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U.S. History
Chapter 10 – America Claims an Empire
Terms
Queen Liliuokalani: Last monarch of Hawaii

Yellow Journalism: the use of sensationalized

and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or
magazines to attract
Imperialism: Political, Economic, and Social readers.
domination of one country by another

U.S.S. Maine: US Battleship that exploded in

Havana Harbor, Cuba due to a freak accident.

Alfred T. Mahan: author of The Influence of Sea

Power upon History and called for an increase in
US naval power
George Dewey: Leader of the Battle of Manila Bay
in the Spanish-American War.

William Seward: Bought Alaska for 7.2 Million

Manilla Bay: The American Asiatic Squadron

under Commodore George Dewey engaged and
destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron

Pearl Harbor: US naval base based on Honolulu

Hawaii Teller Amendment: stated that the US will not
annex Cuba after the war.

Sanford B. Dole: acted as president of Hawaii after

Queen Lili was thrown out of reign. Rough Riders: a volunteer cavalry regiment,
commanded by Leonard Wood and Theodore
Roosevelt, that served in the Spanish-American
War. Made the famous charge up San Juan Hill

Spanish-American War: A war between Spain

and the United States, fought in 1898.
The war began as an intervention by the United
States on behalf of Cuba.
Jose Marti: a Cuban revolutionary, poet, and
journalist.
San Juan Hill: bloodiest and most famous battle of
the war. It was also the location of the so called
"greatest victory" for the Rough Riders, as stated
by the press and its new commander, Theodore
Roosevelt,

Treaty of Paris (1898): the treaty ending the
Spanish-American War, in which Spain freed
Cuba, turned over the islands of Guam and
Puerto Rico to the United States, and sold the
Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
Foraker Act: legislation passed by Congress in
1900, in which the U.S. ended military rule in
Puerto Rico and set up a civil government.
Platt Amendment: a series of provisions that, in
1901, the United States insisted Cuba add to its
new constitution, commanding Cuba to stay out of
debt and giving the United States the right to
intervene in the country and the right to buy or
lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations
Protectorate: a country whose affairs are
partially controlled by a stronger power.
Emilio Aguinaldo: was a Filipino general who
played an important role in the Philippine
Revolution against Spain
John Hay: Secretary of State and creator of the
Open Door Policy
Open Door Policy: messages sent by Secretary of
State John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great
Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, asking the
countries not to interfere with U.S. trading
rights in China.
Boxer Rebellion: a 1900 rebellion in which
members of a Chinese secret society sought to
free their country from Western influence.
Panama Canal: an artificial waterway cut
through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a
shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
opened in 1914.
Russo-Japanese War: war between Russia and
Japan over control of Korean peninsula; mediated
by Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary: an extension of the Monroe
Doctrine, announced by President Theodore
Roosevelt in 1904, under which the United States
claimed the right to protect its economic
interests by means of military intervention in the
affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.
Dollar Diplomacy: the U.S. policy of using the
nation’s economic power to exert influence over
other countries
Missionary Diplomacy: The USA has a moral
responsibility to deny recognition to any Latin
American gov't it viewed as oppressive,
undemocratic, or hostile to US interests
Francisco “Pancho” Villa: Mexican revolutionary
general and one of the most prominent figures of
the Mexican Revolution
Emiliano Zapata: leading figure in the Mexican
Revolution, the main leader of the peasant
revolution
John J. Pershing: Hired by President Wilson to
hunt down Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata