Unit F Vocab

Question 1

isolationism

Answer 1

having no or little affairs with other countries

Question 2

expansionism

Answer 2

expanding a countries boundaries

Question 3

annex

Answer 3

policy to add on a territory to another country

Question 4

imperialism

Answer 4

powerful countries seek control of economic and political affairs of weaker regions

Question 5

intervention

Answer 5

policy of having direct involvement with other countries

Question 6

sphere of influence

Answer 6

an area in which a foreign nation had special trading privileges

Question 7

yellow journalism

Answer 7

exaggeration of the truth in newspapers and magazines

Question 8

propaganda

Answer 8

spreading of ideas that help cause or hurt an opposition cause

Question 9

armistice

Answer 9

an agreement to stop fighting

Question 10

protectorate

Answer 10

a nation whose independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country

Question 11

indemnity

Answer 11

compensation for hurt, loss, or damages

Question 12

free trade

Answer 12

system with nonsignificant trade barriers

Question 13

jingoism

Answer 13

exaggerated national pride

Question 14

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 14

a policy of building economic ties to Latin America in the early 1900s

Question 15

Open Door Policy

Answer 15

policy toward china that allowed a nation to trade in any other nation’s “sphere of influence”

Question 16

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 16

an opposition movement by the group of Chinese rebellions known as boxers who opposed the Open Door Policy and and the Sphere of Influence Policy placed on China by foreign nations

Question 17

USS Maine

Answer 17

a US battleship sent to Cuba to help protect American citizens and property, which exploded and was blamed on the Spanish which was a cause of the war

Question 18

Spanish American War

Answer 18

war b/w Spain and the US that stretched from the Caribbean to the Philippine Island

Question 19

Battle of San Juan Hill

Answer 19

Battle of the Spanish- American War that ended the war

Question 20

Platt Amendment

Answer 20

an amendment in the Cuban constitution that stated that allowed the US to intervene in Cuba and gave America naval control of Guantanamo Bay

Question 21

Foraker Act

Answer 21

America set up a government in Puerto Rico which limited them to having a say in US affairs

Question 22

Panama Canal

Answer 22

waterway linking the Atlantic and the Pacific that was built by and controlled by the US which would help them develop into a world power

Caused many deaths Bc of diseases

Question 23

Dilomé Letter

Answer 23

Spanish minister sent a letter to the US trashing president McKinley making him look weak, which was a cause of his frustration, and lead to a part of the war

Question 24

Social Dawinism

Answer 24

the belief that only the strongest nations would survive in this world

Question 25

Maifest Destiny

Answer 25

The belief that god had given the US the rights to expand westard