| A | B |
|---|
| USS Maine | ship blown up in the Havana Harbor |
| Monroe Doctrine | "hands off"-Europe can't colonize in Western Hempishere |
| Imperialism | stronger nation controls a weaker nation |
| Seward's Folly | Alaska |
| Arbitration | third party listens to a dispute and reaches a settlement |
| "the Butcher" | General Weyler |
| W.R. Hearst | practiced yellow journalism |
| yellow journalism | sensational headlines and stories |
| Open Door Policy | allows the US to have access to China's trade policy |
| President Taft | "dollar diplomacy" |
| dollar diplomacy | use money and not bullets to help influence nations |
| factors for expansion | economic,nationalism military,religion/humanitarian |
| annex | join a new territory to an existing country |
| jingoism | national pride and desire for an aggressive foreign policy |
| Philippines | location of the Spanish-American War's first action |
| spheres of influence | areas of political and economic control |
| Roosevelt Corollary | extension of Monroe Doctrine |
| anti-Imperialist arguments | moral,political,racial,economic |
| Great White Fleet | US Navy |
| President Theodore Roosevelt | President who intervened in countries that were of economic and strategic interest to him |
| Rough Riders | Teddy Roosevelt's troops |
| yellow fever | disease associated with Panama Canal |
| banana republic | countries in Central America |
| Teller Amendment | US would not annex Cuba |
| Platt Amendment | Cuba could not enter foreign agreements/US must have 2 naval bases and may intervene when necessary |
