| A | B |
|---|
| isolationism | having little to do with foreign nations |
| imperialism | powerful countries controlling weaker countries |
| Matthew Perry | naval officer sent to Japan in the 1850's |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | Japan agreed to open 2 ports for trading |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaiian monarch forced to give up the throne |
| sphere of influence | area where foreign nations have trading privileges |
| Boxer Rebellion | uprising against foreigners in China |
| William Seward | purchased Alaska from Russia for the U.S. |
| expansionists | feared that American economy would collapse without foreign markets |
| Alfred Mahan | wanted a strong navy to protect American trading ships |
| Samoa | site of an American base and commercial port |
| Open Door Policy | protected American trading rights in China |
| Jose Marti | Cuban patriot who published the newspaper Patria |
| George Dewey | commander of the US Pacific fleet, destroyed Spanish fleet |
| Platt Amendment | addition to the Cuban constitution that limited Cuban independence |
| Rough Riders | First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment- Teddy Roosevelt |
| Yellow Journalism | sensational news stories- biased, untrue |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | leader of the fight for Filipino independence |
| Lola Rodriguez de Tio | poet, supported Cuban independence |
| Foraker Act | law set up new govern. in Puerto Rico, 1900 |
| Protectorate | a nation whose independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country |
| Armistice | agreement to stop fighting |
| 9th and 10th Cavalry | African American soldiers commanded by John Pershing |
| Battle of San Juan Hill | battle where troops united in Cuba |
| Isthmus | narrow strip of land that joins 2 larger bodies of water |
| Dollar diplomacy | Taft's plan of building strong economic ties to Latin America |
| substitute dollars for bullets | dollar diplomacy |
| Moral diplomacy | Wilson's goals to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, promote peace |
| Roosevelt Corollary | addition to the Monroe Doctrine- right to intervene in Latin America |
| William Gorgas | army physician who helped wipe out malaria and yellow fever |
| George Goethals | Colonel, army engineer, supervised Panama Canal building |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Mexican General, shot American citizens |
