Study Guide 4

The Boxer Rebellion

Chinese nationalists who were angered by foreign involvement in China.

Anti-Imperialist League

Coalition of anti imperialist groups united in 1899 to protest American territorial expansion, especially in the Philippine Islands. Its members included politicians, industrial leaders labor leaders and social reformers

Queen Lili'uokalani

Hawaiian Queen who invited US to annex the islands, formally annexed in 1898

8. Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States?

Insular Cases

Which of the following assessments of the Roosevelt Corollary is accurate?

It held that the United States had the right to exercise an international police power.

Emilio Aquinaldo

Led the Filipino Rebels. Fought for freedom against the U.S. (Philippines)

Pancho Villa

Mexican revolutionary who conducted numerous raids on American soil

Yellow Press

Newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership. This reached a peak in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal in the 1890's. The papers accounts of the events in the Havana Harbor led to the Spanish American War.

Insular Cases

Series of cases between 1901 and 1904 in which the Supreme court ruled that constitutional protection of individual rights did not fully apply to residents of "insular" territories acquired by the United States in the Spanish American War, such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines

Teller Amendment

Stated that the United States had no interest in taking control of Cuba.

Which of the following was a consequence of race-based explanations for expansion by United States leaders?

Such explanations justified domination and war, and thus downplayed the usefulness of diplomacy.

Anglo-American rapprochement

The Great Rapprochement, according to historians including Bradford Perkins, describes the convergence of diplomatic, political, military and economic objectives between the United States and Great Britain in 1895-1915, the two decades up to and including the beginning of World War I

San Juan Hill

The most highly publicized land battle of the Spanish American war. It took place in Cuba. This was the charge up San Juan Hill, outside Santiago, by Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is TRUE?

The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.

Water Cure

This method of torture was commonly in practice during the Philippine-American War (Simulated drowning

John Hay

U.S. secretary of state who announced the Open Door Policy demanding that European powers that had recently divided China into commercial spheres of influence grant equal access to american exports.

Hawaii Annexation

US supported an overthrow of this island's queen in order to obtain more territory for the U.S. This recognized Hawaii as part of the US in 1898, although it was not yet a state.

Those who advocated the acquisition of an American empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century espoused which of the following ideas?

When the United States intervenes and remakes the societies of weaker nations, it is extending the benefits of liberty and prosperity to less fortunate people.

Assess the effectiveness of President Woodrow Wilson's response to Mexico's Civil War

Wilson's attempts to teach Mexican people how to select good men only led to the war spilling over into the United States.

Liberal Internationalism

Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy theory, which rested on the idea that economic and political freedom went hand in hand, and encouraged American intervention abroad in order to secure these freedoms globally.

moral imperialism

Woodrow Wilson's idea that Americans were 'meant to carry liberty and justice throughout the world.'

Commodore George Dewey

admiral of the united states navy and best known for his victory during the spanish - american war. Became a hero after destroying the Spanish fleet at Manila.

The Platt Amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad

The leaders who guided American foreign relations between 1865 and 1914

believed that exertion of American influence abroad would help maintain prosperity at home.

As president, Woodrow Wilson

believed that the export of U.S. manufactured goods went hand in hand with the spread of democracy.

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

Dollar Diplomacy:

characterizes the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt

The Roosevelt Corollary:

claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere.

The "white man's burden":

comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling

America's empire in the early twentieth century was all of the following EXCEPT:

cultural.

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

declared the US to be an international police power in the western hemisphere

From 1914 to 1916, U.S. intervention in Mexico:

demonstrated the weaknesses of Wilson's foreign policy

Most American deaths in the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War were caused by

disease

During the age of empire, American racial attitudes

had a global impact.

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

Theodore Roosevelt's taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:

his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.

Between 1901 and 1920, the United States intervened militarily numerous times in Caribbean countries:

in order to protect the economic interests of American banks and companies.

During the 1890s, leaders who favored economic expansion but not the annexation of overseas territory

lost ground to those who advocated imperialism

Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced

more military interventions than any other president before or since.

In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:

territory

The Teller Amendment stated that:

the United States would not annex Cuba.

Captain Alfred T. Mahan argued that the nation's economic well-being depended on

the building of an efficient navy to protect American shipping

The annexation of the Hawaiian Islands was preceded by

the seizure of Hawaii's government, which was plotted by American sugar growers and carried out with the assistance of American troops.

The Philippine War:

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War

In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines:

was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos.

U.S. control of the Panama Canal Zone:

was part of Theodore Roosevelt's policy of intervention in Central America

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports.

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

yellow journalists

The primary intent of the Open Door notes of 1899 and 1900 was to

. protect American commercial interests in China.

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

. the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy

Spanish-American War

1898 war that began when the United States demanded Cuba's independence from Spain. War w/ Spain; US gained Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba

Platt Amendment

1901 amendment to the Cuban constitution that reserved the United States right to intervene in Cuban affairs and forced newly independent Cuba to host American naval bases.

Dollar Diplomacy

A foreign policy initiative under President William Howard Taft that promoted the spread of American Influence through loans and economic investments from American Banks

The Great White Fleet

A group of white ships that were sent around the world to display the U.S. naval power

Alfred T. Mahon

A naval officer who wrote Influence of Sea Power Upon History. He argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating from overseas bases.

Philippine War

After the Spanish American War, McKinley decided to retain possession of the Philippine Islands the result was as second war, far longer and bloodier.

All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:

Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance.

Open Door Policy to China

All nations should have equal access to trade in China.