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Platt Amendment: an amendment that specified the following - Cuba couldn’t make any treaty with another nation that would weaken its independence, had to allow the U.S. to buy/lease naval stations, had to keep debts low to prevent foreign countries from sending troops, and gave the U.S. rights to intervene to preserve independence in Cuba

Anglo-Saxonism: this idea was popular in Britain and the U.S. Many Americans saw it as a part of Manifest Destiny.

Imperialisms: the economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations

Joseph Pulitzer: owned one of the nation’s major newspapers, the “New York World.”

Jose Marti: a writer and poet who was passionately committed to the cause of Cuban independence. One of the exiled leaders who brought together different Cuban exiled groups in hopes of invading Cuba and liberating it

Theodore Roosevelt: Assistant Secretary of the Navy during President McKinley’s time in office. Raged at McKinelyk, saying he had no backbone since he didn’t want to go to war

Protectorate: imperial power allowed the local nations to stay in control and protected them against rebellions and invasion if they accepted advice from Europeans to govern their nation

Henry Cabot Lodge: a power senator who, along with Albert J. Beveridge, pushed for the construction of a new U.S. Navy

Queen Liliuokalani: Queen of Hawaii until 1893. American troops overthrew her reign to take Hawaii as a part of the U.S. to make a profit from its sugarcane plantations

Pan-Americanism: the idea that the U.S. and Latin America should work together for each other’s benefits

Jingoism: an attitude of aggressive nationalism. Within the Republican party, jingoism was very strong, especially among younger members of the party

Alfred Mahan: an officer in the U.S. Navy who taught at the Naval War College. Published his lectures in “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783”

Published: prepared and issued for public sale or readership. In 1890, Mahan published his lectures in “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783”

Virtually: William Howard Taft, first U.S. civilian governor of the Philippines, set up a public school system, and new healthcare policies virtually ended severe diseases like cholera and smallpox

Matthew Perry: a commodore that was ordered by President Millard Fillmore to take a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty

William Hearst: owned one of the nation’s major newspapers, the “New York Journal.”

American Technology: ?

Violated: Addams, Clemens, and many others believed that imperialism violated American principles.

Resources: Although volunteers flooded into army training camps, the army lacked resources to train and equip them.

Yellow Journalisms: a kind of sensationalist reporting, in which writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers.