U.S. History, Imperialism Era, Vocabulary Pre-Test

Period during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the United States joined the rest of the world annexing other areas - ______

• intervention

• Age of Imperialism

• Progressive Era

• expansionism

The action of stronger countries dominating weaker ones mostly to the benefit of the stronger nations; military force is used when necessary - _______

• isolationism

• interventionism

• imperialism

• domination

The imperialistic idea that the United States should expand into the Caribbean and the Pacific - ________

• dictatorship

• expansionism

• imperialism

• annexation

A policy of interfering in the affairs of other countries for political or economic benefit - _______

• imperialism

• progressive

• interventionism

• annexation

A policy of avoiding foreign alliances or involvement in the affairs of other nations - _______

• joint resolutin

• expansionism

• social gospel

• isolationism

U.S. policy that warned Europe not to extend their influence in the Western Hemisphere - _______-

• Monroe Doctrine, 1823

• Manifest Destiny

• Second Organic Act

• The Expansion Act

A movement within the Protestant Christian church to solve social problems - ______

• imperialism

• Open Door Policy

• Christianism

• Social Gospel

The act of an existing country adding a territory that had been outside its control - ________

• annexation

• territorial claim

• protectorate

• interventionism

A string of islands - _______

• land mass

• archipelago

• imperialism

• annexation

Legislation passed by both houses of Congress by a simple majority in each house - _______

• expansionism

• interventionism

• joint resolution

• archipelago