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| 6032167056 | US as an Isolated Nation | - had a population of 50 million - wanted repayment for damages brought to the union by the Alabama and other confederate sea raiders from English ports - isolated even though new international telegraphic cables provided over-seas communication | 0 | |
| 6032279840 | US Diplomacy | - at first only between US and Britain - politics made it hard to have a solid foreign policy - diplomats assigned through the spoils system | 1 | |
| 6032314319 | Chester A. Arthur | - wanted to upgrade the navy - said improving it would push their agenda throughout the world - VP until Garfield died --> became president | 2 | |
| 6032350957 | Largest Group of Americans in Foreign Diplomacy | - christian missionaries (predominantly women) | 3 | |
| 6032359005 | James G. Blaine | - became secretary of state in 1881 - called the first Pan-American Conference | 4 | |
| 6032385043 | Pan-Americanism | - notion of community of the western hemisphere states - bring America closer together - the real reason was to make America a stronger nation | 5 | |
| 6032406695 | Pan-American Union | - founded after the second conference - lead to a riot in the port of Valparaiso Chile against American sailors | 6 | |
| 6032541154 | Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 | - Americans were interested in Hawaii because they had sugarcane - gave Hawaiian sugar duty-free entry into the American market - declared the islands off limits to other powers | 7 | |
| 6032580986 | Queen Liliuokalani | - the last queen of Hawaii | 8 | |
| 6032617386 | McKinley Tariff | - a tariff put on trading sugar and pineapple if they weren't in American Territory - canceled Hawaii's access to the American market | 9 | |
| 6032648105 | Treaty of Annexation | - sugar planters revolted against Queen Liliuokalani and negotiated this treaty with President Harrison - before the senate approved it, Grover Cleveland returned to presidency and withdrew the treaty - Cleveland didn't want to annex Hawaii because he thought it would violate America's honor and morality | 10 | |
| 6032679583 | "Seward's Folly" | - America purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars - most people thought it was trash land until they found gold and oil on the land | 11 | |
| 6032702596 | Pago Pago Purchase | - America retained this coaling station for steam ships in the Samoan Islands - a key link on the route to Australia - Germany and Britain both wanted this land | 12 | |
| 6032744297 | Alfred T. Mahan | - The Godfather of our modern navy - wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" - an expansionist strategy - figures out that every major empire has a powerful navy so congress needed to approve the funding of more warships - exerts the idea of the Panama Crossing (later the Panama Canal) - Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge pushed for a "large policy" | 13 | |
| 6032806373 | Two-Ocean Navy | - under Harrison, congress approved funds for 3 modern battleships designed to protect the coasts, support troops, and travel long distances - Cleveland continued this | 14 | |
| 6032838209 | The Venezuela Crisis | - The US stepped in on a fight between Britain and Venezuela - this invoked the Monroe Doctrine | 15 | |
| 6040637164 | The Monroe Doctrine | - invoked by Richard Olney - created to tell Britain to back off the Western Hemisphere | 16 | |
| 6040713125 | Richard Olney | - secretary of state - said that other countries would need to accommodate Americas need for "more markets and larger markets" | 17 | |
| 6040726915 | Expansionism- Social Darwinism | - if the US wanted to survive, they had to expand their borders, especially in relation to Europe | 18 | |
| 6040794054 | Expansionism- Manifest Destiny | - people thought they had to spread their English culture to "savages" in other countries - John Fiske lectured about this subject and wanted to expand it even more | 19 | |
| 6040825961 | Fredrick Jackson Turner | - wrote the thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" - predicted that the US wouldn't be satisfied with its borders and want to expand | 20 | |
| 6040860411 | Cuban Crisis | - Cubans didn't want to be under Spanish rule anymore - the US wanted to help them because they had sugar cane - after the US helped them, Spain offered Cuba limited self-rule but not independence so Cuba denied | 21 | |
| 6040878723 | Valeriano Weyler | - adopted re-concentration - this forced people into camps in attempt to stop the guerrilla fighters but it barely slowed them down | 22 | |
| 6040894143 | Juntas | - Cuban Nationalists that came to New York to make a case for the "Cuba Libre" - they wanted the US to help Cuba gain independence - Hearst used yellow journalism to boost awareness of this | 23 | |
| 6040925491 | Jingoism | - Americans anger against Spain grew - this came with a fiery patriotism | 24 | |
| 6040972336 | Cleveland's stance on the Cuban Crisis | - he was worried this would hurt trade and American business interests | 25 | |
| 6040983224 | McKinley's stance on the Cuban Crisis | - he changed Cleveland's method when he went into power - sent diplomats to Spain to tell them to end the war so Cuba could have stability, and if they didn't, the US would step in | 26 | |
| 6041032661 | Dupuy de Lôme | - his letter was published in the New York journal - called McKinley weak and said the Spanish government didn't take American demands seriously | 27 | |
| 6041048070 | USS Maine Massacre | - after the Dupuy de Lôme letter came out, the USS Maine exploded - US said Spain caused the explosion leading to a ton of yellow journalism on the subject - they later found out that Spain didn't actually cause the explosion | 28 | |
