Mabuce --America Becomes A World Power-Imperialism

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Practice of a nation of separating itself from the affairs of foreign countries.

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Isolationism

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Cornerstone of American foreign policy that told European powers to stay out of the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

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Monroe Doctrine

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Establishing colonies in foreign lands to economically benefit the “mother” country and to spread that nation’s culture and beliefs.

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Imperialism

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Policy of free trade among all spheres of influence/nations that was proposed by the United States to increase trading opportunities with European nations and China.

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Open Door Policy

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Editor of the New York Journal and pioneer of Yellow Journalism. Said: “You furnish the pictures, I’ will furnish the war!”

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William Randoplh Hearst

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Writer whose work focused on the importance of the existence of cheap unsettled land. Believed that America needed a frontier so that the US could continue to develop both economically and culturally.

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Urged the United States to acquire overseas territories, especially in the Pacific and for the US to build a Big Navy.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Group of soldiers in the Spanish-American War made up of cowboys, miners, college students, Native Americans, and policemen from all 45 states.

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Rough Riders

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Area in China under the control of foreign countries for economic reasons.

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Spheres of Influence

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Term used to describe the journalistic practice of exaggerating and fictionalizing stories to sell more newspapers.

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Yellow Journalism