| A | B |
|---|
| Panama Canal | Date and Cost |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | Led Filipino rebels against Spain and US |
| Yellow Journalism | exaggerated news stories |
| Midway Islands | halfway between the US and Japan |
| George Dewey | destroyed the Spanish Fleet in the Philippines |
| Porforio Diaz | Mexican dictator in 1910 |
| 3 reasons that European countries began Imperialism in Africa and Asia | Look up answers in your notes and textbook |
| John J. Pershing | tried to capture Pancho Villa |
| USS Maine | sent to Havana Cuba to protect US interests |
| Commonwealth | Puerto Rico |
| Platt Amendment | allowed the US to intervene in Cuba |
| Anti-Imperialist League | opposed American colonial empire |
| William Gorgas | helped rid the Panama canal route of mosquitoes |
| 10 years | to complete the Panama Canal |
| Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines | How did the US acquire them? |
| Isolationism | avoid involvement in the affairs of foreign countries |
| William Seward | purchased Alaska |
| Liliuokalani | Queen of Hawaii |
| Boxers | Chinese nationalists |
| 2 cents | how much the US payed for Alaska per acre |
| Imperialsim | founding colonies by conquering other nations |
| Walter Reed | helped control Yellow fever in Cuba |
| Spheres of Influence | areas in China controlled by other countries |
| Teller Amendment | stated the US had no interest in taking over Cuba |
| Matthew Perry | went to Japan to secure trade |
| Open Door Policy | Policy to have equal access to China |
| Alfred Mahan | Promoted the idea the US needed a strong Navy |
| Roosevelt Corollary | addition to the Monroe Doctrine |
| 99 years | contract of the Panama Canal |
| 120,000 | number of immigrants from Mexico that fled to the US between 1905 and 1915 |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft's policy in Latin America |
| Rough Riders | volunteer soldiers who fought in Cuba |
