Module 6 - American Imperialism

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

• Annexation

• Superiority

• Imperialism

• Expansion

The action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission

• World Domination
• Appropriation
• Annex
• Imperialism

The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers

• Story Telling

• Muckraking

• Yellow Journalism

• Exaggeration

Add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation

• Imperialism

• Annex

• Appropriation

• World Domination

A cease-fire agreement

• Treaty

• Armistice

• Truce

• Pact

A payment levied on the import, export, manufacture, or sale of goods; tax or tariff

• Duty

• Tax

• Tariff

• Payment

Best port in the Hawaiian kingdom; Naval base off the coast of Hawaii

• Havana

• Santiago de Cuba

• San Juan

• Pearl Harbor

A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power

• Territory

• Colony

• Protectorate

• Province

The US policy of using the nation’s economic power to exert influence over other countries

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Seward’s Folly

• Seward’s Icebox

• Open Door Notes

An extension of the Monroe Doctrine under which the United States claimed the right to protect its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Wilson’s 14 Points

• Platt Amendment