Group F: American Expansion USHGOV Vocabulary and Terms
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- Imperialism
- Policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations
- Spanish-American-Cuban War
- 1898 war that began when the United States demanded Cuba's independence from Spain
- Yellow Journalism
- style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the news
- De Lome Letter
- An 1898 diplomatic incident. The letter, which was intended to be private, was sent to his friend, Don Jose Canelejas, a Spanish official in Havana and was stolen from the Post Office in Havana and released by Cuban revolutionists to Hearst's newspaper. It insulted American President William McKinley.
- U.S.S. Maine
- U.S. warship that exploded off Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898
- Annexation
- the legal incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity
- Platt Amendment
- agreement claiming the UNited States' right to intervene in Cuban affairs
- Open Door Policy
- U.S. policy proposed in 1899 which stated that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with China
- Panama Canal
- canal through the Isthmus of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific
- Roosevelt Corollary
- United States claim of right to interfere in the affairs of Latin American countries
- Dollar diplomacy
- the term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.