Imperialism Vocabulary Quiz

Imperialism

• A policy by which a nation is sovereign or has the final say on its own affairs

• The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

• A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.

• A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

Argued that to achieve world power a country needed a powerful navy.

• Sanford Dole

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Alfred T. Mahan

• Woodrow Wilson

The argument that the human species improves when more intelligent and resourceful people thrive and prosper, while weak and stupid people die out, is referred to as:

• Social Darwinism
• Social Gospel
• Linnaean Model
• Pinnacle of Creation

Took a naval expedition to Japan in order to negotiate a trade treaty

• Pan-Americanism

• Alfred T. Mahan

• Imperialism

• Matthew C. Perry

• Anglo-Saxonism

Competing with Joseph Pulitzer and published sensational stories in his newspapers.

• Marshall Field
• Louis Sullivan
• Frederick Law Olmsted
• William Randolph Hearst

Writers exaggerate or make up stories to attract readers

• muckrakers
• intervene
• yellow journalism
• expansion

Extreme pride or nationalism coupled with aggressive foreign policy

• Autonomy
• Jingoism
• Sphere of Influence
• Guerrilla

(Taft) A policy of joining the buiness interests of a country with its dipolmatic interests.  

• Open Door policy
• Sphere of Influence
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Jingoism

(McKinley) A policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other's sphere of influence

• Dollar Diplomacy
• Open Door Polciy 
• Intervene
• Sphere of Influence

A foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers

• Open door policy
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Sphere of Influence
• yellow journalism