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| Progressivism | is the movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms. |
| impearlism | The political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories |
| Extractive economy | an economy in a colony where the colonizing country removed raw materials and shipped them back home to benefit its own economy. |
| yellow journalism | Newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership |
| Sphere of influence | a region dominated and controlled by an outside power. |
| Open door policy | American statement that the government did not want colonies in China, but favored free trade there |
| dollar diplomacy | President Taft’s policy of expanding American investments abroad. |
| Big Stick diplomacy | Theodore Roosevelt’s policy of creating and using, when necessary, strong military action to achieve American goals was |
| Moral diplomacy | Woodrow Wilson’s statement that the US would not use force to assert influence in the world, but would work to promote human rights |
| annexation | to incorporate a territory into an existing country or unit. |
