History

conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.

• Spanish American War

• USS Maine

• De Lome Letter

• Rough Riders

a second-class battleship built between 1888 and 1895

• USS Maine

• De Lome Letter

• Rough Riders

• Yellow Journalism

the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt

• Rough Riders

• Yellow Journalism

• Platt Amendment

• Monroe Doctrine

criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd

• De Lome Letter

• Rough Riders

• Yellow Journalism

• Platt Amendment

a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.

• Yellow Journalism

• Platt Amendment

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention

• Platt Amendment

• Monroe Doctrine

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Imperialism

warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Platt Amendment

• Imperialism

the practice of promising American financial support, either through federal loans or private business participation, in other countries

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny

• US Annexation of Hawail

stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Monroe Doctrine

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Walmart

the expansion of American political, economic, cultural, media, and military influence beyond the boundaries of the United States of America.

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Manifest Destiny

• US Annexation of Hawail