Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
18 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Admiral in charge of the U.S. fleet in the Philippines
|
George Dewey
|
|
|
publisher of sensational news stories
|
William Randolph Hearst
|
|
|
Founder of the American Girl Scouts
|
Juliette Low
|
|
|
President known for his "dollar diplomacy"
|
William Howard Taft
|
|
|
"Rough Rider" who later became President
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
|
Indiana senator who ued arguments of racial superiority to justify expansionism
|
Albert J. Beveridge
|
|
|
Guerrillas on the island nation of _______ destroyed U.S. property to gain support for independence.
|
Cuba
|
|
|
The United States annexed _______ in 1898
|
Hawaii
|
|
|
Congress authorized a "guilt" payment of $25 million to ____ for the rights to the Canal Zone
|
Isthmus of Panama
|
|
|
The "Rough Riders" made _____ the site of the most famous incident of the Spanisht-American War.
|
the Philippine Islands
|
|
|
U.S. policy of maintaining stability in other countries by increasing investments in the economies of those countries.
|
Dollar Diplomacy
|
|
|
practice by which stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations
|
imperialism
|
|
|
area or country in which another nation has strong economic control
|
sphere of influence
|
|
|
addition of a new territory to an existing country
|
annexation
|
|
|
status of having the same trading rights in a country as other nations
|
most-favored nation
|
|
|
extreme nationalism marked by an aggressive foreign policy
|
jingoism
|
|
|
policy that gave equal access for commercial relations with China to all nations
|
Open Door Policy
|
|
|
policy that established the United States as "an international police power"
|
Roosevelt Corollary
|
