Chapter 27 - Empire and Expansion

San Franciscos school board

________ segregated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students to make room for white students in 1906.

Roosevelt

Brokered a peace agreement in 1905 with the Japanese receiving no compensation for their losses

Anti Imperialist League

________ fought against McKinleys expansionist actions, in support of not imperializing the Philippines.

Hearst

________ and Pulitzer employed "yellow journalism "to inflate anger of American people over Cuban crisis.

Root-Takahira

Was reached in Japan with the U.S. and Japan pledging to respect each others territories

American troops

________ captured Manila on August 13, 1898.

Foraker Act of 1900

Gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government

McKinley

Was assassinated in September of 1901

Rough Riders

Were a regiment of American volunteers that were commanded by Colonel Wood and organized by Roosevelt

Spain

________ signed an armistice on August 12, 1898.

Roosevelt Corollary

The ________ to the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed that the U.S. could pay off the Latin American countries debt to keep European countries out of Latin America.

U.S.

The ________ withdrew from Cuba in 1902, as it was honoring the Teller Amendment of 1898.

Philippine Commission

Put in place by McKinley in 1899, in order to set up a Filipino government

Commodore Deweys fleet

________ attacked and destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila.

Cervera

Was blockaded in the Santiago harbor in Cuba by American ships

McKinley Tariff of 1890

Made sugar imports from Hawaii less profitable

Theodore Roosevelt

Took over as President

Spanish American war

________ increased American prestige, worldwide, despite only having lasted 113 days.

McKinley

Was the Republican presidential nominee for the election of 1900 due to him having led the country through war, acquiring rich real estate, establishing the gold standard, and bringing prosperity to the nation

McKinley

Had a plan: "Benevolent Assimilation" of Filipinos which consisted of improving roads, sanitation, and public health