IMPERIALISM: US Becomes a World Power

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What was the phrase Roosevelt found to describe his method of accomplishing goals?

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speak softly and carry a big stick

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The explosion of the USS Maine

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rallied Americans against Spain

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Yellow Journalists were:

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newspaper reporters and illustrators who exaggerated stories in order to sell newspapers and fuel a war with Spain

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Roosevelt Corollary is also known as

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Big Stick Policy

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Imperialism is:

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system of building an empire by conquering other nations

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Why did Americans want to build the Panama Canal?

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Trading and Military Purposes

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When a strong country takes over a weaker country for economic, social or political reasons it is called

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imperialism

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Whose foreign policy goals were directed by the following principles:

"In reality, we lay equal emphasis on the fact that it is necessary to speak softly; in other words, that it is necessary to be respectful toward all people and scrupulously to refrain from wronging them, while at the same time keeping ourselves in condition to prevent wrong being done to us..."

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President Theodore Roosevelt

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The following statement describes what foreign policy objective employed by all of the early 20th century Presidents:

'The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must carry if she is to do her duty among the nations of the earth...'
Options: Dollar Diplomacy, Missionary Diplomacy, Isolationism, Big Stick Diplomacy

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Big Stick Diplomacy

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USS Maine sinks
-Rough Riders aid the U.S. military in achieving victory
-United States acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

The events above are related to which of the following?

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Spanish American War