Imperialism Vocabulary

Belief held by 19th century Americans that the US was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

• Expansionism

• Imperialism

• Protectorate

• Moral Diplomacy

the policy of extending a nation’s power and control over a weaker country through economic, political, or military means

• Protectorate

• Expansionism

• Imperialism

• Moral Diplomacy

urged government officials to build up American naval power & establish naval bases in the Caribbean in order to compete with other powerful nations

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Emilio Aunginaldo

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

Conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States; Fought mainly for the issue of Cuban independence from Spain.

• Spanish-American War
• Boxer Rebellion

• Mexican-American War
• Angelo-Saxionism

style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure and enrage

readers

• White Man's Burden

• Open Door Notes

• Rough Riders

• Yellow Journalism

ship sent to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting; it mysteriously exploded and sank in 1898

• Monroe Doctrine

• Panama Canal

• USS Maine

• Roosevelt Corollary

a volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt that served in the Spanish-American War.

• Boxer Rebellion

• Rough Riders

• Protectorate

• Monroe Doctrine

a series of provisions that the US insisted Cuba add to its new constitution, commanding Cuba to stay out of debt and giving the US the right to intervene in the country and the right to buy or lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations

• Platt Amendment

• Moral Diplomacy

• Treaty of Paris 1898

• Monroe Doctrine

attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to remove foreign influence from China

• Boxer Rebellion
• Expansionism

• Spanish American War

• Rough Riders

an artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• Suez Canal
• Gulf of Panama
• Amazon River
• Panama Canal