Ch.27 - Empire and Expansion (unfinished)

Question 1

how did the us regard the outside world in the years right after the civil war

Answer 1

they were more focused on rebuilding the tears in the nation, both physical and otherwise, and the dream of coast to coast manifest destiny and american expansion

Question 2

from right after the civil war to the end of the 1800s how did the foreign policy change

Answer 2

age of empire, imperialism, going against anticolonial views

Question 3

what is yellow journalism and what are the effects

Answer 3

yellow journalism is colored journalism, embellishing or even outright changing news to push an agenda and cause public unrest. it pushes people to be more concerned about things or think they’re worse than they actually are and they propel events into motion, like asking representatives to support a declaration of war

Question 4

what were the effects of overseas expansion on missionaries

Answer 4

they now had more people they could convert, christian missionaries

Question 5

darwinism

Answer 5

survival of the fittest so the people currently prospering are the fittest and have gone through natural selection and are the top goat

Question 6

what country was split up to be colonized in the 1880s and by whom

Answer 6

africa was split up to be colonized by western european powers and BUT NOT US and not a single african was at the meeting

Question 7

why did all the great powers want to have the best navy

Answer 7

because mahan said the key to world dominance was having control of the sea, and the only way to do that was to have a great navy

Question 8

big sister policy

Answer 8

“Big Sister” policy aimed to gain Latin American support of U.S. leadership and to open Latin American markets to U.S. products. – Essentially guaranteed U.S. hegemony (leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.) in Latin America in 1880s.

Question 9

at the tail end of the nineteenth century why did america and germany almost go to war

Answer 9

because of the samoan islands so we just split them up

Question 10

how was america viewed in the late nineteenth century

Answer 10

very aggressive and seeminly eager to start war over minor issues

Question 11

monroe doctrine

Answer 11

warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. if you were already here you could stay, but don’t meddle with us affairs and don’t make new colonies

Question 12

who was richard olney and what did he do

Answer 12

secretary of state to president cleveland and wrote the note saying us was number one naval power and britain needed to back off and leave venezuela alone because monroe doctrine

Question 13

what were the effects of olney’s note

Answer 13

britain was like yeah whatever just america being aggressive again, and the whole us public got worked up and wanted to go to war. we almost did but britain was facing hostility from much closer neighbors so they were like whatever and sought our friendship

Question 14

great rapprochement

Answer 14

The Great Rapprochement was the convergence of diplomatic, political, military, and economic objectives of the United States and the British Empire

Question 15

how did us first get involved with hawaii

Answer 15

christian missionaries went over // we had sugar production with them

Question 16

in the beginning of their relationship how was us disrespectful to hawaii

Answer 16

everyone in the world saw them as their own country, which they were, but us saw them as a part of us

Question 17

how and why did the us “secure” hawaii

Answer 17

state department told other people to back off and it signed deal with hawaii for us naval base because we wanted naval base and also to keep it away from japan who was eyeing it

Question 18

who worked for us sugar production in hawaii

Answer 18

not many hawaiians anymore so imported chinese and japanese

Question 19

mckinley tariff

Answer 19

The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%, an increase designed to protect domestic industries and workers from foreign competition, as promised in the Republican platform. It represented protectionism, a tactic supported by Republicans and denounced by Democrats.

Foreign trade increased; The McKinley Tariff was unpopular with American consumers and labor and caused political damage on the Republican Party in the election of 1892, many were voted out; caused an economic and political crisis in Hawaii by destroying its favored position in the sugar trade.

Question 20

what was the name of the queen of hawaii

Answer 20

queen liliuokalani

Question 21

insurrectos

Answer 21

Cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial Spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economic interests in Cuban plantations and railroads.

Question 22

the maine

Answer 22

American battleship dispatched to keep a “friendly” watch over Cuba in early 1898. It mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, with a loss of 260 sailors. Later evidence confirmed that the explosion was accidental, resulting from combustion in one of the ship’s internal coal bunkers. But many Americans, eager for war, insisted that it was the fault of a Spanish submarine mine.

Question 23

teller amendment

Answer 23

A proviso to President William McKinley’s war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the United States had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom. The amendment testified to the ostensibly “anti-imperialist” designs of the initial war plans.

