| A | B |
|---|
| Arbitration | Disagreement between 2 parties solved through a 3rd party |
| Imperialism | Establishing colonies and building empires |
| Isolationism | Separation from political affairs of other countries |
| Reciprocity | Mutual lowering of tariff barriers |
| Yellow Journalism | Exaggerated or fabricated stories published in a newspaper |
| "Remember the Maine" | Am. battle cry after ship exploded in Havana Harbor |
| Rough Riders | Am. regiment made up of college athletes, cowboys, miners, law officers |
| Teller Amendment | Final clause of War Message saying: Cubans would be govern when peace restored |
| Malaria | Recurring chills, fever and sweating disease transmitted by mosquitoes |
| Platt Amendment | U.S. would govern Cuba for 33 years |
| Neutrality | Refusal to take sides |
| Protectorate | A nation or region controlled by a stronger state |
| "Big Stick" Diplomacy | T. Roosevelt's aggressive manner of conducting foreign relations to increase U.S. influence in the world. |
| Roosesvelt Corollary | U.S. could intervene in any Latin Am. country who was weak or quilty of wrong doings. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | President Taft's approach in foreign affairs. Use economic means to reach diplomatic objectives. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Determined to return control of Hawaii to the Hawaiian people |
| General V. Weyler | Ordered Cuban men, women, and children into "reconcentration camps" where 1/8 died. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Assistant Sec. of Navy and leader of the Rough Riders. |
| General Nelson A. Miles | U.S. Major General who led the invasion of Puerto Rico. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Publisher (owner) of the newspaper the N.Y. Journal |
| John Hay | Secretary of State in 1901 he called the 4 month fighting between the U.S. & Spain a "splendid little war". |
| Joseph Pulizer | Publisher (owner) of the New York World newspaper. |
| Commodore George Dewey | Commander of the U.S. fleet. Destroyed Spanish fleet in Manila Bay |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | Led uprising against Spanish rule in Philipinnes in 1896 with Am. supplies. |
| William Howard Taft | First civilian governor of Philippines, Sec. of War under Pres. T. Roosevelt, & weighed more than 300 lbs. |
| Dr. Walter Reed | Leader of Am. Medical team proved theory that Yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. |
| William McKinley | Battleship U.S.S. Maine blew up in Havana Harbor during my presidency. |
| Dr. William Gorgas | Led efforts to clean up mosquitoes & unsanitary conditions in Panama that caused disease. |
| Colonel George Goethals | Leader of Am. army engineers who completed Panama Canal in 1913. |
| William H. Seward | Secretary of State who arranged for the purchase of Alaska in 1867 |
| McKinley Tariff | This law allowed all countries to ship sugar duty-free to the United States. |
| subsidy | A bonus payment by the government of 2 cents per pound of sugar. Thus Hawaiian economy collapsed |
| Matthew Perry | He he carried the American flag into Japanese waters, and concluded a treaty which opened their ports to American enterprise. |
| spheres of influence | Areas where foreign nations could control trade and natural resources. |
| Open Door Policy | All nations should have equal access to trade in China. |
| Boxer Rebellion | Chinese nationalists who were members of a group called the Fists of Righteous Harmony. They were angered by foreign involvement in China's affairs and by the Chinese government's poor management. |
| Anti-Imperialist League | Accused the U.S. of building a colonial empire. |
| Hay-Herran Treaty | U.S. would pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for 99 year lease across the isthmus of Panama. Colombiam senate rejected the treaty. |
| Philippe Bunau-Varilla | Chief engineer of the French Canal Company. |
| Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | Same as Hay-Herran Treaty but widdened the canal zone to 10 miles. |
| Porfirio Diaz | President of Mexico 1877 to 1880 & 1884 to 1911. He welcomed foreign investment. |
| Francisco Madero | Mexican leader and democratic reformer who began the Mexican Revolution |
| Victoriano Huerto | A general who took control of Mexico in 1913 and had Madero killed. |
| Venustiano Carranza | Led a revolt against Huerta. |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Led rebels in northern Mexico. |
| Emiliano Zapata | Led rebels in southern Mexico. |
