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| 231013892 | Richard Olney | Grover Cleveland's Secretary of State who blasted the British with a note on how they violated the Monroe Doctrine. | |
| 231013893 | Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe's statement in 1823 forbidding further colonization in the Americas and declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to colonize would be considered an act of hostility | |
| 231013894 | Great Rapprochement | reconciliation between the US and Britain. the new Anglo-American cordiality became a cornerstone of both nations and foreign policies as the 20th century started | |
| 231013895 | Queen Liliuokalani | the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests | |
| 231013896 | Hawaiian Planter "Revolt" (1893) | revolt against Hawaii rulers lead by American farmers (minority) assisted by unauthorized American troops, overthrew Queen Liliuokalani | |
| 231013897 | Cuban insurrectos | Cubans who burned cane fields, sugar mills, and even passenger trains under the reasoning that if they did enough damage, either Spain might be willing to move out, or the US might come to their aid | |
| 231013898 | General "Butcher" Weyler | Spanish general who was sent from Spain to cuba to crush rebellion. He herded many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps, where they could not help the insurrectos. | |
| 231013899 | De Lome Letter (February 1898) | private letter written by the Spanish minister in Washington describing President McKinley as an ear-to-the-ground politician who lacked good faith; stolen from the mails and headlined by Hearst; led to an uproar so violent that Dupuy de Lôme was forced to resign | |
| 231013900 | "Remember the Maine" (February 1898) | American reason to fight Spain because they believed the bombed and sunk the Maine who was secretly sent to help Americans out of Cuba should a war break out. | |
| 231013901 | McKinley's War Message (April 1898) | He urged that America use armed intervention to free the oppressed Cubans from Spanish misrule; essentially a declaration of war | |
| 231013902 | Teller Amendment | Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war | |
| 231013903 | John D. Long | Navy secretary whose absence resulted in the descent of American troops on the Philippines. | |
| 231013904 | Theodore Roosevelt | Assistant Secretary of Navy, Rough Rider (helped him gain fame after San Juan Hill), instructed Commodore Dewey to attack Philippines becomes president | |
| 231013905 | Commodore George Dewey | A commodore during the Spanish-American War who captured the Philippines and Guam. | |
| 231013906 | Manila Harbor (May 1898) | Dewey defeated the ten Spanish ships guarding the Philippines; no American casualties; led to Dewey's prompt promotion to Admiral | |
| 231013907 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898); brought back from exile by US, leader of Philippines | |
| 231013908 | Hawaiian Annexation (July 1898) | the white dominated government campaigned for annexation. Hawaii was given territorial rights. | |
| 231013909 | Admiral Cervera | Spanish naval leader in the Caribbean during the Spanish-American War | |
| 231013910 | General William R. Shafter | led the invasion force from the rear to drive Cervera out of Cuba. (US) | |
| 231013911 | Roosevelt's Rough Riders" | The First United States Volunteer Calvary, a mixure of Ivy League athletes and western frontiermen, volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War. Enlisted by Theodore Roosevelt, they won many battles in Florida and enlisted in the invasion army of Cuba. | |
| 231013912 | Colonel Leonard Wood | Commander of the "Rough Riders" | |
| 231013913 | San Juan Hill | famous attack by Rough Riders, RESULT: US takes control of Cuba, Spain surrenders Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines | |
| 231013914 | Santiago (July 1898) | American navy entirely destroyed Cervera's Spanish fleet after a chase | |
| 231013915 | General Nelson A. Miles | Commanding General of US Army in Spanish-American War, led invasion of Puerto Rico | |
| 231013916 | Treaty with Spain | American gained Guam, Puerto Rico and the independence for Cuba from Spain. Since the armistice was signed a day before the Philippines was taken, the American gov. paid 20 million for it. It ends Spanish rule in West. | |
| 231013917 | Philippine Annexation | options: give islands back to Spanish misrule (dishonorable); abandon islands (cowardly); leave Filipinos to govern themselves (possible anarchy seizure by another power); acquire all islands and perhaps grant freedom to all later (popular and accepted decision), caused division of Imperialists and Anti-Imperialists in Congress. | |
| 231013918 | Anti-Imperialist League | A league containing anti-imperialist groups; Isolationists. They fought against the McKinley administration's expansionist moves. Fought against Philippine annexation. | |
| 231013919 | William Jennings Bryan | This Democratic candidate ran for president most famously in 1896 (and again in 1900). His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator, he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president and lost in 1900. Later he opposed America's imperialist actions, and in the 1920s | |
| 231013920 | Foraker Act (1900) | Congress gave the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government and, in 1917, granted them U.S. citizenship | |
| 231013921 | Insular Cases (1901) | ruled that people in our territories were not U.S. citizens and therefore didn't have equal rights; constitution didn't apply. "flag outrun constitution" | |
| 231013922 | Dr. Walter Reed | a doctor who made an outstanding contribution to the health of people in tropical climates around the world (such as Cuba and the Philippines which the US now occupy) by proving that yellow fever was carried by Mosquitoes, leading to the effective control of tropical diseases | |
| 231013923 | Platt Amendment (1901) | Cuban Constitution (added after pressure by US gov.); said that 1) the US could intervene and restored order in case of anarchy 2) US could trade freedly 3) US could get two bays for naval bases (Guatanamo Bay) | |
| 231013924 | Guantanamo Bay | Military base granted to the US in Cuba | |
| 231013925 | Elihu Root | Secretary of war, founded the War college |