| 6041098054 | War Hawks | - the people in congress that tried to convince McKinley to go to war | 29 | |
| 6041117522 | Teller Amendment | - wanted to be fair if they went to war with Spain - made it clear that they weren't doing this for conquest of Cuba but if they happen to take another island from Spain, they can keep it - McKinley saw the war as an opportunity for expansion | 30 | |
| 6041146799 | Roosevelt and his Rough Riders | - Roosevelt was commissioned to be the lieutenant colonel of his own section of volunteer soldiers called the rough riders - had a lot of problems like bad food and sanitation, no uniforms, small riffle supply, and no provisions for getting the troops to Cuba | 31 | |
| 6041200096 | American Conquest | - america had superior battleships so spain couldn't compete - Commodore George Dewy lead naval victories - America quickly won the Philippines, Guam, Samoa, and Puerto Rico - Hawaii was annexed by joint resolution | 32 | |
| 6041533532 | The Imperial Experiment | - people didn't know what to do with the new land - they didn't want to give them to the harsh spanish rule but didn't think they were fit ti rule themselves | 33 | |
| 6041625590 | Treaty of Paris | - Spanish ceded the Philippines to the US for $20 million - while this was being signed, war broke out in the Philippines | 34 | |
| 6041583872 | Anti-Imperialist League | - these wealthy racist conservatives didn't want the US to conquer the Philippines because they didn't want the "savages" to be American citizens - Carnegie, Gompers, and Adams supported this | 35 | |
| 6041657150 | Emilio Aginaldo | - the modern George Washington of the Philippines - hated the spanish | 36 | |
| 6041715097 | War in the Philippines | - brutal Filipino guerrilla fighters - US resorted to using concentration camps | 37 | |
| 6041743710 | Jones Act | - Said the US wouldn't always be in charge of the Philippines - promised independence but didn't set a date | 38 | |
| 6041762927 | American Empire | - overseas empire - Hawaii - Puerto Rico - Guam - Philippines - several Samoan Islands - this made the US a world power | 39 | |
| 6041873059 | Roosevelt | - wanted to maintain a balance of power - the Anglo-American friendship - said to "speak softly but carry big stick" - justified America as the police of the world | 40 | |
| 6041901600 | Hay-Pauncefote Agerement | - Britain gave up its right to participate in the central American canal project - Made the project exclusively US control | 41 | |
| 6041999552 | Platt amendment | - gave the US the right to intervene militarily with Cuba if they couldn't maintain a solid government - US navy lease Guantanamo Bay | 42 | |
| 6042546705 | Panama Canal | - top of Roosevelt's agenda - canal across central america - Columbia turned the proposal down - lead a Panama resistance against Columbia so the canal could be made | 43 | |
| 6042577862 | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | - clause that stated US had the right to regulate Caribbean affairs | 44 | |
| 6042606743 | Open Door Note | - said all nations could do business with china - proposed by John Hay | 45 | |
| 6042614841 | Boxer Rebellion | - boxers= a secret society of Chinese Nationalists - US joined a multinational campaign to break the boxers' siege of Peking | 46 | |
| 6042642783 | Russo-Japanese war | - Roosevelt mediated a settlement - Japan emerged as the dominant power in east Asia | 47 | |
| 6042705538 | Anti-Asian Sentiment | - San Francisco school board passed a law that put all asians in one school - complicated Roosevelt's efforts to achieve asian accommodation for American interests in the pacific | 48 | |
| 6042733994 | Gentelmens Agreement of 1907 | - Japan agreed to restrict immigration to the US - US said they would desegregate but there was still racist tension | 49 | |
| 6042746214 | Root Takahira Agreement of 1908 | - lead to stability and economic trade in China - everyone had equal opportunities | 50 | |
| 6042765536 | Dollar Diplomacy | - trade element added by William Taft - said the US shouldn't help another nation unless it helps themselves - Wilson hated this- said we should support democracy as a beacon of hope and promised that we will never take another piece of land from another country | 51 | |
| 6042785572 | Chinese Revolution 1911 | - Chinese nationalists brought down the Manchu Dynasty - Taft supported this - lead to the US having a rivalry with Japan | 52 | |
| 6042810644 | Porfirio Diaz | - corrupt mexican dictator - Wilson hated him - overthrown by Francisco Madero | 53 | |
| 6042816845 | Francisco Madero | - fair reformer of liberty and constitutionalism - wilson supported him - assassinated by Victoriano Huerta | 54 | |
| 6042823181 | Victoriano Huerta | - corrupt - wilson hated him and wanted the marines to step in to take him out of power - liked by big business - taken out of power by Venustiano Caranza | 55 | |
| 6042833436 | Venustiano Caranza | - lead a constitutionalist movement against Huerta - wanted to be recognized as the leader of Mexico (belligerent power) and legally buy weapons from the US to take him down | 56 | |
| 6042844955 | Poncho Via | - a general under Caranza that wanted him out of power - killed a large group of American train passengers - hunted down by Wilson and Caranza but never found | 57 | |
| 6042852135 | Triple Alliance | - Germany - Austria-Hungary - Italy | 58 | |
| 6042855010 | Triple Entente | - England - France - Russia | 59 | |
| 6042865482 | Wilson Avoiding WWI | - good peace talker and brokered an arbitration deal where France and Germany both got part of Morocco, putting off WWI | 60 |
