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| Jose Marti | Cuban poet, writer, freedom fighter; killed in battle against Spain for Cuban independence |
| General Maximo Gomez | leader of Cuban freedom fighters |
| Antonio Maceo | leader of Cuban independence movement; of African descent |
| General Weyler | "the butcher"; Spanish general sent to Cuba to put down rebellion |
| Reconcentration Camps | prisons in Cuban cities used to round up Cuban people to cut rebels off from aid/supplies/new soldiers; unsanitary, starvation |
| Imperialism | deliberately taking over new lands/people for purposes of expansion, natural resources, power; from perspective of the conquered |
| Expansionism | expanding one's national borders; often from the perspective of the conquering party |
| Colonialism | sending settlers to a new land, far from the home country; settlers are still citizens of home country and governed by home country |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | leader of Filipino independence movement |
| President William McKinley | U.S. president during Spanish-American War; assassinated |
| Theodore Roosevelt | fought as Rough Rider in Spanish-American War; later became U.S. president |
| USS Maine | U.S. battleship stationed in Havana harbor (Cuba); sinking of this ship started Spanish-American War |
| Yellow Journalism | exaggerated or fabricated (made up) reporting for purpose of selling more papers |
| Anti-Imperialist League | group of U.S. citizens protesting U.S. involvement in Cuba and the Philippines; made up largely of women |
| Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand | Spanish monarchs during height of Spanish Empire; concerned with defeating the Muslim Empire |
| Turner's Thesis | idea that since the U.S. had expanded to its full extent in North America, it had to expand into new lands or wither away |
| Mestizo/Mestiza | meaning "mixed"; term used to describe the mixing of ancestry and culture in Latin America |
| Empire | large area controlled by a central government with a shared culture throughout the territorial holdings |
| Caste System | legal system of organizing people into categories based on race/heritage; legalized system of inequality |
| Spanish-American War | when the U.S. fought the Spanish Empire for Cuban independence and control of Spain's colonies |
| Cuban Independence Movement | series of wars fought for Cuba's freedom from Spain |
