Chp 6 Imperialism

What did NOT motivate U.S. Imperialist policies?

• Economic opportunity (resources & markets)

• Increased racial equality (white man’s burden ideology)

• Competition (with Europe)

• Manifest Destiny (entitled)

Definition: policy of territorial or economic growth

• Expansionism

• Reconcentration

• Yellow journalism

• Anti-imperialist

Definition: principle of U.S. policy that intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a hostile act against the U.S.

• Roosevelt Corollary
• Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny
• Good Neighbor Policy

Definition: policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion of other territories and peoples

• isolationism
• nationalism
• colonialism
• imperialism

Definition: a state that is controlled and protected by another

• territory
• dominion
• protectorate
• colony

Definition: to attach, append or add, especially to something larger or more important; to incorporate territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.

• merge
• attach
• incorporate
• annexation

He was a Naval commander who pushed for expanding the Navy to prepare the U.S. for involvement worldwide

• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• Alfred Mahan

He was a Cuban exile who lobbied for U.S. intervention in Cuba

• Fidel Castro
• Che Guevara
• Raul Castro
• Jose Marti

It was a sensationalized form of newspaper reporting.

• Exaggeration
• Tabloid journalism
• Yellow journalism
• Sensationalism

The U.S. made Cuba add this to their constitution making Cuba a U.S. protectorate.

• Platt Amendment
• Monroe Doctrine
• Treaty of Paris
• Havana Declaration