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The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century: Chapter 10

Terms in this set (19)

Imperialism
The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.
Alfred T. Mahan
An admiral in the US navy. He urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other nations.
William Seward
Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, Seward
arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.
Pearl Harbor
The kingdom's best port. The base
became a refueling station for American ships.
Sanford B. Dole
He headed the Hawaiian government after a revolt against Queen Liliuokalani
José Martí
A Cuban poet and journalist in
exile in New York, launched a revolution in 1895 against Spain.
Valeriano Weyler
Sent by Spain to Cuba to restore order
yellow journalism
Sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers.
U.S.S. Maine
President McKinley had ordered the ship to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect American property. On February 15, 1898, the ship blew up in the harbor of Havana. More than 260 men were killed.
George Dewey
The Commodore that gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital
Rough Riders
A volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore
Roosevelt.
San Juan Hill
A strategically important area that the Ninth and Tenth
Cavalries won.
The Treaty of Paris
On December 10, 1898, the United States and Spain met in Paris to agree on a treaty. At the peace talks, Spain freed Cuba and turned over the islands of Guam in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the West Indies to the United States. Spain also sold the Philippines to the United States for $20 million

Also started arguments centered on whether or not the United States had the right to annex the Philippines.
Foraker Act
Ended military rule and set up a civil government in the Caribbeans
Platt Amendment
States that:
• Cuba could not make treaties that might limit its independence or permit
a foreign power to control any part of its territory
• The United States reserved the right to intervene in Cuba
• Cuba was not to go into debt that its government could not repay
• The United States could buy or lease land on the island for naval stations
and refueling stations
protectorate
A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.
Emilio Aguinaldo
A rebel leader that believed
that the United States had promised independence.
John Hay
U.S. Secretary of State at the time, issued, in 1899, a series of policy statements called the Open Door notes.
Open Door notes
The notes were letters addressed to the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations share
their trading rights with the United States.
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