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| Imperialism | outward looking foreign policy where a strong country seeks to dominate weaker nations politically, economically, or militarily |
| Monroe Doctrine | 19th century foreign policy that had kept America isolated from Europe and focused on the Western Hemisphere |
| Yellow Journalism | sensationized accounts of Spanish brutality in Cuba |
| U.S.S. Maine | American ship destroyed in Cuba, blamed on the Spanish and trigger of Spanish American War |
| 1898 | transitional year in America's shift to imperialism, because it is the year of the Spanish American War |
| Protectorate | status of Cuba following the Spanish American War |
| U.S. Territories | Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico become this after the Spanish American War |
| Russia | country U.S. purchased Alaska from in 1867 |
| William Seward | Secretary of State responsible for arranging the purchase of Alaska |
| Moral/Missionary Diplomacy | policy associated with Woodrow Wilson |
| Dollar Diplomacy | policy associated with William Howard Taft |
| Big Stick Diplomacy | policy associated with Theodore Roosevelt |
| Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | another name for Big Stick Diplomacy |
| Boxer Rebellion | anti-foreign revolution in China |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | leader of the Filipino revolution movement |
| Open Door Policy | policy of free trade and Chinese territorial integrity |
| John Hay | author of the Open Door Notes |
| Platt Amendment | proposed that the U.S. would become a protectorate of Cuba follow the Spanish American War |
| Teller Amendment | proposed that the U.S. did not seek to occupy Cuba upon the conclusion of the Spanish American War |
| Rough Riders | Teddy Roosevelt's regiment during the Spanish American War |
| Panama Canal | man made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific, for trade and military purposes a vital region even today |
| Columbia | America gained authority to build the Panama Canal after aiding a revolution against what country |
| Guantanamo Bay | U.S. military base on the island of Cuba |
| Queen Liliuokalani | proposed "Hawaii for Hawaiians" and was ousted from power by U.S. marines as a result |
| Sugar | primary American economic interest in Hawaii |
| Jose Marti | leader of the Cuban revolution against Spain on the eve of the Spanish American War |
| General Weyler | Spanish officer who attempted to stop the Cuban revolution with concentration camps |
| Big Stick Diplomacy | use of American warships to stabilize the Dominican Republic from a European land grab is an example of this policy |
| Dollar Diplomacy | U.S. investment in Nicaragua to help stabilize and influence the region is an example of this policy |
| Moral/Missionary Diplomacy | refusal to recognize a government of "butchers" in Mexico is an example of this policy |
| WWI | event that marked the final stage in America's shift from isolation to imperialism |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President responsible for building the Panama Canal |
| William McKinley | President at the time of the Spanish American War |
