Imperialism Vocab 23-1 Flashcards
(15 cards)
U.S. Secretary of state who arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.
William seaward
Name given to John Hay’s idea of open trade among spheres.
Open door policy
Signed by U.S. and Japan in 1854 to secure help for shipwrecked and stranded sailors, and to open two Japanese ports to trade with the U.S.
Treaty of Kanagawa
Author of the influential book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History. He argued that U.S. prosperity depended on foreign trade, and that a bigger navy and naval bases in the pacific and Caribbean were needed to enforce and protect trade.
Alfred Mayan
Name given to the expanded U.S. navy of 1900. Ships steel hulls were painted white.
Great white fleet
To take over or add to, as in the U.S. annexed Midway Island in 1867.
Annex
The policy of prejudice against a race as being inferior.
racism
Last Queen of Hawaii, yielded her authority to the U.S. to avoid violent armed conflict.
Liluokalani
The policy of increasing the size of the nation .
Expansionism
Chinese resistance against “foreign devils”, or westerners. In 1900, the “boxers” (Chinese secret society based in martial arts) attacked and killed over 200 foreigners. Foreign troops, including 2500 American soldiers responded, fighting their way into Beijing, freeing trapped foreigners and crushing the resistance.
boxer rebellion
An area around a seaport where a nation has special trading privileges, such as those of Britain, France, Germany and Russia in Chinese Ports in the 1800’s.
spheres of influence
A policy of having little to do with foreign nations.
Isolationism
The policy of a powerful country seeking rule or control over less powerful countries.
Imperialism
U.S. Secretary of State who sent a letter in 1899 urging China’s trading partners to open their “spheres of influence” to trade with the spheres of others.
John hay
Commodore of U.S. Navy, sent by president Fillmore in 1853 and 1854 to negotiate western trade with japan
Mathew Perry
