| Term | Definition |
|---|
| imperialism | the practice of building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations |
| william h. seward | purchased alaska |
| isolationism | avodinging involvement in affairs of other countries |
| mckinley tariff | allowed all countries to ship sugar duty free to the us |
| meiji resoration | a period of modernization in Japan during which leaders invested heavily in industry and the military |
| spheres of influence | areas where foreign nations control trade and natural resources |
| townsend harris | negotiated a treaty with japan allowing trade with the united states |
| the open door policy | declared by john hay that all nations should have equal access to trade with china |
| boxer rebellion | chinese nationalists attacked foreigners in order to end china's involvement in china's affairs |
| yellow journalism | exaggeration of news stories in order to sell them |
| teller amendment | stated the us had no intention of taking control of cuba |
| george dewey | sailed into Manila Bay and destroyed Spain's Pacific fleet |
| rough riders | group of soliders organized by roosevelt |
| reason the spanish american war started | spanish minister called mckinley a weak leader |
| anti imperialist league | group of americans who opposed the creation of us colonial empire |
| platt amendment | limited cuba's rights to make treaties and allowed us to intervene in cuban affairs |
| philipine government control act | philippines would be ruled by an appointed govenor and two house legislatures |
| jones act | granted puerta ricans us citizenship |
| clayton bulwer treaty | called for two treaties to jointly build a canal |
| john hay | negotiated the hay pauncefote treaty with britain - they gave up their interest in the canal |
| hay herran treaty | us would pay $10 million and $250,000 a year for 99 years |
| philippe bunau varilla | engineer of the french canal complany |
| hay bunau varilla treaty | resembles they hay herran treaty but the canal was widned to 10 miles |
| panamca canal | opened on august 15, 1914 - cost $375 million |
| monroe doctorine | james monroe's statement warning european nations not to colonize or interfere in the americas |
| roosevelt corollary | addition to monroe doctorine that declared the us would police foreign affairs in the western hemisphere to keep europeans from intervening in the region |
| dollar diplomacy | tried to influence latin american governments through economic, not military, intervention |
| reason wilson rejected dollar diplomacy and imperialism | he believed the us had a moral obligation to promote democracy in latin america and did not like the idea of big business in foreign countries |
| francisco madero | started mexican revolution |
| porfirio diaz | fought against madero in mexican war - president of mexico for 30 years |
| reason for civil war in mexico | end to diaz' dictatorship |
| victoiano huerta | killed madero and took power as a mexican leader |
| venustiano carranza | led revolt against huerta and supported madero |
| francisco pancho villa | revolutionary leader who fought against huerta in the north |
| emiliano zapata | revolutionary leader who fought against huerta in the south |
| abc powers | argentina, brazil, and chile helped negotiate with wilson |
| john j pershing | was sent by wilson to capture pancho villa |
Combine with other sets
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace