| A | B |
|---|
| imperialism | spreading the rule of one country over that of another |
| yellow journalism | an attempt by newspapers to appeal to the emotions of readers in an attempt to sell more papers |
| armistice | aggreement to stop fighting |
| Caleb Cushing | was fist commistioner to China |
| Mattew Perry | convinced Japanese to open several ports to America |
| The McKinley Tarrif | put a tax on hawaiian sugar to surpass the price of sugar grown in America |
| Queen Liluokalani | she was the queen of hawaii, and wanted to rid the hawaiian government of American influence |
| arbitration | hearing and deciding of a disagreement by a third party |
| Valeriano Weyler | he made all cubans move to certian cities in which they couldn't leave |
| Enrique Dupuy de Lome | he was the spanish minister to the United States in 1898 |
| Maine | battleship blown up in the Havana harbor |
| Spanish-American war | war fougt between America and Spain for the independance of Cuba |
| George Dewey | took over the city of Manila |
| Teller Amendment | said that once United Sates restored peace it would turn over the island to the Cuban people |
| Treaty of Paris | when America and Spain worked out the peace terms in 1898 |
