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- hay bunau varilla treaty
- resembles they hay herran treaty but the canal was widned to 10 miles
- yellow journalism
- exaggeration of news stories in order to sell them
- monroe doctorine
- james monroe's statement warning european nations not to colonize or interfere in the americas
- john j pershing
- was sent by wilson to capture pancho villa
- william h. seward
- purchased alaska
- reason wilson rejected dollar diplomacy and imperialism
- he believed the us had a moral obligation to promote democracy in latin america and did not like the idea of big business in foreign countries
- dollar diplomacy
- tried to influence latin american governments through economic, not military, intervention
- venustiano carranza
- led revolt against huerta and supported madero
- philipine government control act
- philippines would be ruled by an appointed govenor and two house legislatures
- mckinley tariff
- allowed all countries to ship sugar duty free to the us
- reason the spanish american war started
- spanish minister called mckinley a weak leader
- boxer rebellion
- chinese nationalists attacked foreigners in order to end china's involvement in china's affairs
- hay herran treaty
- us would pay $10 million and $250,000 a year for 99 years
- panamca canal
- opened on august 15, 1914 - cost $375 million
- abc powers
- argentina, brazil, and chile helped negotiate with wilson
- emiliano zapata
- revolutionary leader who fought against huerta in the south
- reason for civil war in mexico
- end to diaz' dictatorship
- george dewey
- sailed into Manila Bay and destroyed Spain's Pacific fleet
- victoiano huerta
- killed madero and took power as a mexican leader
- spheres of influence
- areas where foreign nations control trade and natural resources
- roosevelt corollary
- addition to monroe doctorine that declared the us would police foreign affairs in the western hemisphere to keep europeans from intervening in the region
- clayton bulwer treaty
- called for two treaties to jointly build a canal
- philippe bunau varilla
- engineer of the french canal complany
- rough riders
- group of soliders organized by roosevelt
- meiji resoration
- a period of modernization in Japan during which leaders invested heavily in industry and the military
- francisco pancho villa
- revolutionary leader who fought against huerta in the north
- john hay
- negotiated the hay pauncefote treaty with britain - they gave up their interest in the canal
- isolationism
- avodinging involvement in affairs of other countries
- the open door policy
- declared by john hay that all nations should have equal access to trade with china
- francisco madero
- started mexican revolution
- jones act
- granted puerta ricans us citizenship
- imperialism
- the practice of building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations
- porfirio diaz
- fought against madero in mexican war - president of mexico for 30 years
- teller amendment
- stated the us had no intention of taking control of cuba
- platt amendment
- limited cuba's rights to make treaties and allowed us to intervene in cuban affairs
- anti imperialist league
- group of americans who opposed the creation of us colonial empire
- townsend harris
- negotiated a treaty with japan allowing trade with the united states