Imperialism

Question 0

Post war foreign policy

Answer 0

1. imperialism

2. uphold Monroe doctrine

Question 1

Ante-Bellum foreign policy

Answer 1

1. isolation from Europe

2. Uphold Monroe doctrine

Question 2

Factors encouraging imperialism

Answer 2

1. economics
2. yellow press
3. religion
4. social Darwinism
5. captain Alfred Mahan
   - navy is key to power

Question 3

Alaska

Answer 3

U.s. Squires from Russia

Question 4

Hawaii

Answer 4

#1 crop = sugar 
#1 customer = USA 
NE missionaries were first Americans to move to Hawaii

Question 5

Last queen of Hawaii

Answer 5

Liliuokalani

Question 6

McKinley tariff effects

Answer 6

Raises taxes on foreign sugar

Missionarie boys overthrow Hawaiian government and create a new one

Immediately request annexation from USA

Question 7

First governor of Hawaii

Answer 7

Stanford Dole (fruit master)

Question 8

Samoa

Answer 8

Both US and Germant want Pago Pago

Question 9

Pan Am Conference

Answer 9

Goal: become #1 trading partners w/ Latin America

Question 10

Venezuela

Answer 10

Gold discovered along border of Venezuela and British Ghana

Am get involved due to Monroe doctrine in fear that Britain may invade Venezuela.
Resulting in arbitration to see who gets the gold.
After this Britain tries to improve relations with the USA

Question 11

Spanish - American war

Answer 11

Cuba = sugar based economy 
#1 customer = USA 
Am raises tax on sugar which destroyed Cuban economy 
Rebellions start

Question 12

Weyler

Answer 12

Branded as butcher by am press

Question 13

De lôme

Answer 13

Newspaper prints letter written by him talking about McKinley being weak.
American public is outraged

Question 14

U.s. Maine

Answer 14

Explodes in Havana harbor and US blames Spain.

Question 15

Teller amendment

Answer 15

Cuba must be independent
Spanish must go
Gives pres authority to use force
US promises to annex Cuba

Question 16

Emilio Aquinaldo

Answer 16

Philippine leader
U.S and Filipinos take over Manila
US decides to keep Philippines for itself

Question 17

Wm Shafter

Answer 17

In charge of Cuba for America

Question 18

Rough riders

Answer 18

Commander - Leonard wood

2nd in command - Teddy Roosevelt

Question 19

Santiago

Answer 19

Battle of El Caney

1. Kettle Hill
2. San Juan Hill

Question 20

Santiago

Answer 20

Admiral Pascal Cervera

Question 21

Treaty of Paris 1899

Answer 21

Cuba gains independence

U.S. Gains Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico

Question 22

Positive results of the war

Answer 22

1. Helped heal wounds between north and south

2. U.S. Becomes a world power in the Far East

Question 23

Constitutional Problem from war

Answer 23

Does U.S. Constitution apply to colonies?

- NO

Question 24

First governor of the Philippines

Answer 24

William Taft

Question 25

Hague Conference

Answer 25

Tsar Nicholas ll | Goal: reduce size of the worlds armies

Question 26

Sec of state John Hay

Answer 26

Open door policy | - Garuntee American access to Chinese markets

Question 27

Boxer rebellion

Answer 27

Boxers want to kill all foreigners | Boxers are defeated by multi-national army

Question 28

Hay-Pauncefote treaty

Answer 28

Britain surrenders rights to build a canal in panama to US

Question 29

Hay-Bunaw-Varilla treaty

Answer 29

U.S gains right to build a canal in Panama

Question 30

Morroco

Answer 30

Ian taken hostage for ransom

Question 31

Dominican Republic

Answer 31

Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine - U.S has a moral mandate to intervene and force the Latin am countries to pay their debts - U.S. Sends in trooped

Question 32

Russo-Japanese war

Answer 32

-Fighting for controll of Manchuria and Korea

Question 33

Tsushima Straits

Answer 33

Japanese wipeout Russian Armada

Question 34

Portsmouth Peace Conference

Answer 34

- Treaty is made between Russia and Japan. - Teddy Roosevelt wins peace prize - Japan and U.S become rivals in the pacific.

Question 35

Taft-Katsura agreement

Answer 35

U.s recognizes Japanese controll of Korea | Jap recognize am controll of Philippines

Question 36

Gentlemens agreement

Answer 36

Dealt w Japanese immigration to the US

Question 37

Root-takahira agreement

Answer 37

Japanese agree to respect open door policy in china