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| 133167161 | Yellow press | newspaper journalism that over exaggerated the actual news, and barely spoke the truth which would try to entertaining the public leaders of this type of "literature" were joseph pulitzer and william R. hearst | 0 | |
| 133167162 | Joseph Pulitzer | leading author of yellow press journalism, who wrote about foreign exploits but as deering and interesting stories. competed with Hearst to get more sales | 1 | |
| 133167163 | William Randolph Hearst | leading author of yellow press journalism, who wrote about foreign exploits but as deering and interesting stories. competed with pilitzer to get more sales | 2 | |
| 133167164 | Joseph Strong | reverend and author of "our country: its possible future and its present crisis" which was addressed for new souls to convert and americanize | 3 | |
| 133167165 | Theodore Roosevelt | interpreted Darwanism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and fit. and led the beginning of the war with he phillipines while being assistant secretary for john d. long | 4 | |
| 133167166 | Henry Cabot Lodge | along with Roosevelt believed that Darwanism took truth in not only American society but in the world's society | 5 | |
| 133167167 | Alfred Thayer Mahan | author of "the influence of sea power upon history". he believed that having control of the sea was the key to world domination | 6 | |
| 133167168 | James G. Blaine | founder of the big sister policy which aimed at rallying the Latin American nations behind Uncle Sams leadership and opening Latin american markets to yankee traders | 7 | |
| 133167169 | Big Sister Policy | a foreign policy of Secretary of State James G. Blaine aimed at rallying Latin American nations behind American leadership and opening Latin American markets to Yankee traders; the policy bore fruit in 1889, when Blaine presided over the First International Conference of American States | 8 | |
| 133167170 | Pan-American Conference | assemebled under Blaines efforts of persuing the BIg Sister Policy. it was held in washington D.C. | 9 | |
| 133167171 | Richard Olney | secretary of state of president cleveland, who brought out the monroe doctrine that denied britians domination over venezuela | 10 | |
| 133167172 | Great Rapprochement | after decades of occasionally "twisting the lion's tail," American diplomats began to cultivate close, cordial relations with Great Britain at the end of the 19th century-a relationship that would intensify further during World War I | 11 | |
| 133167173 | Queen Liliuokalani | queen of the hawiian nation who enlisted natives to control the islands and make sure the white settlers would not try to take control | 12 | |
| 133167174 | The Maine | American battleship dispatched to keep a "friendly" watch over Cuba in early 1898; it mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, with a loss of 260 sailors; later evidence confirmed that the explosion was accidental, resulting from combustion in one of the ship's internal coal bunkers; but many Americans, eager for war, insisted that it was the fault of a Spanish submarine mine | 13 | |
| 133167175 | Teller Amendment | a proviso to President William McKinley's war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the US had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom; the amendment testified to the ostensibly "anti-imperialist" designs of the initial war plans | 14 | |
| 133167176 | John D. Long | navy secretary whose assistant commanded for war with the philipines | 15 | |
| 133167177 | George Dewey | national hero and took action under roosevelts command. he destryed the enemy's fleet but didnt destroy the forts of manila | 16 | |
| 133167178 | Emilio Aguinaldo | part chinese leader who was commanding the flilipino insurgents. his forts was captured by america on august 13 1898 | 17 | |
| 133167179 | Rough Riders | organized by Theodore Roosevelt, this was a colorful, motley regimen of Cuban war volunteers consisting of western cowboys, ex-convicts, and effete Ivy Leaguers; Roosevelt emphasized his experience with the regiment in subsequent campaigns for Governor of New York and Vice President under William McKinley | 18 | |
| 133167180 | Anti-Imperialist League | a diverse group formed in order to protest American colonial oversight Philippines; it included university presidents, industrialists, clergymen, and labor leaders; strongest in the Northeast, it was the largest lobbying organization on a US foreign policy issue until the end of the 19th century | 19 | |
| 133167181 | Foraker Act of 1900 | sponsored by Senator Joseph B. Foraker, a republican from Ohio, this accorded Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government; it was the first comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish American, and served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines in 1902 | 20 | |
| 133167182 | Insular Cases | beginning in 1901, a badly divided Supreme Court decreed that in these cases the Constitution did not follow the flag; in other words, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos would not necessarily enjoy all American rights | 21 | |
| 133167183 | Platt Amendment | following its military occupation, the US successfully pressured Cuban government to write this amendment into its constitution; it limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the US could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit | 22 |
