Vocab Quiz 23

The right for the US to intervene in Cuban affairs anytime and allowed for a US navy base.

• Platt Amendment

• Rough Riders

• Imperialism

They believed that Americans should not deny other people the right to govern themselves.

• Anti - Imperialist League

• Yellow Journalism

• Rough Riders

Newspapers would attract readers with stories with exaggerated news about Spanish cruelty.

• Rough Riders

• Yellow Journalism

• Platt Amendment

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

• Platt Amendment

• Rough Riders

• Imperialism

First US volunteer cavalry with recruits of cowboys, miners, college students, etc.

• Rough Riders

• Platt Amendment

• Yellow Journalism

This doctrine would prevent European intervention in latin America and the US act as policemen in the region

• Roosevelt Corollary

• open door policy

• boxer rebellion

This means that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with China

• Boxer Rebellion

• Spheres of Influence

• Open Door Policy

Chinese resentment toward foreigners attitude of culture superiority led to a violent uprising

• panama canal

• boxer rebellion

• roosevelt corollary

the shortcut that would connect the Atlantic and pacific oceans

• panama canal

• boxer rebellion

• spheres of influence

areas where foreign nations claimed special rights and economic privileges.

• boxer rebellion

• spheres of influence

• roosevelt corollary