Apush Chapter 27 Part 2
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| 653937102 | Anti-Imperialist League | The ____________________sprang into being, firmly opposed to this new imperialism of America, and its members included Mark Twain, William James, Samuel Gompers, and Andrew Carnegie. | |
| 653937104 | Filipinos | The _____________ wanted freedom, and denying that to them was un-American. | |
| 653937106 | Expansionists | ________________ cried that the Philippines could become another Hong Kong. | |
| 653937108 | Rudyard Kipling | British writer ___________wrote about "The White Man's Burden," urging America to keep the Philippines and "civilize them." | |
| 653937110 | treaty | In the Senate, the __________ was almost not passed, but finally, William Jennings Bryan argued for its passage, saying that the sooner the treaty was passed, the sooner the U.S. could get rid of the Philippines. The treaty passed by only one vote. | |
| 653937112 | Foraker Act | The ___________ of 1900 gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. | |
| 653937115 | Insular Cases | In the _____________, the Supreme Court barely ruled that the Constitution did not have full authority on how to deal with the islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico), essentially letting Congress do whatever it wanted with them. Basically, the cases said the island residents do not necessarily share the same rights as Americans. | |
| 653937117 | Platt Amendment | In 1902, the U.S. walked away from Cuba, but it also encouraged Cuba to write and pass the ________________, which became their constitution. This amendment said that (1) the U.S. could intervene and restore order in case of anarchy, (2) that the U.S. could trade freely with Cuba, and (3) that the U.S. could get two bays for naval bases, notably Guantanamo Bay. | |
| 653937119 | world power | The Spanish-American War lasted only 113 days and affirmed America's presence as a _________________. | |
| 653937121 | happiest | Finally, one of the ____________ results of the war was the narrowing of the bloody chasm between the U.S. North and South, which had been formed in the Civil War. | |
| 653937123 | revolted | The Filipinos had assumed that they would receive freedom after the Spanish-American War, but when they didn't they __________ against the U.S. | |
| 653937125 | independence | The Americans tried to assimilate the Filipinos, but the islandersresisted; they finally got their __________________on July 4, 1946. | |
| 653937128 | export | Following its defeat by Japan in 1894-1895, China had been carved into "spheres of influence" by the European powers. Americans were alarmed, as churches worried about their missionary strongholds while businesses feared that they would not be able to __________their products to China. Finally, Secretary of State John Hay dispatched his famous Open Door note, which urged the European nations to keep fair competition open to all nations willing and wanting to participate. This became the "Open Door Policy." | |
| 653937130 | President McKinley | was considered a puppet to the public. He easily election. | |
| 653937132 | youngest . | Six months later, McKinley was shot and killed by a deranged murderer, making Theodore Roosevelt the _____________ president ever at age 42 | |
| 653937134 | policies | Theodore Roosevelt promised to carry out McKinley's.___________. Theodore Roosevelt was a barrel-chested man with a short temper, large glasses, and a stubborn mentality that always thought he was right. | |
| 653937135 | "Speak softly and carry a big stick, | Born into a rich family and graduated from Harvard, he was highly energetic and spirited, and his motto was"_____________________" or basically, "Let your actions do the talking." | |
| 653937136 | first modern president." | Roosevelt rapidly developed into a master politician, and a maverick uncontrollable by party machines, and he believed that a president should lead, which would explain the precedents that he would set during his term, becoming the "___________________. | |
| 653937137 | Canal | Theodore Roosevelt had traveled to Europe and knew more about foreign affairs than most of his predecessors, and one foreign affair that he knew needed to be dealt with was the creation of a _______ through the Central American isthmus. | |
| 653937138 | Tip | During the Spanish-American War, the battleship U.S.S. Oregon had been forced to steam all the way around the ___ of South America to join the fleet in Cuba. | |
| 653937139 | Defense | Such a waterway would also make ________ of the recent island acquisitions easier (i.e. Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii). | |
| 653937140 | nullified | The 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain had forbade the construction by either country of a canal in the Americas without the other's consent and help, but that statement was ___________ in 1901 by the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. | |
| 653937141 | Panama | The U.S. finally chose after Mount Pelée erupted and killed 30,000 people. The U.S. negotiated a deal that would buy a 6-mile-wide strip of land in Panama for $10 million and a $250,000 annual payment, but this treaty was retracted by the Colombian government, which owned Panama. TR was furious, since he wanted construction of the canal to begin before the 1904 campaign. | |
| 653937142 | Columbia | At this point, TR and the U.S. decided enough was enough and it was time for action. On November 3, 1903, another revolution in Panama began with the killing of a Chinese civilian and a donkey, and when ______________ tried to stop it, the U.S., citing an 1846 treaty with Colombia, wouldn't let the Colombian fleet through. | |
| 653937143 | Signed | Panama was thus recognized by the U.S., and fifteen days later, Bunau-Varilla, the Panamanian minister despite his French nationality, ________ the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty that gave a widened (6x10 mi.) Panamanian zone to the U.S. for $15 million. | |
| 653937144 | Tear | TR didn't actively plot to ______ Panama away from Colombia, but it seemed like it to the public, and to Latin America, and his actions in this incident saw him suffer a political black eye. | |
| 653937145 | Construction | In 1904, ______________ began on the Panama Canal, but at first, problems with landslides and sanitation occurred. | |
| 653937146 | 1914 | The canal was finally finished and opened in _____, at a cost of $400 million. |
