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WorksheetsOverseas Expansion Vocabulary
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was referred to as "Seward's Folly?"
Annexation of Hawaii
Purchase of Alaska
Making Cuba a protectorate
Annex means to...
add territory to a country
increase taxes
eat only meat and fish
What is a Sphere of Influence?
An area where a nation has special trading privileges (especially in China)
Period in which one nation is heavily influenced by others
Areas of land on which activists often tend to protest
What did the Treaty of Kanagawa accomplish?
Allowed countries to have boundaries in the ocean
Opened 2 ports and helped to supply ships
Get Hawaii and Alaska
True/False: The Boxer Rebellion was when the Chinese "Boxers" attacked the westerners to protest foreign influence.
True
False
The Roosevelt Corollary...
prohibited European investment in Latin America economies.
allowed the U.S. to get involved in Latin America.
remained popular in Latin America.
Yellow journalism is...
exaggerated stories meant to sell more newspapers
truthful and accurate reports of historical events
printed news stories on yellow paper
What happened to the USS Maine?
It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle
It blew up and was a major cause of the Spanish-American War
A great white shark ate it
Define Protectorate
A country whose affairs are controlled by another country
A country that controls their own affairs
A country whose affairs are controlled by the government
Define Isolationism
Policy of extending a nation’s role over other territories and countries
Spreading a nation’s territorial or economic control beyond it's borders
Staying out of other countries affairs
What did the open door policy allow?
Allowed foreign nations in China to trade freely in the other nations
Made all foreign nations in China stay to themselves
Caused the Boxer Rebellion in China
What is Imperialism?
Trading
The taking over a strong country by a weak country
The taking over of a weak country by a strong country
