Unit 5 Key Terms

Belief that the US should stay out of foreign conflicts.

• Jingoism

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Social Darwinsim

Belief that a country should expand its military, economic, and cultural influence over other countries.

• Isolationism

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

Americans saw ______ as a justification of imperialism by sending American government and culture beyond US borders.

• Manifest Destiny

• Neutrality

• Isolationism

• Social Darwinism

Used by Americans to justify imperialism by believing it was only natural that US exerts its control over "less fit" and "inferior" races of people.

• Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Darwinism

• Isolationism

Progressive and conservationist president known for trust-busting and who also authorized the building of Panama Canal. Foreign policy: Big Stick Diplomacy

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William H. Taft

• William McKinley

The belief that a country should intervene politically or economically to help or change another country

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Social Darwinism

• Interventionism

The policy of free trade in and for China suggested by the US

• Open-Door-Policy

• China Policy

• Imperialism Policy

• Closed-Door-Policy

America wanted to annex this territory to establish sugarcane plantations.

• Guam

• Puerto Rico

• Hawaii

• Cuba

US ship that exploded in Cuba that was blamed on Spain. One of the causes of the Span/Am War

• USS Lusitania

• USS Maine

• USS Oklahoma

• USS Arizona

A sensational type of writing that was often biased and gave false information. One of the causes of the Span/Am War

• Pink Journalism

• Blue Journalism

• Fake News

• Yellow Journalism