history test monday

Albert Beveridge

U.S. Senator who strongly advocated overseas expansion to secure foreign commercial markets, natural resources, strategic military bases, and global prestige.

Anti-Imperialist League

An organization featuring prominent figures like William Jennings Bryan that opposed annexation, arguing that ruling foreign populations without consent violated core principles of democracy and self-government.

Yellow journalism

Sensationalized and exaggerated reporting on Spanish colonial atrocities that incited public outrage in the United States and built political support for military action.

Causes of U.S. intervention in Cuba (1898)

A prolonged rebellion against brutal Spanish authority, sensationalized newspaper accounts, and the sudden explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.

Platt Amendment

A constitutional provision granting nominal independence to Cuba in 1902 while securing American authority to intervene in domestic affairs and lease naval stations.

Post-war status of the Philippines

Annexed directly as an overseas territory by the United States following the war with Spain, triggering years of armed resistance by local forces seeking self-rule.

José Martí

Exiled writer, intellectual, and organizer who unified and inspired the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain.

Emilio Aguinaldo

Revolutionary leader who led Filipino forces against Spanish colonial rule and subsequently commanded armed resistance against United States occupation.

Insular Cases

A series of Supreme Court decisions ruling that the Constitution does not automatically apply in full to unincorporated overseas territories.

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy record

Strengthened the naval fleet, led the Rough Riders in Cuba, secured the Panama Canal project, and exercised Big Stick diplomacy to project power abroad.

Monroe Doctrine

Nineteenth-century foreign policy stance warning European empires against colonization or political interference in the Western Hemisphere.

Roosevelt Corollary

An extension of existing hemisphere policy declaring the authority of the United States to exercise international police power in Latin America to deter European intervention.