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36 Cards in this Set
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What was the American attitude towards international developments in the 1870s and 1880s?
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Indifferent and Isolated
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What caused changes in America's attitude
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1.Economic Expansion
2.Yellow Press 3.Missionaries 4.Navy |
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who was the american clergyman who preached Anglo-Saxon superiority, called for stronger U.S. missionary efforts overseas, and put his ideas in a book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and its Present Crisis?
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Josiah Strong
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who was the american naval officer that wrote influential books promoting American overseas expansion by arguing that sea power was the key to world domination and advocating a big navy?
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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what valuable naval base was acquired by the US from the Hawaiin government in 1187?
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Pearl Harbor
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what was the remote Pacific site of a naval clash between the US and Germany in 1889?
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Samoan Islands
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what south american nation nearly came to blows with the US in 1892 over an incident involving the deaths of American sailors?
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Chile
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why did Grover Cleveland refuse to annex Hawaii? when?
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the native ruler (Queen Liliuokalani) unjustly deposed; 1893
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what did this white planter revolt against queen Liliuokalani set off a debate about?
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the wisdom and rightness of american overseas imperialism
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Who was the native Hawaiian ruler overthrown in a revolution?
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queen Liliuokalani
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who was the belligerent US secretary who used the monroe doctrine to pressure britian in the venezuelan boundary crisis?
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Olney
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what was the final result of the venezuela-guiana crisis with britain?
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strengthen the monroe doctrine
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why did americans first become concerned with the situation in cuba?
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americans sympathized w/ cuban rebels fighting for freedom
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who was the spanish general whose brutial tactics against Cuban rebels outraged American public opinion
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butcher weyler
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even before the sinking of the maine, what caused American public indignation at Spain to be whipped into a frenzy?
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Yellow Journalism accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba
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when did the Maine explode?
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1898
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what two groups opposed a war with Spain?
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business people and bankers
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even after the Maine exploded, why was the US slow to declare war on Cuba?
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President Mckinley was reluctant to go to war
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What amendment to the delcaration of war w/ Spain stated that the US would grant Cubans their freedom?
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the teller amendment
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as soon as the US declared war on Spain, why did Commodore George Dewey sail to the Philippine Islands in 1898, and whose May Day victory opened the doors to American imperialism in Asia?
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he was secretly ordered to go there by Theodore Roosevelt
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what group helped american forces in capturing manila?
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philippine insergeants
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who was the leader of this group
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emilio aguinaldo
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what enabled america's unprepared military forces to gain quick and easy victories?
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the confusion and weakness of Spain's army and navy
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who was the imperialist advocate,aggressive assistant navy secretary, and famous Rough RIder?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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who was the military commander of the rough riders, and later organized the efficient american military government of cuba?
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leonard wood
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what was the largest cause of american deaths in cuba?
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bad food disease and unsanitary conditions
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who was the american doctor who led the medical efforts to conquer yellow fever during uS occupation of Cuba?
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walter reed
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in addition to cuba what other spanish-owned caribbean colony was seized?
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puerto rico
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on what did President Mckinley base his decision to make the Philippines an american colony?
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combination of religious piety and material economic interest
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who was the leading democratic politicain whose intervention narrowly tipped the senate vote in favor of acquiring the Philippines in 1899?
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William Jennings Bryan
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what was the margin of approval to annex the Philippines in the senate?
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1
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who were two prominent americans who opposed the annexation of the Philippines?
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mark twain and william james
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why did groups of pro-imperialist americans argued that the Philippines should be seized?
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economic opportunity and patriotism
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what was the supreme court decisions in the insular cases regarding american constitutional law and rights in the US colonial possessions of Puerto Rico and the Philippines?
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the US constitution did not apply in all territories under the American flag
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what provided the US the right to intervene w/ troops and maintain military based in Cuba? When?
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Platt Amendment in 1901
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In what area of the world did the Spanish-American War make the US a full-fledged international power?
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East Asia
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