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MONROE DOCTRINE
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policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed, by the United States of America, as acts of aggression requiring US intervention
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ISOLATIONISM
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a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism).
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IMPERIALISM
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the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.
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JOSIAH STRONG
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an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement that sought to apply Protestant religious principles to solve the social ills brought on by industrialization, urbanization and immigration
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“OUR COUNTRY”
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a book written by Protestant cleric Josiah Strong
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QUEEN LILIUOKALANI
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hawaiian queen who was overthrown
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ALFRED THAYER MAHAN
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a leader behind the creation of the US navy
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“THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY”
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is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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GEORGE DEWEY
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was an admiral of the United States Navy
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MCKINLEY TARIFF
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set the average ad valorem tariff rate for imports to the United States at 48.4%, and protected manufacturing.
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WILSON GORMAN TARIFF
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slightly reduced the United States tariff rates from the numbers set in the 1890 McKinley tariff and imposed a 2% income tax.
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VALERIANO WEYLER
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lieutenant who put many cubans into concentration camps
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YELLOW JOURNALISM
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using powerful words to sell newspapers
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USS MAINE
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a naval ship which blew up
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RECONCENTRATION POLICY
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the acts of putting cubans into camps
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TELLER AMENDMENT
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an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 19, 1898, in reply to President William McKinley's War Message. It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people."
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“SPLENDID LITTLE WAR”
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Spanish–American War
Part of the Philippine Revolution, Cuban War of Independence Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill, by Frederic Remington Date April 25 – August 12, 1898 Location Cuba, and Puerto Rico (Caribbean) Philippines, and Guam (Asia-Pacific) Result United States victory Treaty of Paris Philippine–American War Territorial changes Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States for the sum of $20 million. Belligerents United States Cuban separatists Puerto Rican separatists Katipunan[1][2][3] Kingdom of Spain Commanders and leaders William McKinley Nelson A. Miles William R. Shafter George Dewey William T. Sampson Máximo Gómez Emilio Aguinaldo Apolinario Mabini Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Arsenio Linares y Pombo Manuel Macías y Casado Ramón Blanco y Erenas Strength Cuban Republic: 30,000 irregulars[4]:19 United States: 300,000 regulars and volunteers[4]:22 Spanish Army: 278,447 regulars and militia[4]:20 (Cuba), 10,005 regulars and militia[4]:20 (Puerto Rico), 51,331 regulars and militia[4]:20 (Philippines) Casualties and losses Cuban Republic: 10,665 dead[4]:20 United States Army: 345 dead, 1,577 wounded, 2,565 diseased[4]:67 United States Navy: 16 dead, 68 wounded[4]:67 Spanish Navy: 560 dead, 300–400 wounded[4]:67 Spanish Army: 3,000 dead or wounded 6,700 captured,[5](Philippines) 13,000 diseased[4] (Cuba) [show]v • d • eSpanish–American War Atlantic Ocean Theater Cuba–Puerto Rico Pacific Ocean Theater The Philippines – Guam [show]v • d • eNineteenth century Atlantic/Mediterranean conflicts involving the United States Quasi War Action of 1 January 1800 - Battle of Puerto Plata Harbor - Action of 12 October 1800 - Action of 25 October 1800 First Barbary War Action of 1 August 1801 - First Battle of Tripoli Harbor - Action of 22 June 1803 - Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor - Battle of Derne Chesapeake Affair Little Belt Affair War of 1812 Atlantic Naval Campaign Second Barbary War Battle off Cape Gata - Battle off Cape Palos Anti-Piracy Operations Patterson's Town Raid - Action of 31 August 1819 - Action of 26 August 1822 - Action of 9 November 1822 - Action of 2 March 1825 - Action of 23 October 1827 St. Johns Affair Second Seminole War Battle of Wahoo Swamp - Battle of Jupiter Inlet Veracruz Affair Mexican-American War Mosquito Fleet Campaign - Gulf Coast Theater Suppression of the Slave Trade Nicaraguan Rebellion Bombardment of San Juan del Norte Paraguayan Conflict Itapiru Incident - Paraguay expedition Reform War Battle of Anton Lizardo American Civil War Eastern Theater - Western Theater - Trans-Mississippi Theater - Lower Seaboard Theater - Battle of Cherbourg - Bahia Incident Sinking of the Maine Spanish-American War Cuban Campaign - Puerto Rican Campaign [show]v • d • eNineteenth century Asia/Pacific conflicts involving the United States American Indian Wars War of 1812 Battle of Valaparaiso Sumatran Conflicts Friendship Incident · Battle of Quallah Battoo Eclipse Incident · Bombardment of Quallah Battoo · Battle of Muckie Wilkes Expedition Battle of Malolo Capture of Monterey Mexican–American War California Campaign · Pacific Coast Campaign China Anti-Piracy Patrols Battle of Ty-ho Bay Puget Sound War Battle of Seattle · Battle of Port Gamble Second Opium War First Battle of Canton · Battle of the Pearl River Forts · Second Battle of Taku Forts American Civil War Pacific Coast Theatre · Capture of J. M. Chapman Cochinchina Campaign Bombardment of Qui Nhơn Japanese Conflict Pembroke Incident Battle of Shimonoseki Straits · Shimonoseki Campaign Formosan Conflict Rover Incident · Formosan Expedition Korean Conflict General Sherman Incident · Bombardment of the Selee River Forts · Battle of Ganghwa Mexico Anti-Piracy Patrols Battle of Boca Teacapan First Samoan Civil War Samoan crisis Second Samoan Civil War Siege of Apia · First Battle of Vailele · Battle of Falefa · Battle of Mangia · Third Battle of Vailele Spanish–American War Pacific Theater Philippine–American War Filipino Rebellion · Moro Rebellion Boxer Rebellion Battle of Peking · Battle of Tientsin The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States |
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WALTER LAFEBER
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was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the United States' most distinguished historians, a revisionist, of the nation's Foreign Relations.
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WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
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he engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as "Seward's Folly",
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SAN JUAN HILL
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a series of hills to the east of Santiago, Cuba running north to south and known as the San Juan Heights or in Spanish "Alturas de San Juan" before Spanish-American War of 1898.
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TREATY OF PARIS 1898
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signed on December 10, 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War.
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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
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) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer.[1] He was the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams and the son of President John Quincy Adams.
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ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE
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an organization established in the United States on June 15, 1898 to battle the American annexation of the Philippines
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FORAKER ACT
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established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico
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PLATT AMENDMENT
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defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations until the 1934 Treaty of Relations.
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OPEN DOOR POLICY
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a concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country
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JOHN HAY
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was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.
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