Chapter 10 America Claims an Empire Visual Vocabulary

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1. A U. S. naval leader who urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other powerful nations.

2. The U. S. policy of using the nation’s economic power to exert influence over other countries.

3. Messages sent by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, asking the countries not to interfere with U. S. trading rights in China.

4. The policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.

5. An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened in 1914.

6. A volunteer cavalry regiment, commanded by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, that served in the Spanish-American War.

7. U. S. Secretary of State that arranged to buy Alaska from the Russians for 7. 2 million.

8. Legislation passed by Congress in 1900, in which the U. S. ended military rule in Puerto Rico and set up a civil government.

9. 1898; The treaty ending the Spanish-American War, in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the islands of Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and sold the Philippines to the United States for 20 million.

10. A U. S. warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898.

11. A Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York that organized Cuban resistance against Spain; died in 1895 fighting for Cuban independence.

12. The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers.

13. An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, under which the U. S. claimed the right to protect its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.

14. Headed the government in Hawaii after the U. S. overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in the late 1890’s.

15. U. S. Commodore that gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital; he and his men destroyed every Spanish ship there in May 1898.