Chapter 22: Age of Empire and American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914

What drove American overseas expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

markets for American products and spreading Christianity

U.S. foreign policy in the last decade of the nineteenth century (1890s) can be characterized as

expansionist

Who outlined the building blocks for an overseas empire with a strong navy, a network of naval bases, and canal in Central America?

Alfred T. Mahan

The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist uprising in which country?

China

Although Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders got all the glory, over twenty-five hundred of us proved our bravery–five Medal of Honor recipients. Who are we?

Smoked Yankees

Who supported an independent Panama (separate from Columbia) and started the building of a canal in Central America?

Theodore Roosevelt

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Frederick Jackson Turner

Frontier Thesis

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Seward’s Folly

Alaska

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Influence of Seapower upon History

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William Randolph Hearst

New York Journal

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Maine explosion

Havana harbor

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Lottie Moon

Christian missionary in China

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John Hay

Open Door notes

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Filipinos' war for independence

An instance of yellow journalism was the?

sensationalized newspaper articles promoting American military intervention in Cuba.

To solidify strategic ports in the South Pacific, the U.S., Great Britain, and Germany divided which island group?

Samoan Islands

Which President focused on securing markets for American business with “dollar diplomacy”?

William Howard Taft

By the end of the Taft presidency (1913), the U.S. was the pre-eminent power in

Western Hemisphere/the Americas

To win hearts and minds, the Taft Commission built schools and hospitals where?

Philippines

American sugar planters and businessmen staged a coup where to depose the monarchy?

Hawaii

What was the main argument of the Frontier Thesis?

American democracy and the unique American character was shaped by European colonists and the wilderness of North America.

The Opium Wars were between China and which country?

Great Britain

As a result of the Russo-Japanese War and the Portsmouth conference, Japan gained which new territory?

Korea

Which amendment enabled the U.S. to keep a base in Cuba, specifically Guantanamo Bay?

Platt Amendment

I fought for independence of my homeland, but capitulated to the U.S.A. in 1901. Who am I?

Emilio Aguinaldo

The image in Figure 22.1 did what?

glorified American imperialism in Cuba

According to Figure 22.5, the U.S. acquired which south Pacific territory in 1899?

American Samoa

The Roosevelt Corollary proclaimed what?

America's right to interfere in Latin American affairs

The U.S. paid Spain $20M in the Treaty of Paris, but did NOT acquire which territory? 

Cuba

Who said “speak softly, and carry a big stick.” in regard to U.S. foreign policy?

Theodore Roosevelt