USH Chapter 18

Yellow Journalism

style of writing which exaggerated the news to lure and enrage leaders

Jose Marti

Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York who launched a revolution in 1895

Gave the US Navy a strategic location in the Pacific

Pearl Harbor

How much the US payed for The Philippines from Spain

$20M

Big Stick Policy

negotiating peacefully but having strength in case things go wrong

Territory located to protect the Panama Canal

Puerto Rico

Queen Liliokalani

Last monarch of Hawaii; wanted to protect Hawaii but was captured

Stanford B Dole

Forced Hawaii to sign the Bayonet Constitution which stripped the Monarchy from power

3 factors for American Imperialism

New markets, cultural superiority, and military strengths/expansion

Protectorate

a country whose affairs are partially controlled (by the US)

Dollar diplomacy

Taft’s policy of using financial power in the US to gain control by giving financial help to countries in the Western Hemisphere to those in debt to Europe

Alfred Mahan

Father of the modern US Navy and favored aggressive expansion of the US; wanted to establish a base in the caribbean (Puerto Rico) and in the Pacific (Hawaii)

Puerto Rico’s government was…

elected by the people

4 acre act

Split the government into 2 houses in which the people voted for and congress; gave power to Puerto Rico with approval of the US

Platt Amendment (Cuba)

Put into Cuban legislation; priority over US for trade and limited treaties in which the US had to approve of

Remember the Maine!

The reason the US stepped in to help Cuba against Spain; The maine was a marine ship that exploded in Cuba due to the Spanish

Roosevelt Corollary

1904, stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors

US Navy’s use for the Panama Canal

Protection of both coasts

Panama Canal Treaty

The policy that gave the US rights to build a canal that would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1903

Moral Diplomacy

Wilson’s policy to help other democratic countries in the Western Hemishere

Imperialism

the policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Monroe Doctrine 1817

Asks that Europe stays out of the Western Hemisphere; US will take interest over Latin America

Treat of Paris of 1898

Signed by the US and Spanish at the end if the Spanish-American war

State bought under William Seward with massive amounts of resources

Alaska

How do Roosevelt’s, Taft’s, and Wilson’s policies relate to the monroe doctrine

• Roosevelt’s Corollary extended the Monroe Doctrine by asserting that the US would intervene in Latin America to maintain stability

• Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy promoted US financial interests abroad, under the premise of protecting American investments, aligning with the Monroe Doctrine's focus on limiting European influence in the region

• Wilson's Moral Diplomacy aimed to support democratic nations while opposing oppressive regimes, which also reflects the principles of the Monroe Doctrine by emphasizing US influence in the Western Hemisphere

Territories that are now states

Alaska and Hawaii

Territories that are still territories

Guam and Puerto Rico

Territories that America lost

The Philippines

Reason for New Markets

American farms/factories were producing more than the population could consume (which leads the prices to go down); planned to ship materials through the Mississippi River