APUSH Chapter 27- Empire and Expansion Flashcards

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