Chapter 27: the path of empire(empire and expansion) Flashcards

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