Chapter 25 - The Spanish-American War and the Imperialism Debate

________- Economic competition + defense.

Economic competition + defense

The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Sugar + tobacco + coffee

Cuban slave revolt w/ modern weapons

Cuban concentration camps

Sensationalize news → Boost circulation

Maine protects Americans

Destroyed + sunk in explosion

"Remember the Maine! "

Teller Amendment (US doesnt want to interfere in Cuban affairs)

Platt Amendment

American sugar + fruit planters overthrew Queen Liliuokalani

Pro-annexation

Annexed Hawaiian islands

US islands stocked w/ coal

John Hay

Wanted to overthrow Qing Dynasty

Kill all foreigners in China

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (allowed canal zone)

Completed

Guerilla fighter

Gain Pacific Ocean territories

Panama Canal + Great White Fleet

The great debate over American overseas expansion saw the two main strands of exceptionalist belief come into direct conflict with one another

A diplomatic term denoting an area in which a foreign power or powers exerts significant military, cultural, or economic influence

A United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century"

The revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba

A war between the United States and Spain in 1898

A Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World

A United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April

Proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba

A nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat

The largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks

Repositories of fuel that have been located to service commercial and naval vessels

A series of decisions by the justices beginning in 1901 concerning the constitutional rights of residents of U.S. territories acquired in the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War

An armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899, to July 2, 1902

Called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity

An uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government

Stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries

A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States

The popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships which completed a journey around the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909 by order of President Theodore Roosevelt

Diplomacy influenced by economic considerations

A key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911