Unit 11 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 21
Chapter 21 – Toward Empire, 1867-1902
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Spanish-American War, 1898 (causes and effects)
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Compare and contrast new American expansionism to earlier
American expansionism.
Reasons for the growing sense of internationalism beginning in
the 1870s and reasons for looking outward (pg. 613).
Ideas of racial superiority and their influence (i.e. Social
Darwinism, “biogenetic law”, Anglo-Saxon superiority).
Josiah Strong’s Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present
Crisis (1885)
American Foreign Policies (1867-1900) – pg. 616-618
William H. Seward (“Seward’s Folly”)
James G. Blaine
Tariff and Trade reciprocity agreements
Pan-American Union (Organization of American States)
Richard Olney
Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Dispute
Monroe Doctrine (1823) and its use during the late 1800s.
Beginning of Anglo-American friendship (aka The Great
Rapprochement)
American interests in Hawaii
Effects of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 on U.S.-Hawaiian trade
Queen Liliuokalani
Annexation of Hawaii
Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon
History, 1660-1783
Spanish-American War (causes and effects)
Effects of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 on U.S.-Cuban
trade
General Valeriano Weyler (aka “Butcher Weyler”)
“reconcentration” policy
yellow journalism / the yellow press
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Joseph Pulitzer
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William Randolph Hearst and Frederic Remington
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“You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
USS Maine
Dupuy de Lôme letter (pg. 622-623)
“Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain!”
Teller Amendment (pg. 623)
John Hay – “a splendid little war”
U.S. military strategies against Spain.
Commodore George Dewey
Manila Bay, Philippines
Quantánamo Bay, Cuba
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
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Kettle Hill
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San Juan Hill
Puerto Rico
Treaty of Paris, 1898
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Terms of the treaty (pg. 628-629)
Anti-imperialist protests against the peace treaty.
Anti-Imperialist League
Filipino Insurgents
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Philippine-American War
Emilio Aquinaldo
Election of 1900 (pg. 631)
William Howard Taft and the Philippine Commission
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“benevolent assimilation”
De Lima v. Bidwell, Dooley v. U.S., and Downes v. Bidwell
(Insular Cases)
Foraker Act of 1900
Platt Amendment
China and “spheres of influence”
John Hay’s Open Door Notes
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
“closing the bloody chasm” (U.S. North/South relations
following the Spanish-American War)
Unit 11 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 21
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