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CH9: An Emerging Empire 1890-1917

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PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: pre/post SELF-ASSESSMENT
Directions: Respond to the following questions specifying your current general knowledge and comprehension of the concepts,
people, places, issues, and events and their impact on this particular era in American Studies.
1. What is imperialism? Explain the different opinions held by
imperialists and anti-imperialists in the debate over
American involvement with other territories: Alaska, Hawaii,
Cuba, the Philippines, China, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.

2. Who were some of the major imperialists? Who were some

anti-imperialists? Who was Alfred T. Mayer and how did his
work and major writings influence American foreign policy?

6. What was President Wilsons foreign policy? Did the

actions of General Pershing respect or violate such moral
diplomacy in Latin America?

7. What were the causes and effects of the Spanish-American

War? What was Teddy Roosevelts role in it? Who were the
Rough Riders? What happened to the U.S.S. Maine?

8. How did the Yellow Press and jingoism contribute to U.S.

actions against Spain?
3. Explain how the Roosevelt Corollary modified the Monroe
Doctrine on U.S. foreign policy.

4. Judge Roosevelts purposes and actions in getting the U.S.

rights to the construction of the Panama Canal. What did he
do to circumvent the interests of other nations directly
involved?

5. Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Presidents

Roosevelt and Taft?

9. What did Commodore Perry seek to achieve in his mission

to Japan?

10. Analyze the course of European nations and their attempts

to maintain an Open Door Policy in China?

Manifest
Destiny

extractive
economy

Alfred T.
Mahan

Social
Darwinism

Frederick
Turner

annexation

Emilio
Aguinaldo

Rough Riders

John Hay

Great White
Fleet

Yellow Press

insurrection

George Dewey

spheres of
influence
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Boxer Rebellion

Open Door
Policy

Platt
Amendment

Roosevelt
Corollary

dollar
diplomacy

RussoJapanese War

an economy of a colony taken

over and run by a greater, more
nineteenth century doctrine
powerful, dominating nation or
and American philosophy that
country where the colonized
westward expansion of the
country has to give up its raw
United States was not only
materials and labor rights and inevitable but a God-given right.
ship them back to the more
powerful country.
the practice when one
iconic historian that wrote his
country actively moves to take
famous thesis detailing the fact
that the frontier of America that
over all aspects of another,
had threaded the American
smaller, weaker or inferior
imagination
with dreams of
nation an institutes its own
adventure,
wealth
through land
policies and uses its territories
ownership,
and
national
for its own purposes; the US
prominence had effectively closed.
would take over Hawaii in 1898.

the belief held by many

leaders and elites of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth
century that contend that
certain nations and races were
superior to others and therefore
destined to rule over them.

a naval officer and historian, urged

Americans and especially American
leaders to build and maintain a strong
navy and to secure naval bases
around the world including Cuba,
Hawaii, and the Philippines; urged the
building of the Panama Canal;
suggested that history is the history of
countries with a strong navy.

Commodore of the US Navy

that steamed his squadron into
Manila Bay and soundly
defeated the Spanish Navy in
the Spanish-American War
(1898); gave the famous quote
fire when ready and famously
lost no sailors in the war.

newspapers that used sensational

headlines and exaggerated stories in
order to promote readership and to
sell more and more newspapers;
Joseph Pulitzer and his New York
World and William Randolph Hearsts
New York Journal rallied the nation
and its jingoistic notions to go to war
in the spirit of nationalism; the
Spanish-American War of 1898

when a region of a country is

controlled or dominated
mostly for economic trade for
raw materials and especially
markets for the sale of
domestic goods and services;
China was a strategic for many
European nations who wanted
to trade with it.

a rebellion; usually of a native

population wanting to oust an
attempt of a foreign power to
practice imperialism over it; in 1898
after the Spanish-American War the
US fought an insurrection against
the Filipinos that helped the US
defeat and throw-out the Spanish.

is the name given by the

press to TRs Calvary
regiment in the SpanishAmerican War; they famously
charged up San Juan Hill;
many contend that his fame
led him straight to the vicepresidency for McKinley.

a Filipino freedom fighter that

aggressively fought against the
US after the defeat of the
Spanish and tried to get the
Americans, unsuccessfully, out
of the Philippines; Taft would
become Governor and limit the
freedoms of the press.

in 1905 this war would be the first

major defeat of a European power; it
was a tremendous blow to the losing
country and a humiliation that would
become a factor in the country's
entry into WWI; the peace and Treaty
of Portsmouth would be negotiated
by TR and win him a Nobel Peace
prize.

initiated by the Pres. Roosevelts

Secretary of State to keep access to
Chinas markets; an attempt to
maintain the integrity of China;
expressed the idea of keeping China
in tact but allowing equal access to
her markets and free trade for
multiple European powers.

violence started by more

youthful and radical members of
a secret society in China that
wanted to bring about an end to
foreign intervention, interference,
and subjugation; prompted a
coalition of countries including
the US, and European powers to
send troops to quash it.

Secretary of State under the

Roosevelt Administration;
supported interventions around
the world, particularly in China and
in Latin America; led the US down
the road of a more imperialistic
foreign policy in the search for raw
materials, natural resources, and
markets to sell American goods.

President Tafts foreign

policy of initiating more
American investment by
corporations and big
business.

President Roosevelts
reassertion of the Monroe
Doctrine to keep the
Western Hemisphere
from intervention by
European powers.

set of conditions under

which Cuba was granted
independence in 1902,
including restrictions on
rights of Cubans and
granting the US the right to
intervene to preserve order.

a great naval display of power;

Pres. Roosevelt would send the
navy on a tour around the world
in 1907 on what he deemed a
good will cruise to show the
world the power and prestige of
the United States.

Name_______________________

CH9: An Emerging Empire 1890-1

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Concept

Imperialism
Manifest Destiny
causes of Imperialism
Alfred T. Mahan
Social Darwinism
White Mans Burden
William Seward
Annexation of Hawaii
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Frederick J. Turner
Queen Liliuokalani
William McKinley

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