imperialism vocab
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- imperialism
- when a stonger country takes over a weaker country
- isolation
- policy of having little to do with foreign nations
- sphere of influence
- area in China where a foreign nation had special trading privelages and made laws for its own citizens
- alliance
- team up with another country
- foreign policy
- the way a country deals with other countries
- domestic policy
- the way a country deals with its own problems
- Great White Fleet
- U.S.'s ships that were painted white
- Seward's Folly
- wnated to expand the U.S. into the Pacific - wanted Alaska to become part of the U.S. (purchase of Alaska)
- Yukon
- territory in Alaska and part of Canada
- Treaty of Kanagawa
- granted American demands for kindly treatment of ship-wrecked sailors. It also opened up 2 Japanese ports to trade
- annex
- add on, such as territory
- Queen Liliuokalani
- Hawaiian Queen who tried to preserve the islands independence. In 1893, an American-backed revolution overthrew her
- Commodore Mathew Perry
- President Millard Fillmore sent him to negociate a treay with Japan. Japan ordered him to leave but he didn't
- Boxer Rebellion
- Boxers attacked forgeiners all over China because they thought foreigners were responsible for al of China's troubles
- Monroe Doctrine
- The U.S. would not get involved in European affairs <--tried to use to limit European influence in Latin America
- The Maine
- American battleship that went to Havana to protect American citizens and property. Then was blown up. It was the park of the American-Spanish war
- William Randolph Hearst
- publisher of the NY Journal and sent and artist to Spain which fanned war fever
- Joseph Pulitzer
- owner of "The World"
- yellow journalism
- exaggerated reporting that attracted readers
- "Butcher" Weyler
- Spanish governer of Cuba. He killed Cubans
- neutral
- choosing not to fight on either side in a war
- George Dewey
- commander of the Pacific fleet and fought in the Philippines
- Battle of San Juan Hill
- Americans destroyed Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor (one of the last battles)
- Rough Riders
- Roosevelt's voluntary regiment
- Platt Amendment
- limited Cuba's rights to make treaties or borrow money--gave U.S. control of enable base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- revolution
- change
- Walter Reed
- researched yellow fever and proved that Carlos Juan Finlay was correct
- yellow fever
- disease carried by mosquitos that many American soldiers contracted
- William Gorgas
- set out to destroy mosquitos breeeding grounds and that decreased the number of cases of yellow fever
- Army Corps of Engineers
- brigade that built the "Big Ditch" (Panama Canal)
- Panama Canal
- the 1st place where and ocean-going sea-ship traveled
- Pancho Villa
- a rebel leader who crossed the border into Mexico. He raided Columbus, New Mexico. He tried to overthrow the Mexican government
- General Pershing
- drove back the rebels