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| Reverend Josiah Strong and his book Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis | author and book that inspired missionaries to convert people overseas to Christianity |
| yellow journalism or "yellow press" | the lurid practice of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst that whetted the popular taste for excitement abroad |
| Theodore Roosevelt and Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge | Americans who interpreting Darwinism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and the fit |
| Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan and his book of 1890 called The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 | this author and his book in this year argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance |
| new steel navy | development of this focussed attention of American overseas |
| James G. Blaine and the "Big Sister" policy | aimed to rally the Latin American nations behind U.S. leadership and to open their markets to Yankee traders |
| 1889, Pan-American Conference | date and event that was held in Washington and helped to get some econ. cooperation through reciprocal tariff reduction between U.S. and Latin America |
| Samoan Crisis, 1889 | the American and German navies nearly came to blows in this year during this event (place) in the South Pacific |
| New Orleans Crisis with Italy, 1891 | the lynching of eleven Italians in this southern city in this year almost brought Americans to the brink of war with Italy |
| Valparaiso Crisis with Chile, 1892 | American demand on this country after the deaths of 2 American sailors made war seem inevitable between it and the U.S. in this year, was eventually settled when US power forced them to pay an indemnity |
| Pribilof Islands dispute with Canada, 1893 | arguement between US and this country over seal hunting near these islands off the coast of Alaska was resolved by arbitration in this year |
| Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain, Venezuela and British Guiana, Monroe Doctrine | from 1895-96, these two countries, one controlled by Britain, finally erupted in arguement when gold was found in disputed territory and the U.S. who disliked Britain got in involved over a violation of what? |
| Grover Cleveland | president during Venezuelan crisis |
| Richard Olney | secretary of state under Cleveland |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Dutch Boers, South Africa, Wilhelm supported and congratulated the Dutch | who (and why) Britain made arbitration with, in Venzuela after an unarmed group of 600 British raiders was captured by ______ ______s in _______ |
| the era of "patting the Eagle's head" called the Great Repprochement replaced the era of "twisting the lion's tail" | the British adopted this new policy of friendship called ____ replacing ________ toward US/ reconciliaton occured as Britain realized the importance of this as European powers betrayed them |
| 1887, Pearl Harbor | the year of this treaty with the native gov. of Hawaii that ensured priceless naval base rights at this place |
| Queen Liliuokalani | last native ruler of Hawaii who was deposed by American revolutionaries in 1893 |
| 1898 | annexation of Hawaii was put off until this year |
| sugar | rising tariff prices over this product motivated whites to "revolt" and ask for annexation to US |
| Cuba | this country revolted against Spain in 1895 and were crippled by US tariff of 1894 on sugar |
| Insurrectos | Cuban revolutionaries who adopted a scorched earth policy and torched agricultural fields and passenger trains in hopes of driving the Spanish out of Cuba |
| scorched-earth policy | plan that attempted to rid Cuba of its oppressor Spain by creating mass destruction |
| shipping-routes | Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced American _______ in the West Indies and the Gulf |
| "Butcher" Weyler | came to Cuba in 1896 and undertook to crush rebels by forcing them into reconcentration camps so they could not assist the insurrectos |
| concentration camps | Cuban citizens were forced into these where many of them died for lack of sanitation |
| Cleveland | president during Cuban revolt |
| "scoops" | info. that yellow journalists sought out when looking for sensational stories |
| Frederick Remington | gifted artist sent to Cuba by Hearst to make sketches of atrocities even when none existed |
| "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war" | Hearst's famous quote to Remington |
| Journal | the formal name of Hearst's newspaper |
| Dupuy de Lome | the Spanish minister in Washington who was forced to resign after a bristling letter he had written about President Mckinley was stolen and published by Hearst |
| the Maine | battleship sent to Cuba to evacuate Americans if necessary/ its explosion was blamed on Spanish officials in Cuba |
| February 9, 1898 | date of the Maine explosion |
| 260 | number of people killed in the Maine explosion |
| Aloha Oe/ Farewell to thee | most famous song written by Liliuokalani and played countless times for departing tourists |
| 1976 | year when the truth about the Maine was almost completely proven |
| Admiral H.G. Rickover | found evidence that Spanish commission had been right in 1898 and the Maine had exploded due to spontaneous combustion in a coal bunker next to a powder magazine |
| Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain! | battle cry of those who wanted to go to war with Spain |
| jingoes | insulting name given to America by contemptuos Spaniards |
| McKinley | president during the Maine explosion |
| Havana Harbor | location of the Maine explosion |
| "Wobbly Willie" | nickname given to McKinley by jingoes |
| Teller Amendment, 1898 | (date)this proviso claimed to the world that once US overthrew Spanish misrule in Cuba, it would give the Cubans their freedom |
| John D. Lang, Theodore Roosevelt | easygoing secretary of the navy who was ever-watchful of his assistant __________ |
| George Dewey | commander of the American Asiatic Squadron at Hong Kong that sailed to Philippines and destroyed a ten ship Spanish fleet there |
| Manila, Philippines | location of Dewey's destruction of a ten ship Spanish fleet |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | part-Chinese leader in charge of American reinforcements to Philippines |
| "Crossroads of the Pacific" | another "name" for Hawaii |
| Admiral Cervera | leader of Spanish warships sent to Cuba after Dewey's victory at Manilla Bay |
| General Shafter | overweight and useless leader of American fleet sent to drive out Cervera |
| Rough Riders | American volunteers who were part of the invading army on Cervera consisting of cowboys, polo players, and convicts |
| Leonard Wood | commander of Rough Riders |
| Roosevelt | principal organizer of Rough Riders who had resigned from Navy Department to take charge of fighting |
| "Wood's Weary Walkers" | nickname for Rough Riders too eager for glory |
| San Juan Hill and El Caney near Santiago | location of fighting between Rough Riders and Spaniards in Cuba |
| USS Oregon | one of the more powerful American cruisers in Cuba |
| Gen. Nelson Miles | leader of American fleet sent to Puerto Rico |
| August 12, 1898 | date of armistice with Spain |
| malaria,typhoid, dysentery, yellow fever, embalmed beef | some causes of American soldiers' suffering |
| round-robin | document signed in circular form so no one person can be IDed as first signer and punished |
| Paris | location of negotiations where US agreed to pay $20 million to Spain for the Philippines |
| Anti-Imperialist League | group against the annexation of the Philippines and world expansionism |
| Bryan | made an unexpected move when he convinced fellow Democrats to vote for the treaty with Spain and help out McKinley administration |
| Foraker Act of 1900 | granted Puerto Ricans a limited amount of popular government by Congress |
| Insular Cases | in this Supreme court declared that the Constitution did not necessarily extend with full force to the newly acquired Puerto Rico and Philippines |
| Platt Amendment (1901) | hated restriction that made Cubans agree not to impair their independence by treaty or contracting a debt beyond their resources and allowed US to intervene to restore order and protection and last promised 2 naval stations in Cuba |
| Guantanamo | eventually only one naval station leased to US by Cuba |
| Walter Reed | doctor who performed experiments and eventually helped to wipe out yellow fever in Havana and Southern US |
| Elihu Root | took over war department and set up a War College that would later pay off in WWI |
| Gen. Joseph Wheeler | a former Confederate who was given a command in Cuba |
| 1917 | year that Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship |
| Gloucester | name of the US warship that landed in Puerto Rico to take over the island in 1898 |
| Treaty of Paris, 1898 | ended the Spanish-American War |
| 1899 | year the US acquired the Philippines |
| Africa | continent divided by European powers in the 1880's |
| jingo | a person who favored a highly agressive foreign policy characterized by colonization and war |
