Spanish American War

What physical feature, declared 'closed' in 1890, influenced the USA to look outwards?

Frontier

What type of economic policy characterized minimal government interference in the economy?

Laissez-faire

What historian is known for his influential thesis on the significance of the frontier?

Turner

What naval captain argued that sea power was crucial for national greatness?

Mahan

What belief described the God-given right of Americans to expand and spread their influence?

Manifest Destiny

What theory applied 'survival of the fittest' to human societies and races?

Social Darwinism

What island group, partitioned in 1899, included the strategic port of Pago Pago?

Samoa

What island nation, economically reliant on the USA due to sugar trade, was annexed in 1898?

Hawaii

What term describes the strategy of acquiring colonies simply to prevent rivals from obtaining them?

Preclusive Imperialism

What specific harbor in Samoa became a key US naval base?

Pago Pago

What type of religious work often served as a precursor to US involvement in overseas territories?

Missionary

What city hosted the first Pan-American Conference in 1889?

Washington

What European power was involved in a border dispute with Venezuela in 1895 that drew in the USA?

Britain

What major US naval base was established in Hawaii in 1887?

Pearl Harbor

What term is generally used to describe the US policy of detaching itself from foreign affairs in the 19th century?

Isolationism

What treaty was signed with China in 1844 to promote trade?

ChinaTreaty of Wanghia

What territory was purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million?

Alaska

What South American country had a tense dispute with the USA in 1891 after US sailors were attacked?

Chile

What US foreign policy, declared in 1823, warned European countries against involvement in the Americas:

Monroe Doctrine

What US tariff implemented in 1890 removed duties on raw sugar from all sources?

McKinley Tariff

What Hawaiian monarch was overthrown by American planters in 1893?

Liliuokalani

What European country intervened militarily in the First Samoan Civil War in the 1880s?

Germany

What Spanish general was nicknamed 'Butcher'?

Weyler

What ship exploded in Havana harbor?

USS Maine

What type of sensationalist journalism was used?

Yellow Press

Who founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party?

Martí

What Spanish Ambassador wrote an insulting letter about McKinley?

Lôme

What belief was contradicted by Manifest Destiny?

Self-determination

What describes the strategy of destroying everything?

Scorched Earth Policy

What type of fighter uses ambush techniques?

Guerrilla

What island was a strategic point between the Philippines and Hawaii?

Guam

What single word slogan meant 'Free Cuba'?

Libre

What city was captured by US and Aguinaldo's forces on 13 August?

Manila

What famous poem was published in the early 1900s that addressed the US and the Philippine Islands?

‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling

How much did Spain receive from the USA in return for relinquishing control of its possessions?

$20 million

Which territories were ceded to the USA at the Paris Peace Conference?

The Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico

What US amendment prevented the annexation of Cuba?

The Teller Amendment

Which leader convinced the Filipino government to declare war on the USA following annexation?

Emilio Aguinaldo

What term did McKinley use to describe the idea that subject peoples could only benefit from US governance?

‘Benevolent Assimilation’

What fact about the Filipinos did McKinley perhaps not realize or acknowledge regarding Christianization?

Over 7 million Filipinos were already practising Catholics

What organization was composed mainly of Democrats and others who opposed US imperial expansion?

The Anti-Imperialist League

Who was a famous industrialist who offered to buy the Philippines to give it back to its inhabitants?

Andrew Carnegie

What was the financial cost of the war in the Philippines for the US?

$600 million.

What was the percentage casualty rate for US military personnel in the Philippines war compared to other overseas wars?

5.5 per cent

The policy of increasing US influence abroad through financial investment, thus making foreign states economically reliant on the US.

Dollar diplomacy

Nations with significant political, economic, and military influence on a global scale.

Great Powers

The term given to a country ‘protected’ by or heavily under the influence of another.

Protectorate

Who were the "progressive presidents" mentioned in the sources?

The progressive presidents were Theodore Roosevelt (1901–09), William Howard Taft (1909–13), and Woodrow Wilson (1913–21)

How did the USA govern Puerto Rico after capturing it from Spain?

The Foraker Act of 1900

What was Roosevelt's term for forcing countries, particularly in Latin America, to govern themselves effectively and act responsibly to foreign interests, such as over the repayment of debts, by threatening US intervention.

"Big Stick" policy

Justified by Roosevelt in December 1904, it refused to accept the right of foreign nations to intervene in the Americas but recognized that countries within the Americas had to pay their debts and behave responsibly, setting up the USA as a police force in the region?

Roosevelt Corollary

In support of which revolt did Roosevelt sent the battleship Nashville and marines to support the insurgents, and US ships prevented Colombian troops from landing to tackle the rebellion? Colombian rule in 1903?

Panama Revolt

How did the US acquire the rights to build the canal from the New French Canal Company?

President Roosevelt bought the rights for the US Government for $40 million. He achieved this price by threatening to build a canal across Nicaragua. The Spooner Act of 1902 authorized the US to purchase these rights.

What were the key terms of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Act of 1904 that benefited the US?

The new government of Panama accepted $10 million and an annual sum of $250,000 for the US rights.

What was the estimated human cost associated with the construction of the canal from its beginning?

27,500

What year was a treaty between the US and the area that would become Panama gave the US a right to a transit route across Panama?

1846

Years that the Paris Peace Conference took place?

1898-1899

Roosevelt's militia during the Spanish American War?

Rough Riders

Wilson's foreign policy in South America?

Moral Diplomacy

A set of conditions the US insisted Cuba include in its constitution, allowing for US intervention and naval bases?

Platt Amendment