American History - Chapter 5 ✅

William Randolph Hurst

A newspaper publisher who heightened the public dislike of the Spanish government by publishing the Yellow Press.

Yellow Press

Publications made that heightened the public dislike of the Spanish government featuring a popular comic-strip character called the Yellow Kid.

Jingoism

Aggressive nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy and desire for war to defend or promote national interests.

George Dewey

A commodore who leads ships to Manila Bay and surprise the Spanish fleet that was stationed in the bay, helping acquire the Philippines.

Emilio Aginaldo

Leader of the Filipino nationalist who helped defeat the Spanish army to fight for the Philippines’ freedom from Spain.

Rough Riders

Future president Theodore Roosevelt’s team of rugged westerner and upper-class easterners who relished the “strenuous life” and fought in the Battle of San Juan Hill.

Treaty of Paris

The treaty signed between the US and Spain that officially ended the war, where Spain gave up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and also sold the Philippines for $20 million

Guerrilla warfare

A form of nontraditional warfare, generally involving small bands of fighters attacking behind enemy lines.

1. Practical: the frontier was closed

2. Economic: global competitions for markets

3. National prestige

4. Military: expanded navy

5. Cultural: belief in superiority (social Darwinism)

What are five reasons for the US to become an imperial nation?

Imperialism

Policy in which stronger nations, primarily for their own benefit, extend their economic, political, and/or military influence over weaker terrritories.

Fredrick Jackson Turner

Believed in the frontier thesis; that the US no loner had any frontier, so overseas expansion became needed.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Wrote a book to urge the US to build a modern navy and get naval parts around the world to supply the ships.

Social Darwinism

The idea that the strong (imperial) survive and the weak (the colonies) are conquered, and thus is the natural way of life.