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Vocabulary Story- Imperialism
Word Bank- Each word is used once: Cross out the words you use as you go…
Christianity Navy Boxer RebellionYellow Journalism George Washington raw materials
Isolationism Seward’s Folly Teddy Roosevelt
Central America Annex domestic policy
Sphere of Influence James Monroe sugar cane
Monroe Doctrine sovereignty Spain
Open Door Policy Hawaii Manifest Destiny
Pro-Expansionists USS Maine Alaska
Pearl Harbor Spanish-American War Anti-Expansionists
Big Stick Policy Imperialism Foreign Policy
Dollar Diplomacy Rough Riders Panama
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______ recommended to the United States a policy of ______when he left office in 1896 in his famous Farwell Address. He said “Beware of foreign entanglements and alliances.” This warning led to the United States foreign policy of Isolationism that lasted almost 100 years. This means we stayed out of other countries problems and focused on United States ______ instead.
In 1823, President ______ warned Europeans to stay out of the western hemisphere with his official statement called the ______. Our part of the world was now CLOSED for colonization. This was to try and help the United States avoid being pulled into any foreign affair issues.
The view of United States Isolationism will start to come to an end with belief in ______ will start to spread beyond US boarders. This new idea from the mid-1800’s was the belief that the United States should expand from ocean to ocean. Some thought we should go farther. People who believed in spreading US influence overseas were called ______. People who were opposed to spreading overseas were called ______.
There were many reasons for wanted to expand our influence overseas. This included the increased need for ______, the belief that we should spread ______, and wanted to compete with other countries. By spreading to other countries around the world we were able to open up trade with more countries bringing in more goods. We were also able to increase the bases for the United States ______ and allow for more ships and supplies throughout the Pacific Ocean.
The US began to ______(added on) new territories around the world under this new policy known as ______. However the US was taking over land before the 1890’s like with the purchase of ______in 1867 known as ______. It is called this because many American’s believed we had purchased a large icebox, but literally it was a gold mine.
The US soon became interested in ______. There were so many countries that had a ______ or area in China where a country had special trade privileges that the US was afraid they would never be able to trade with China. Therefore they began the ______ that stated there should be open trade in China. There were so many countries present in China and taking advantage of it that a group called the Righteous Fists of Harmony began the ______ to remove these countries from China. This was quickly ended and China was kept under foreign influence.
Another area of interest was in ______ (parts of South American and Caribbean). The US was upset when ______ invaded Cuba and took it over. President McKinley sent the ______ to Havana to keep an eye on things. It was allegedly bombed by the Spanish and sunk starting the ______. Stories using sensationalism (appealing to the people’s senses) were written in newspapers, showing the Spanish as savage beasts treating the Cubans horrible. This style of reporting is known as ______.
One of the most famous battles of the Spanish American War was led by ______and his ______ (the men who fought along-side him). As a result of the war the US gained territories such as Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Cuba and the Philippines wanted to have ______ (the right to rule your own country, but only Cuba was granted full independence.
In 1898, the US annexed the island of ______ in the Pacific. The US planters that were living there had overthrown the government of Queen Liliuokalani. They forced her to step down and elected their own leaders. The island was a good addition for the US because it had a good climate for growing cash crops like ______. It also provided a great military base which is still there today called ______.
When McKinley was assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt took over and started a new ______ (conduct of one country towards another one). Roosevelt’s policy was called his ______. The US would intervene in any issues in Latin America to “help”. Roosevelt also had his eye on ______ in Latin America. He thought that he could shorten the route from the Atlantic to the Pacific by constructing the Panama Canal. This further emerged the US in the affairs of Latin America. Later, to make relations better with Latin America, President Taft introduced the ______ to encourage Americans to invest in Latin America.