodrow Wilson | president elected in 1912 that called for a new freedom in government and promised a moral approach to foreign affairs - opposed big stick and dollar diplomacy policies | 33 | |
| 5991649635 | anti-imperialism | those who did not believe that the U.S. should be looking to expand- possible reasons was that imperialism was morally wrong and/or economically unsound | 34 | |
| 5991649636 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic nominee in 1900 who argued for free silver and vigorously attacked the growth of American imperialism also secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson- hoped to demonstrate U.S. respect for other nations and would support spread of democracy | 35 | |
| 5991649637 | Conciliation treaties | projects of William Jennings Bryan in which nations pledged to submit disputes to international commissions and observe a one year cooling off period before taking military action | 36 | |
| 5991649638 | ABC powers | The South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, which attempted to mediate a dispute between Mexico and the United States in 1914. | 37 |
