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Opposition to the idea of one country ruling or having a lot of power or influence over another country

• Imperialism

• Anti-Imperialism

• Pro-imperialism

• Anti-Colonization

The practice of spreading a nation’s power and might using economic, political, and military power.

• Exploit

• Imperialism
• Dollar Diplomacy

• Yellow Journalism

• Anti-imperialism

Taft’s foreign policy that American businesses could increase their trade and profits, and countries in Latin America could then rise out of poverty and social disorder

• Exploit

• Imperialism

• Yellow Journalism

• Anti-imperialism

• Dollar Diplomacy

The act of using someone unfairly for your own advantage

• Yellow Journalism

• Exploit

• Imperialism

• Anti-imperialism

• Dollar Diplomacy

6. What did anti-imperialists mean when they said that “imperialism is hostile to liberty?”

• Imperialism promotes individual freedoms and self-determination
• Cuban rebels hoped that the destruction of American business interests would leas to American intervention in the war.

• Seizing overseas foreign territories and ruling over the peoples who lived there goes against the core American values of freedom and democracy.

• Imperialism is hostile to liberty because it restricts individual freedoms and self-determination.

6. Which raw materials can be harvested in Cuba? Hawaii? 

• C: Bananas, Pineapples

  H: Pears, Timber, Coal

• C: Sugar cane, Bananas, Pineapples

  H: Sugarcane

• C: Sugarcane

  H: Sugar cane, Bananas, Pineapples

• C: Sugarcane

  H: Timber, Coal, Coconuts

6. What are the three main beliefs of Imperialists? 

• Superiority of American culture,

  The American economy needs overseas markets, The US needs a large navy for security with bases overseas.

• Technological inferiority advancements over Cuba, Isolation, Economic decline amendments to lessen poverty and slavery

• Cultural assimilation, Diplomatic relations, Social equality for Cubans, Women, Native Americans

• Military weakness, Limited resources, Political instability for all parts of America

True or False:

These are the main reasons the US wants to control Hawaii:

-US opens a military base on Samoa.

-Hawaii is convenient for restocking supplies on ships in the Pacific Ocean.

-US businessmen discover that Hawaii is good for growing sugarcane.

• 
  True

• False

True or False:

These are the main reasons that America wants to gain control over Hawaii:

-Superiority of American culture.

-The American economy needs overseas markets.

-The US needs a large navy for security with bases overseas.

• False

• True

How was the US involved in the collapse of the Cuban economy?

• The US government provided humanitarian aid and support to the Cubans in return for sugar exports.

• The US government encouraged foreign investments over Cuba.

• The US government signed a special peace treaty with Cuba to protect them from Spain.

• The US government passed a sugar tariff which affected the Cuban sugar exports to the US.