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19 Cards in this Set
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Alfred T Mahan |
Admiral of Navy Urged government to compete with other powerful nations
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Imperialism |
Stronger nations take over smaller ones |
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Queen Lil |
Queen of Hawii, overthrown |
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Sanford B Dole |
Head of government of Hawii |
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John L Stevens |
"Hawiian pear is ripe, jst need to pick it" Supported revolution to overthrow queen lil |
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Pearl Harbor |
Naval Base made in Hawii |
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William Seward |
Secretary of state under Lincoln and Johnson Arranged to buy alaska from russia for 7.2 million |
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Jose Marti |
Cuban Poet and journalist, launched revolution in 1895 Organized cuban resistance against spain |
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Weyler |
General from spain Tried to crush Jose Mari rebellion by herding entire rural pupulation of central and western cuba into barbed wire concentration camps. Thousands died from hunger and disease |
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The De Lome Letter |
Private letter written by Spanish minister to US criticizing pres. McKinley callin him weak. |
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USS Maine Explodes |
Few days after De Lome, USS maine got blown up pissing off every american so we outrage. Basically took leash of us and we went to war.
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Asking for war |
McKinley asked congress to go to war, after a week, they said yes. |
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General George Dewey |
commadore gave command to open fire on Spanish fleet at Manila, the capital. We killed them like nothing |
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Emilio Aguinaldo |
led group of philipines to team up with US and take out Spain |
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Carribean War |
William T Sampson successefull sealed p the spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba |
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rough riders |
Volunteer cavalry unit under the command of Leanard Wood and TR |
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San Juan Hill |
Us papers declafed TR and roughriders hero of san juan hill |
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July 25 |
Invaded Puerto Rico |
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Treaty of Paris |
Gave america Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Phillippines |
