Unit 7 Imperialism

Policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories

• Propaganda
• Alliances
• Imperialism
• Neutrality

Use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract the attention of readers

• Propaganda
• Yellow Journalism
• DeLome Letters
• Espionage

Letter that was stolen by American journalists from Cuba belittling the US Presidents- angered Americans

• Zimmerman Telegram
• De Lome Letter
• Yellow Journalism
• Propaganda

warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana Cuba 

• Luisitania
• USS Maine
• Titanic
• USS Alabama

series of conflicts between the US and Spain in 1898- in the end Guam and Puerto Rico will be US Territories, Cuba=independent and the Philippines are sold for 20 million

• Mexican American War
• Spanish American War
• WW1
• Phillipine American War

Treaty that ended the Spanish American War

• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Paris 1789
• Treaty of Paris 1898
• Adams Onis Treaty

Secretary of State under president Lincoln and Johnson (Seward) persuaded congress to purchase ???? (Seward's Ice Box) from Russia

• North Pole

• Northern Michigan

• Hawaii

• Alaska

A war fought from 1899 to 1903 to quell Filipino resistance to U.S. control of the Philippine Islands. Although often forgotten, it lasted longer than the Spanish-American War and resulted in more casualties. Filipino guerilla soldiers surrendered after their leader, Emilio Aguinaldo, was captured.

• Spanish American War

• Mexican American War

• Philippine American War

• Cuban War

opposed to the idea of American expansionism

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Imperialists
• Anarchists

President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

• Panama Canal
• Erie Canal
• Hudson Canal
• Sioux Locks