Chapter 27 Flashcards
(28 cards)
big sister policy
foreign policy of James G. Blaine (secretary of state), wanting to open Latin American markets to Yankee traders, & rallying Latin American nations on American leadership
Great Rapprochement
American diplomats began to cultivate close, cordial relations with Great Britain, which would intensify during WWI
McKinley Tariff
raised duties on Hawaiian sugar & put out efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the US
insurrectos
Cuban insurgents(rebels) who fought freedom from Spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economic interests in Cuban plantations & railroads
USS Maine
American battleship used to forward over a friendly watch over Cuba. Blowing up in Havana Harbor loosing 260 sailors, later evidence showing it was accidental, resulting from a combustion in one of the internal coal bunkers. Many Americans felt it was Spanish submarine mines fault
Teller Amendment
a condition added on to President William McKinley’s was plans, proclaimed that when the US overthrows Spain, Cuba’s freedom would be given. Testified against the “anti-imperialist” design of the original war plans
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt organized it, a colorful, diverse group of Cuban war volunteers like consisted of cowboys, ex-convicts, emphasizing it at campaigns for Governor of NY & McKinley’s VP
Anti-Imperialist League
diverse group formed in order to protest American colonial oversight in Philippines. Included university presidents, industrialists, clergymen, & labor leaders. Largest organization on the US foreign policy issue, declining after the US signed the Treaty of Paris & the hostilities broke out between Filipino nationalists & American forces
Foraker Act
granted Puerto Ricans a limited degree of a popular gov’t. First comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories needed after the Spanish American War, serving as a model for future acts in the Philippians
insular cases
Puerto Ricans & Filipinos wouldn’t enjoy all American rights, (Supreme Court proclaimed that within these cases, the Constitution didn’t follow the flag)
Plat Amendment
US pressured the Cuban gov’t to write this into the Constitution, which limited Cuba’s treaty-making abilities, controlling its debt, specifying the US could intervene the military, restoring order
open door note
diplomatic letters in which John Hay (Sec of State) suggested that the great powers should respect Chinese rights. Established the Open Door Policy; ensuring access to Chinese market for the US even though the US didn’t have a formal spheres of influence in China
Boxer Rebellion
uprising in China against foreign influence, crushed by international force of eighteen thousand soldiers, including thousands of Americans. Paving the way for the Rev. of 1911, leading to establishing the Republic of China in 1912
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
signed between the US & Great Britain, giving Americans a free hand to build a canal in Central America, nullifying the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 (prohibiting the British of US from acquiring territory in Central America
Roosevelt Corollary
policy of “preventive intervention” advocated by Roosevelt in his Annual Message to Congress, stipulating that the US would retain a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin Am. nations, restoring their military & finances
Root-Takahira agreement
US & Japan agreed to respect eachother’s territorial possessions in the Pacific, upholding the Open Door in China, created to ease tensions between them, resulting in a weakened American influence over further Japanese control over China
Josiah Strong
American clergyman, preached Anglo-Saxon superiority, calling for stronger US missionaries overseas
Alfred Thayer Mahan
American naval officer, wrote books that were influential, which emphasized sea power, advocating a big navy
James G. Blaine
advocated a “Big Sister” policy: Us domination in Latin America. Served as speaker of the house & Secretary of State under James A. Garfield & Chester A. Arthur
Richard Olney
US Secretary of State, used Monroe Doctrine to pressure Britain in the Venezuelan boundary crisis
Queen Lilukalani
Hawaiian ruler, overthrown in a revolution which was led by white planters, helped by US troops
“Butcher” Weyer
Spanish general, whose brutal tactics against Cuban rebels angered the American public opinion
Dupuy de Lome
Spanish minister to the US, found himself in the middle of a scandal when in 1898 the harsh private letter he wrote, about President McKinley was made public
George Dewey
naval commander who opens the doors to American imperialism in Asia due to his May Day victory in the Philippines in 1898
