imperialism and Foreign Wars
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- War in the Caribbean
- US blockaded Cuba, sealing up a Spanish fleet in the Harbor of Santiago de Cuba
- Valeriano Weyler
- Spain sent him to Cuba to restore order after the revolt
- Panama Canal
- US bought from French company for $40 million
- nationalism
- a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
- manifest destiny
- the overall destiny of the US was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and Mexican territory
- Boxer rebellion
- the Chinese didn't want foreign influence in China and tried to kick all the European influence out
- Pearl Harbor
- Hawaii allowed the US to build a naval base at their best port
- annex
- to incorporate a territory into an existing political unit, such as a state or nation
- U.S.S. Maine
- what started a war with Spain
- Treaty of Fort Laramie
- provided various Native American nations control of the Central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains that stretched roughly from the Arkansas River north to Canada
- Queen Liliuokalani
- last queen of Hawaii who surrendered to the surperior force of the US
- "Fifty Four Forty or Fight!"
- fight slogan for James K. Polk's presidential platform that called for the annexation of the Oregon Territory
- Texas Revolution
- Texas rebelled against Mexican control, striving to be the Lone Star Republic
- Rough Riders
- a volunteer calvary under the commands of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt
- protectorate
- a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power
- Winfield Scott
- general that helped with the invasion of Mexico
- imperialism
- the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories
- Sam Houston
- defeated Santa Anna in the battle of Saint Jacinto, killed 630 people in 18 min.
- Treaty of Paris
- ceasefire between the US and Spain
- Black Hawk War
- started in Illinois and spread to Wisconsin territory. Ended when Illinois' militia members slaughtered more than 200 Sauk and Fox people
- Gasden Purchase
- established the current borders of the lower 48 states
- Jose Marti
- Cuban poet and journalist who launched a Cuban Revolution
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande order for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the US
- Mormons
- religious communtiy that would play a major role in settling of the West
- Foraker Act
- ended the military rule and set up civil governments in Puerto Rico
- Santa Fe trail
- 780 miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Roosevelt Corollary
- an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US would now use force to protect its economic insurance in Latin America
- land grants
- Mexico gave US land in return, Americans had to obey Mexican laws and observe the official religion of Roman Catholisism
- Dollar Diplomacy
- policy of using the US government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- rebel leader of the Phillipines
- Phillipine-American War
- Feb. 1899 the Phillipinos rose in revolt and the US imposed its authority on colonies that were fighting for freedom
- Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Emilliano Zapata
- led the Mexican Rebellion
- Oregon Trail
- started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Portland, Oregon. used by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman to set up mission schools for converting Native Americans to Christianity
- materialism
- development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy
- Alamo
- 1835, Texans attacked the Mexican forces and their first step towards Texas's freedom from Mexico
- Brigham Young
- moved his mormon followers beyond the boundaries of the US which were north to Nebraska
- Open Door Notes
- letters addressed to the leaders of imperialist nations that the nations share their trading rights with the US
- John Hay
- US secretary of state who issued the Open Door Notes
- Platt Amendment
- US reserves the right to intervene in Cuba, Cuba can not make treaties that might limit its independence, Cuba was not to go into debt, US could buy or lease land on the island for naval stations and refueling stations
- War in the Phillipines
- George Dewey gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet in Manila, the Phillipine capital