AP US History: Imperialism Flashcards
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| 6264039752 | Alfred T. Mahan | United States Navy officer; his ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I; wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History | 0 | |
| 6264039754 | Dupuy de Lóme | He was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley (called him basically usless and indecisive) The discovery of his letter strained Spanish-American relations, which helped initiate the Spanish-American War. | 1 | |
| 6264039755 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War. | 2 | |
| 6264039757 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901. | 3 | |
| 6264039758 | William Howard Taft | (1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet, actively pursued anti-trust law suits, ran for re-election in 1912 but lost to Wilson. | 4 | |
| 6264039760 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. | 5 | |
| 6264039761 | Spheres of Influence | Areas in which countries have some political and economic control but do not govern directly; China was carved into several of these by the late 19th century | 6 | |
| 6264039762 | Teller Amendment | Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war. | 7 | |
| 6264039763 | Treaty of Paris | Signed by the United States and Spain in December 1898, this treaty ended the Spanish-American War. | 8 | |
| 6264039764 | Anti-Imperialist League | Group 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. | 9 | |
| 6264039765 | Boxer Rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. | 10 | |
| 6264039766 | "Rough Riders" | volunteer Calvary, a mixure of Ivy League athletes and western frontiermen, volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War. Enlisted by Theodore Roosevelt | 11 | |
| 6264039767 | Big-stick Diplomacy | -roosevelts foreign policy was agressive and imperialistic and would use military force if necessary | 12 | |
| 6264039768 | Roosevelt Corollary | 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. | 13 | |
| 6264039769 | Mckinley Tariff | raised duties on Hawaiian sugar and set off renewed efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the USA | 14 | |
| 6264039770 | USS Maine | american battleship dispatched to keep a "friendly" watch over cuba in early 1898 it mysteriously blew up havana harbor on feb. 2 1898 w/260 sailors dead, explosion was accidental, USA thought it was spanish submarine fault and was ready for war | 15 | |
| 6264039771 | Insular Cases | These Supreme Court cases decided that the Constitution did not always follow the flag, thus denying the rights of a citizen to Puerto Ricans and Filipinos. | 16 | |
| 6264039772 | Platt Amendment | US forced into Cuban Constitution. Cuba could not make treaties with other nations; US had right to intervene in Cuba; US naval bases on Cuban land; Cuba cant borrow money from other countries | 17 | |
| 6264039773 | Open Door Note | sent by John Hay to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy & Japan asking the countries not to interfere with US trading rights in China. | 18 | |
| 6264039775 | Root-Takahira Agreement | 1908 - Japan / U.S. agreement in which both nations agreed to respect each other's territories in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door policy in China. | 19 | |
| 6264039778 | Queen Liliuokalani | queen of Hawaii that highly didnt agree w the US control of Hawaii and wanted to keep the islands mainly native, reducing the power of merchants from foreign nations. | 20 | |
| 6264039779 | John Hay | Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt who pioneered the "open-door" policy and Panama canal | 21 | |
| 6264039780 | Yellow Press | Journalist who wrote to influence american public opinion about the Spanish/American War ( influenced americans to think they needed to go to war with Spain) | 22 | |
| 6264039781 | Hawaii | Know where it is located on the map. Also know facts about Hawaii (Queen Liliuokalani, Cleveland didn't want to annex Hawaii, Mckinley did. ) | 23 | |
| 6264039782 | Alaska | Purchased from Russia in 1867; nicknamed "Seward's Folly" | 24 | |
| 6264039783 | "Gentlemen's Agreement" | informal and secret arrangement b/w TR and Japan in which California discrimination laws were relaxed in exchange for limits on Japanese immigration to the US | 25 | |
| 6264039785 | Sanford B. Dole | chief among the American planters in Hawaii who staged a coup against Queen Lili and requested US military support and annexation of the territory | 26 | |
| 6264039786 | International Darwinism | philosophy that the fittest nations were those which exerted their military and economic influence over lesser nations; advocated strongly by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge | 27 |