Question 24

where did the spanish american war start and why

Answer 24

manila bay in the philippines because they were also under control of the spanish and roosevelt sent dewey there to send a message

Question 25

why did mckinley want to annex hawaii

Answer 25

because people were starting to get wind of how important geographically hawaii was to the us so he was worried that during the spanish american war we would be distracted and someone like japan would try and take it

Question 26

rough riders

Answer 26

- Organized by Theodore Roosevelt, this was a colorful, motley regimen of Cuban war volunteers consisting of western cowboys, ex-convicts, and effete Ivy leaguers. Roosevelt emphasized his experience with the regiment in subsequent campaigns for Governor of New York and Vice-President under William McKinley.

Question 27

what was the treaty that came out of the spanish american war

Answer 27

the treaty of paris Representatives of Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million.

Question 28

why were the philippines a crisis of national identity for the us

Answer 28

the other places they conquered were far less populated and diverse, and they were also geographically much smaller. but the philippines has tons of people, tons of different people, it's a huge place, and it's really saying like hey us you can't not face it anymore guess what you're a colonizing mother country

Question 29

anti imperialist league

Answer 29

diverse group formed in order to protest American colonial oversight in the Philippines. It included university presidents, industrialists, clergymen, and labor leaders. Strongest in the Northeast, the Anti-imperialist League was the largest lobbying organization on a U.S. foreign-policy issue until the end of the nineteenth century. It declined in strength after the United States signed the Treaty of Paris (which approved the annexation of the Philippines), and especially after hostilities broke out between Filipino nationalists and American forces.

Question 30

foraker act

Answer 30

Sponsored by Senator Joseph B. Foraker, a Republican from Ohio, this accorded Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. It was the first comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish American War, and served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines in 1902.

Question 31

insular cases

Answer 31

Sponsored by Senator Joseph B. Foraker, a Republican from Ohio, this accorded Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. It was the first comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish American War, and served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines in 1902.

Question 32

the us left cuba but they really didn't leave cuba. what was their legacy. explain

Answer 32

platt amendment: Following its military occupation, the United States successfully pressured the Cuban government to write this amendment into its constitution. It limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the United States could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit.

Question 33

why were the puerto ricans the farthest below the poverty line

Answer 33

because transit was cheap enough that they went back and forth between puerto rico and the us so they could work here but still visit and be with their family but all this travel caused them not to have time for education or much advancement at their jobs

Question 34

why were filippinos upset after the spanish american war

Answer 34

they thought they'd get their freedom like everyone else but they didn't so they were mad and emilio who helped the us against spanish now went against the us for filipino freedonm

Question 35

how did flipinos react to americans coming in

Answer 35

trash they hated it and they hated assimilation it was awful

Question 36

open door note

Answer 36

message send by secretary of state John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy & Japan asking the countries not to interfere with US trading rights in China. without the consent or knowledge of china, us just wanted in on it

Question 37

boxer rebellion

Answer 37

A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out. Was ended by British Troops.

Question 38

second open door note

Answer 38

hay said they respected china's integrity and got chinese into the nine power treaty (The Nine Power Treaty was signed in 1922 by a group of 9 countries. These countries signed the treaty in order to protect relations with China. The 9 countries were the US, Belgium, China, France, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and England.)

Question 39

why did roosevelt become president

Answer 39

because six months into his second term mckinley was assasinated and roosevelt was vice so he gotta step up

Question 40

how did roosevelt's policies compare to mckinley's

Answer 40

mckinley wanted to use the government to do the things that the people wanted, really represent the people. roosevelt used the government to sway public opinion and gaslight them into supporting his interests. he also had less regard for checks and balances and was very loud in a figurative sense

Question 41

why did us want panama

Answer 41

important for military passage and for trade passage to cut down travel time

Question 42

hay paunceforte treaty

Answer 42

because of friendly relations with Britain, Britain signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty in 1901, which allowed the U.S. to build and fortify the canal.

Question 43

roosevelt corollary

Answer 43

Questionable extension of a traditional American policy; declared an American right to intervene in Latin America nations under certain circumstances

Question 44

gentleman's agreement

Answer 44

An agreement with Japan where Japan agreed to limit immigration, and Roosevelt agreed to discuss with the San Francisco School Board that segregation of Japanese children in school would be

Question 45

root takahira agreement

Answer 45

In this agreement, both governments agreed to: 1) maintain the status quo in the Pacific; 2) assure equal opportunity to develop trade and industry in China; 3) recognize the territories possessed by each country in the Pacific region; 4) respect China's territorial integrity and independence.