US Foreign Policy & Imperialism early 1900s

Social thought about the responsibility to civilize the inferior races of the world

• Manifest Destiny

• Enlightenment

• Social Darwinism

• Progressives

Americans overthrow Queen Liluokalani and annex this territory in 1898

• Panama

• Cuba

• Phillipines

• Hawaii

In 1899, USA declared an Open Door Policy to allow free trade by any nation in any port of this country.

• China

• Mexico

• Panama

• Cuba

A US victory that freed Cuba and the Philippines.

• Spanish-American War

• Mexican-American War

• WWI

• Caribbean War

Gave the US police powers to protect Latin America from European imperialism

• Treaty of Paris

• Alien & Sedition Acts

• Open Door Policy

• Roosevelt Corollary

This Canal was built to link the Atlantic & Pacific oceans and make naval & commercial shipping efficient.

• Erie

• Suez

• Panama

• Trans-Atlantic

A region over which a country has significant cultural, economic, military, or political influence

• Sphere of Influence

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Segregation

• Assimilation

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin America.

• Lend Lease Act

• Urbanization

• Square Deal

• Big Stick Diplomacy

Sensationalized news in media publishing to attract readers and increase circulation.

• Open Door Policy

• Yellow Jouranlism

• Assimilation

• Sphere of Influence

Which was not acquired by the US during the Gilded Age

• Hawaii

• Puerto Rico

• Guam

• California