Imperialism Vocab Review

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Wrote 'The Influence of Sea Power Upon History' and advocated for a strong Navy to elevate the U.S. as a world power.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Roosevelt's foreign policy using military force as international police power

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Big Stick Policy

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Effort in China to expel foreigners and eliminate foreign influence

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Boxer Rebellion

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Private letter from Spain's ambassador calling McKinley weak, leaked to U.S. newspapers.

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De Lome Letter

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Taft's foreign policy: investing in Latin America

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Dollar Diplomacy

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U.S. policy for colonies, resources, and naval bases to gain world power

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Expansionism

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Country's laws/actions towards another country

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Foreign Policy

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U.S. Senator supporting Imperialism.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Stronger nation dominates weaker ones economically, politically, culturally, and militarily to form an empire.

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Imperialism

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Secretary of State who called the Spanish-American War a "splendid little war" and created the Open Door Policy with China.

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John Hay