Unit 5 Key Terms

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Belief that the US should stay out of foreign conflicts.

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Isolationism

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Belief that a country should expand its military, economic, and cultural influence over other countries.

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Imperialism

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Americans saw ______ as a justification of imperialism by sending American government and culture beyond US borders.

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Manifest Destiny

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Used by Americans to justify imperialism by believing it was only natural that US exerts its control over "less fit" and "inferior" races of people.

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Social Darwinism

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Progressive and conservationist president known for trust-busting and who also authorized the building of Panama Canal. Foreign policy: Big Stick Diplomacy

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Theodore Roosevelt

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The belief that a country should intervene politically or economically to help or change another country

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Interventionism

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The policy of free trade in and for China suggested by the US

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Open-Door-Policy

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America wanted to annex this territory to establish sugarcane plantations.

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Hawaii

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US ship that exploded in Cuba that was blamed on Spain. One of the causes of the Span/Am War.

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USS Maine

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A sensational type of writing that was often biased and gave false information. One of the causes of the Span/Am War.

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Yellow Journalism