APUSH Chapter 27
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| 1209562659 | josiah strong | a popular American minister in the late 1800s who linked Anglo-Saxonism to Christian missionary ideas | |
| 1209562660 | Captain Alfred T Mahan | Who was the naval officer who emphasized that a strong navy was one of the main factors in a country's power and urged Americans to improve their navy? (hint: his ideas were supported by Theodore Roosevelt) | |
| 1209562661 | Big Sister | Aimed to rally Latin American nations behind the United States and open Latin American markets to American traders. | |
| 1209562662 | Twisting the Lions Tail | Politicians quickly learned that there was power in the Irish vote; antagonizing England whom the Irish hated; | |
| 1209562663 | Queen Liliuokalani | the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests | |
| 1209562664 | yellow journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers | |
| 1209562665 | Dupuy de Lome | He was a Spanish minister in Washington. He wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley and how he lacked good faith. He was forced to resign when Hearst discovered and published the letter. This publishing helped to spark the Spanish-American War. | |
| 1209562666 | USS Maine | Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War | |
| 1209562667 | Teller Amendment | Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war | |
| 1209562668 | Commodore George Dewey | Admiral of the United States Navy and best known for his victory during the Spanish - American War | |
| 1209562669 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino General - helped US take Philipines during Spanish-American war - helped Philippines gain freedom from US | |
| 1209562670 | 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. | |
| 1209562671 | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919. 26th President. Increased size of Navy, "Great White Fleet". Added Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine. "Big Stick" policy. Received Nobel Peace Prize for mediation of end of Russo-Japanese war. Later arbitrated split of Morocco between Germany and France. | |
| 1209562672 | Guam | Americans secured this remote Pacific island from Spain after the war over Cuba. Americans had captured it earlier, before the residents even knew that there was a war going on. | |
| 1209562673 | Puerto Rico | A U.S. territory; the U.S. gained it from Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War. People here have U.S. citizenship, and many here would like it to be a U.S. state. | |
| 1209562674 | Philipines | Place where the first battle of the Spanish-American War took place. | |
| 1209562675 | Anti-Imperialist League | objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire. Idealism, self-interest, racism, constitutionalism, and other reasons motivated them, but they failed to make their case; the Philippines were annexed in 1900 | |
| 1209562676 | Rudyard Kipling | (1864-1936) English writer and poet; defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands | |
| 1209562677 | Foraker act of 1900 | Congress gave the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government and, in 1917, granted them U.S. citizenship | |
| 1209562678 | Insular Cases | Determined that inhabitants of U.S. territories had some, but not all, of the rights of U.S. citizens. | |
| 1209562679 | Platt Amendment | Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got into trouble | |
| 1209562680 | Filipino Insurection | Filipinos revolt--Emilio Aquinaldo. | |
| 1209562681 | william h. taft | 1909-1913, Republican, issue - conservation policies, antitrust laws, tariff, against Bryan | |
| 1209562682 | Secretary of State John Hay | ex-Lincoln secretary; worked to gain Open Door Notes' acceptance from the major powers | |
| 1209562683 | open door policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. | |
| 1209562684 | boxers rebellion | The uprising that took place in response to foreigners' spheres of influence in China | |
| 1209562685 | William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) | |
| 1209562686 | Panama Revolution | Panamanian businessmen revolt b/c they wanted the US to build the canal, and Colombia, which was in control of the land, said no. | |
| 1209562687 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | 1903 - U.S. guaranteed the independence of the newly-created Republic of Panama. | |
| 1209562688 | Roosevelt Corollary | (TR) , Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force, first put into effect in Dominican Republic | |
| 1209562689 | Russo-Japanese War | (1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious. | |
| 1209562690 | Nobel Prize to Teddy Roosevelt | ... | |
| 1209562691 | Japanese Gentlemen's Agreement | 1907-1908 restricted further Japanese immigration | |
| 1209562692 | Great White Fleet | 16 American battleships, painted white, sent around the world to display American naval power |
