Becoming a World Power

The economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker nations

• protectorate
• imperialism
• Yellow Journalism
• jingoism

Theodore Roosevelt was chosen as McKinley's running mate because of his

• reform ideas
• skill in foreign diplomacy
• rise from poverty story
• charisma and war fame

Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace between

• Russia and Japan
• Russia and China
• Russia and Korea
• Japan and China

Sensational reporting, in which writers often exaggerated or made up stories, became known as

• protectorate writing
• jingoism
• Dollar Diplomacy
• yellow journalism

President Taft's foreign policy -- focused on economics, not military force

• Big Stick Diplomacy
• Imperialism
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Social Darwinist Diplomacy

Volunteer cavalry group that gained fame during the Spanish-American War

• Rough Riders
• Great White Fleet
• Spanish Troops
• 54th Massachusetts

Name for a territory when an imperial power allowed the local ruler to stay in control and protect him/her from invasion

• protectorate
• imperialism
• Panama Canal
• yellow journalism

In the late 1800s, the U.S. was building a large and modern navy to

• protect the U.S. from invasion
• conquer Latin American nations
• conquer islands in the Pacific
• avoid being shut out of foreign markets

American support for the Cuban rebels was fueled by

• desire to protect sugar cane plantations
• desire to acquire Cuba for America
• sensational stories published by rival papers
• fear of a Spanish Colony remaining so close to the U.S.

U.S. annexed this island (queen was overthrown) in 1898

• Puerto Rico
• Hawaii
• Phillippines
• Ellis Island