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| 985308310 | Samoa Islands | remote Pacific site of a naval clash between the US and Germany in 1889 | 0 | |
| 985308311 | Chile | South American nation that nearly came to blows with the US in 1892 over an incident involving the deaths of American soldiers | 1 | |
| 985308312 | Monroe Doctrine | the principle of US foreign policy invoked by Olney to justify US intervention in the Venezuelan boundary dispute | 2 | |
| 985308313 | Yellow Journalism | term for the sensationalistic and jingoistic journalisn practiced by W. R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer | 3 | |
| 985308314 | Maine | US battleship sent on a "friendly" visit to Havana, Cuba that ended in disaster and war | 4 | |
| 985308316 | Manila Bay | site of the dramatic US naval victory that lead to US acquisition of rich, Spanish-owned Pacific Islands | 5 | |
| 985308317 | Rough Riders | calvary volunteer regiment of the Spanish-American War led by Roosevelt | 6 | |
| 985308318 | Teller Amendment | added to the declaration of war against Spain- stated that the US had no intent of exercising control over Cuba at the end of the war | 7 | |
| 985308319 | Treaty of Paris | 1898- Ended the Spanish American War: US receives Guam, Puerto Rico, & the Philippines | 8 | |
| 985308320 | Anti-Imperialist League | group that organized in protest of US attempts to colonize foreign nations | 9 | |
| 985308321 | Foraker Act | 1900- gave Puerto Rico a limited degree of popular government- large numbers of Puerto Ricans moved to NYC | 10 | |
| 985308322 | Insular Cases | Supreme Court cases that said the Constitution didn't follow the flag- applies to the inhabitants of foreign countries we controlled | 11 | |
| 985308323 | Platt Amendment | added to the Cuban constitution-stated that the US had the right to intervene if Cuban democracy was threatened | 12 | |
| 985308324 | Philippine Insurrection | led be Emilio Aguinaldo, the Filipinos rose | 13 | |
| 985308325 | Open Door Note | issued by John Hay, it stated that all nations should respect free trade in China | 14 | |
| 985308326 | Boxer Rebellion | young Chinese nationalists who rebelled in order to throw out foreigners- was suppressed by a multi-national force including the US | 15 | |
| 985308328 | Puerto Rico | Caribbean island conquered from Spain in 1898 that became an important US colony | 16 | |
| 985308331 | Josiah Strong | US clergyman who preached Anglo-Saxon superiority and called for stronger US missionary effort overseas | 17 | |
| 985308332 | Alfred Thayer Mahan | US naval officer who wrote influential books emphasizing sea power and advocating a big navy | 18 | |
| 985308333 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino leader of a guerrilla war against US rule from 1899 to 1901 | 19 | |
| 985308334 | Queen Liliuokalani | Native Hawaiian ruler overthrown in aa revolution led by white planters and aided by US troops | 20 | |
| 985308335 | Grover Cleaveland | US president who refused to annex Hawaii on the grounds that the native ruler has been unjustly deposed | 21 | |
| 985308336 | "Butcher" Weyler | Spanish general whose brutal tactics against Cuban rebels outraged US public opinion | 22 | |
| 985308338 | William R. Hearst | vigorous promoter of sensationalistic anti-Spanish propaganda and eager advocate of imperialistic war | 23 | |
| 985308339 | William McKinley | president who initially opposed war with Spain but eventually supported US acquisition of the Philippines | 24 | |
| 985308340 | Alfred Thayer Mahan | author of the "Influence of Sea Power On History" | 25 | |
| 985308341 | James G. Blaine | secretary of state who organized the Pan-American Conference | 26 | |
| 985308501 | Richard Olney | secretary of state who invoked the Monroe Doctrine in an attempt to settle the Venezuelan Boundary dispute between Britain and Venezuela | 27 | |
| 985308523 | Butcher Weyler | Spanish Commander sent over to suppress Cuban insurrection and destruction of property | 28 | |
| 985308760 | Dupuy de Lome | Spanish minister who wrote a letter which was critical of William McKinley | 29 | |
| 985308838 | Theodore Roosevelt | organizer of the Rough Riders and its most famous members | 30 | |
| 985308839 | George Dewey | US naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at Manilia | 31 | |
| 985308840 | Emilo Aquinaldo | Filipino who fought with the US against the Spanish and then against the US when the Filipino people were not given their independence | 32 | |
| 985308841 | Big Sister Policy | James Blaine, secretary of state, pushed the policy of rallying the Latin American nations behind US leadership and the opening of Latin American markets to trade | 33 | |
| 985308842 | John Hay | Secretary of State who issued the Open Door Note and the extension to the Open Door Note | 34 | |
| 985308843 | Philippe Bunau-Varilla | scheming French engineer who worked to make sure France was paid for the portion of the canal they had already constructed | 35 | |
| 985308845 | George Washington Goethals | engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama canal | 36 | |
| 985308847 | Reconcentration camps | barbed wire barriers that Butcher Weyler ordered Cubans subject of | 37 | |
| 985308848 | Jingoism | foreign policy of threats and other intimidations toward another nation | 38 | |
| 985308849 | Imperialism | the policy of establishing colonies and building an empire | 39 | |
| 985308850 | Guerrilla Warfare | derived from the Spanish word which means "little war" hit and run tactics | 40 | |
| 985308851 | Spheres of Influence | phrase utilized to indicate a situation in which a more powerful influence exercises an unusual amount of control over the government of another nation | 41 | |
| 985308852 | "yellow peril" | the ever increasing numbers of laborers coming into the country from China | 42 | |
| 985308853 | Pan-American Conference | 1889- modest results but an important first step of inter-American co-op | 43 |
