| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Joseph Pulitzer | "yellow journalsm" United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911) |
| William Randolph Hearst | "yellow journalism" sought to outdo Pulitzer by filling in journal with exaggerated tales ot personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, and an imaginary conquest of Mars |
| Yellow press | also called yellow journalism, a term used to describe the sensationalist newspaper writings of the time of the Spanish American war. They were written on cheap yellow paper. |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | head of Newport College ,wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" |
| Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers |
| Queen Liliukalani | annexed Pago Pago Samoa (Hawaii) 1889 |
| Teller Amendment | proclaimed that when the U.S. had overthrown Spanish meisrule, it would give the Cubans their freedom. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | got the Panama Canal for the U.S, modernized the U.S. navy, President who reformed government through the Square Deal, lead the Rough Riders, Hero of Spanish- American War |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | over through Spanish rulers to get control of the Phillipinos in 1898 |
| Rough Riders | volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War, The First United States Volunteer Calvary |
| Treaty of Paris | agreement signed by British and American leaders that stated the United States of America was a free and independent contry, ended Revolutionary war |
| America's disadvantages | dysentery, typhoid, and yellow fever. |
| Guantanamo Bay | Military base granted to the US in Cuba |
| Joseph Wheeler | appointed commander of Cuba after the war. |
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