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29 Cards in this Set
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isolationism
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A foreign policy in which a country tries to stay out of world affairs. POLICY OF NOT TAKING SIDES IN A WAR- US USES THIS WITH NEUTRALITY ACTS
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imperialism
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a country's policy of extending its rule over other countries or colonies; during the 1800s, europeans obtained raw materials and created markets for their goods using such a policy.
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Manifest Destiny
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belief that the United States should settle all the land from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts.
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Seward's Folly
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Critical name given to Secretary of State, William Seward's 1867 purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million from Russia. People believed it to be a worthless "icebox" until gold was discovered in 1897, later oil in 1968.
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sphere of influence
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A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation
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Open Door Policy
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1899- Policy proposed by U.S. to allow any nation (Europe, Japan, U.S.) to be allowed to trade in any other nation's sphere of influence in China
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Japan
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Features: Archipelago, mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, lack of fertile land and natural resources - Effects of Terrain: Need land and resources, difficult farming, use of terrace farming, use of the sea - Isolationism, Imperialism, Expansion
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Alaska
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bought from russia for 7.5million dollers. 1893
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Russia
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Features: Irregular Coastlines, lack of political boundaries, harsh winters - Effects of this Terrain: difficult to unify, isolated because of the Mongol occupation, Peter the Great attempts to "Westernize," access to the Black Sea - defeat / repel Napoleon, defeat / repel Nazi's - WWII
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Hawaii
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Wealthy American Plantation owners overthrow the Queen in 1893 with the help of U.S. marines. U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898.
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China
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Features: Huang He River, Yangzi River, Gobi Desert ,Himalaya Mountains isolate China from the West, Pacific Ocean - Effects of this Terrain: Great Wall of China contributes to isolation until the Silk Roads increase trade - Explorations of Zheng He
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Purchase of Alaska
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Critical name given to Secretary of State, William Seward's 1867 purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million from Russia. People believed it to be a worthless "icebox" until gold was discovered in 1897, later oil in 1968
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Annexation of Hawaii
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50th state. first island state
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Boxer Rebellion
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anti foreign rebellion in China; attempt by Chinese natives to push out foreign influence
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President Millard Fillmor
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13th President of the United States (1850–1853) started to "look over seas"
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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American naval commander sent by the president to open Japan to trade in 1853
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Sec. of State William Seward
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As Johnson's Secretary of State, 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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Queen Liliuokalani
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was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii
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Isolation
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Foreign policy of having little or nothing to do with other nations
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President Grover Cleveland
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was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States
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President William McKinley
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dominated national politics until the 1930s. He also led the nation to victory in 100 days in the Spanish–American War
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Sec. of State John Hay
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Secretary of State John Hay first articulated the concept of the “Open Door” in China in a series of notes in 1899-1900
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Boxers
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The Righteous Order of Harmonious Fists"--led a failed Chinese rebellion against foreign domination in 1900
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White Mans Burden
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poem by Rudyard Kipling, about"white man's burden" as a characterisation for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.
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Yellow Journalism
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sensational style of newspaper reporting which played on peoples emotions and helped influence events. Major cause of Spanish American War
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Imperialism
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a country's policy of extending its rule over other countries or colonies; during the 1800s, europeans obtained raw materials and created markets for their goods using such a policy.
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Markets
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places where goods are sold
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Trade
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exchanging one thing for another
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Social Darwinism
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19th century philosophy founded by Herbert Spencer; applied the laws of natural selection to explain the differences in human social classes
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