Chapter 22

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Define territory...

An area that's completely controlled by another country

"Now, to avoid any collision of Armed Forces and perhaps the loss of a life I... Yield my authority." Who quoted this statement?

Queen Liliuokalani

panamians successfully revolted against Columbia with the help of what other country?

The United States

United States became involved in Mexico Civil War when Pres. Wilson ordered troops deceives what port city?

Veracruz

Define Protectorate...

a technically independent country run by another nation

How many Filipinos were killed when emilio aguinaldo's forces in the Philippines fight against you Westrick for independence?

200,000 people

About how many miles sea voyage from New York to San Francisco Panama?

4900 miles

About how far is Cuba from United States

90 miles

"Seapower is essential to the greatness of every splendid people." -Capt. Alfred Thayer mahan If the US was to increase its naval power as the 20th century approach, which of these was most important?

Acquiring secure overseas bases to refuel resupply, and repair warships

Over watch Chinese province did Nebraska and Japan clash in the early 1900s?

Main charia

At what Cuban harbor with the Spanish fleet destroyed?

Colon

What was created in 1889 to promote collaboration among the nations in the Western Hemisphere?

Pan American union

Define anarchy...

Disorder and lawlessness

Pres. taft foreign-policy was known as...

Dollar diplomacy

In the 1890s which nations had spheres of influence in China?

England and France

Number these following events in Chronological order... Example 1. The Treaty of Paris and the Spanish-American war Example 2. The Panama Canal opens Example 3. The purchase of Alaska Example 4. The queen becomes the Hawaiian monarch

Example 1-3 Example 2-4 Example 3-1 Example 4-2

Define expansionism...

Expanding territory

United States and which country split Samola between them?

Germany and England

"the Philippines are ours forever... And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either... The Pacific is our ocean." Sen. Albert beaver Ridge, 1990 This excerpt expresses an opinion that supports an American foreign-policy of...

Imperialism

Why did the French failed to build a canal across Panama

It was too expensive

who led the Cubans in revolt against Spain in 1895?

José Marti

What leader began to unify the Hawaiian Islands around the 1790s?

King Kamehamehal

Where did the United States first apply the Roosevelt collary?

Latin America

"Panama was mostly a damp, tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitoes...." These mosquitoes had diseases what were they

Malaria and yellow fever

Whose visit to Japan and 1853 lead to the Treaty of kanagwa?

Matthew Perry

Define isolationism...

Non-involvement

Where was the US Naval Station and Samoa?

Pago Pago

Define imperialism...

Powerful European nations created large empires by gaining power

From which country did the United States purchase Alaska?

Russia

Define spheres of influence...

Section of a country where one foreign nation enjoy special rights and Powers

The induction of witch crop to Hawaii in the 1830s led to the creation of large plantations owned by white Americans?

Sugar

Where did the first action of that Spanish-American war take place?

The Philippines

What incident led the congresses declaring war on Spain in 1898?

The blowup of the maine In Cuban harbor

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." Who sent this

Theodore Roosevelt

This US Pres., determined to build the Panama Canal, backed a revolution in Panama. He said, "I took the Canal zone and let Congress debate," and after remarked, "and while the debate goes on the canal does also."

Theodore Roosevelt

Who was the leader of the rough riders?

Theodore Roosevelt

What's US Secretary of State hoped for an American empire that dominated the Caribbean, Central America, and Pacific?

William H Seaward

"How long is the Spaniards to drench Cuba with the blood and tears of her people?" "... How long shall old man and woman and children to be murdered by the score, the innocent victims of Spanish rage against the patriots armies they cannot conquer?" "... How long shall the United States sit idle and indifferent...?" -New York world editorial This editorial plea for the US intervention in Cuba is an example of...

Yellow journalism

Define isthmus...

a narrow strip of land connecting to larger areas

The goal of Francisco Madero was the overthrow which brutal Mexican dictator

porfirio díaz

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt helped and Russo-Japanese war with...

treaty of portsmouthe


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