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| Alfred Thayer Mahan | Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," 1660-1783; felt that the key to global dominance was control of the seas. |
| James G. Blaine | Pushed his "Big Sister" policy in the Harrison adminstration; wanted to rally the Latin nations to put their support behind the US and include them in trade. |
| Richard Olney | Cleveland's Secretary of State; delivered message to British that they were violating the Monroe Doctrine by trying to gain control of Venezuela. |
| Valeriano Wyler | Undertook to crush Cuban rebellion by placing them in barbed wire concentration camps which became very unsanitary and the prisoners eventually died in inhumane conditions. |
| Dupuy de Lome | Forced to resign when a derogatory letter he had written about McKinley was found. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Criticized McKinley for having the backbone of an eclair; very overzealous and led Rough Riders in charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War. |
| George Dewey | Commanded the American Asiatic Squadron at Hong Kong; was to descend upon Spain's Phillipines in the event of a war. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Exiled from the Philippines by the Spanish; brought back to assist the American invasion; declared loyalty to the US in 1901. |
| Re-concentration | The act of capturing a group of people and placing them in containment so that they cannot help their cause. |
| Imperialism | The belief that the U.S. needed to have hegemonic control over other nations in the world if it was to be a respected nation among leading nations of the time. |
| Pan-American Conference | Met in Washington, D.C.; succeeded in blazing the way for a long important series of inter-American assemblages between North, Central, and South America. |
| Rough Riders | Part of invading army during the Spanish American War, consisted largely of western cowboys on dash with sprinkling of ex-polo and ex-convicts. |
| Anti-Imperialist League | People who were against the US practicing imperialism, to fight McKinley administration's expansionist moves. |
| Foraker Act | Congress accorded the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government, and in 1917 granted them US citizenship. |
| Insular cases | Solved the question concerning whether the protections guaranteed under the Constitution "followed the flag" during America's imperialist phase. They did not. |
| Platt Amendment | Bounded Cubans t not impair their imdependence by treaty or by contracting a debt beyond their resources; also agreed that the US might intervene with troops to restore and provide mutual protection. |
| Jingoism | Intense nationalism usually leading to discrimination of those who were "not patriotic enough." |
| Treaty of Panic | Conference between Spain and America, where they signed a peace treaty ending the Spanish American War. |
