Chapter 10

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Chapter 10America Claims an Empire

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1. A U.S. naval leader who urged government
officials to build up American naval power in
order to compete with other powerful nations.
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2. The U.S. policy of using the nations
economic power to exert influence over other
countries.
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3. Messages sent by Secretary of State John Hay
in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain,
France, Italy, and Japan, asking the countries
not to interfere with U.S. trading rights in
China.
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4. The policy of extending a nations authority
over other countries by economic, political, or
military means.
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5. An artificial waterway cut through the
Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened in 1914.
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6. A volunteer cavalry regiment, commanded by
Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, that served
in the Spanish-American War.
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7. U.S. Secretary of State that arranged to buy
Alaska from the Russians for 7.2 million.
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8. Legislation passed by Congress in 1900, in
which the U.S. ended military rule in Puerto Rico
and set up a civil government.
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9. 1898The treaty ending the Spanish-American
War, in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the
islands of Guam and Puerto Rico to the United
States, and sold the Philippines to the United
States for 20 million.
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10. A U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded
and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on
February 15, 1898.
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11. A Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New
York that organized Cuban resistance against
Spain died in 1895 fighting for Cuban
independence.
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12. The use of sensationalized and exaggerated
reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract
readers.
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13. An extension of the Monroe Doctrine,
announced by President Theodore Roosevelt in
1904, under which the U.S. claimed the right to
protect its economic interests by means of
military intervention in the affairs of Western
Hemisphere nations.
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14. Headed the government in Hawaii after the
U.S. overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in the late
1890s.
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15. U.S. Commodore that gave the command to open
fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the
Philippine capital he and his men destroyed
every Spanish ship there in May 1898.