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29 Cards in this Set
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Treaty of Paris 1898
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- Treaty that concluded the Spanish American War
-America got Guam and Puerto Rico - America bought the Phillippines for $ 20 million - Cuba was freed from Spain |
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Richard Olney
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-Attorney General
- stopped Britain from taking over Venezuela |
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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- Wrote , " the Influence of Sea Power on history"
- stressed importance of a navy |
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James G. Blaine
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-Republican presidential candidate in 1884
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Valeriano Weyler
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- Spanish officer who tried to crush the Cuban revolt
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Dupuy de Lome
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- Spanish minister who spoke against President Mcklinley
- sparked Spanish American war |
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George Dewey
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- Commodore of ships in Spanish American war
-attaked the Phillippines |
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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- Filipino who helped fight the Spanish alongside the Americans
-led Filipinos later against Americans because America denied them freedom |
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Jingoism
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- aggressive, nationalistic expansion.
- Theodore Roosevelt believed in |
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Imperialism
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-the policy and practice of forming and maintaining an empire
-control raw materials and world markets |
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Pan- American Conference
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Conference with James Blaine
- created cooperation between the US and Latin American countries |
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Maine
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- Battleship that blew up on Feb 1898 in Havana Cuba
- sparked the Spanish-American War. |
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Teller Ammendment
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- promised that Cuba would get freedom after freed from Spain
- passed in Congress in 1898 |
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Rough Riders
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- volunteers lead Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt
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Ant- Imperialist League
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- fought Mcklinley's expansionism
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Foraker Act
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- passed in 1900
-set up a Legislative Assembly in Puerto Rico -gave the Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. |
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Insular Case
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- in 1901 and 1903
-Supreme Court decided that the Philippines and Puerto Rico would not be freed |
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Platt Ammendment
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-gave the U.S the right to take over the Island of Cuba if Cuba do something wrong
- establish American navy in Cuba |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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- United States President from 1901-1909
- believed in " Speak softly but carry a big stick" |
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Valparaiso
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-Chile and U.S almost went to war after death sof 2 Americans
-1898 |
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Monroe Doctorine
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- prevented Europe from monopolizing the Americas
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McKinley Tariff
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- raised prices on Hawaiian sugar
-reason for annexing Hawaii to the U.S |
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Queen Liliuokalani
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- Queen of Hawaii
- spoke against annexation of Hawaii |
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Hawaiian islands
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- annexed to the US in 1893
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Cuban rebellion
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- erupted against Spain in 1895
-crushed by Weyler |
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Frederick Remington
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- hired new yellow journalism to draw pictures of astrocities
- drew pictures for the Maine Explosion |
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John D. Long
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- modernized U.S navy
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Nelso A. Miles
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- commanded the American army in Puerto Rico
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Joseph Wheeler
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- General given command in Cuba
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