Unit 4 Imperialism/WWI

Stronger nations extend economic, political, and/or military control over weaker territories

• imperialism
• foreign policy
• Spain
• big stick diplomacy 

Poem written in response to the US conquest of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War

• The Jungle of 1906
• Yellow Journalism
• The White Man's Burden
• muckraker

British writer who wrote "The White Man's Burden"

• Upton Sinclair
• Rudyard Kipling
• Theodore Roosevelt 
• Ida Tarbell

He negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867

• William Taft
• Colonel Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• William Seward

Newspapers that printed untrue stories about the harsh treatment shown towards Cubans in concentration camps by the Spanish

• New York Times
• Yellow Journalism
• blue book journals
• US Times

US battleship that exploded while anchored in a Cuban harbor

• UUS Maine
• USS Maine
• Massachusetts
• USS Texas

Year that USS Maine exploded while anchored in a Cuban harbor

• August 12, 1882
• February 15, 1898
• February 10, 1900
• March 12, 1901

Why did US citizens want to go to war with Spain after USS Maine exploded 

• Spain invaded their territory
• newspapers blamed Spain
• congress told them to
• they were tired of Spain bullying them

Volunteers for the war against Spain

• nationalist
• rough riders
• boxers
• exodusters

He led rough riders up Kettle and San Juan Hills in Cuba

• Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
• Samuel Gompers
• Upton Sinclair
• Eugene Debs