FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 27

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 27

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Question 1: Alfred Thayer Mahan

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argued in "Influence of Sea Power Upon History" that sea control leads to world dominance; led to imperialist sentiment

Question 2: Anti-Imperialist League

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objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire

Question 3: Maine

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an American ship that blew up in a Havana port in 1898; after this incident war with Spain became imminent

Question 4: Treaty of Paris

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1898; concluded the Spanish-American War; America got Guam, Puerto Rico, and paid $20 mil for the Philippines; Cuba was freed from Spain

Question 5: Theodore Roosevelt

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26th president; hero of the Spanish-American war; built the Panama Canal during his administration; carried the "big stick"

Question 6: Pan-American Conference

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an international organization that dealt with trade; organized by James G. Blaine to encourage trust and cooperation within the manufacturers

Question 7: imperialism

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a policy in which a nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically

Question 8: jingoism

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extreme patriotism, often favoring aggressive foreign policy

Question 9: insular cases

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1901; the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution did not extend to the Philippines and Puerto Rico

Question 10: reconcentration

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policy of moving Cubans to detention camps so they could not aid rebels

Question 11: Foraker Act

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1900; Congress agreed to give Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government

Question 12: Dupuy de Lomé

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Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a letter in which he called President McKinley weak and bitter; played up by Hearst using yellow journalism

Question 13: James G. Blaine

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published the "big sister policy", which aimed to rally Latin American countries behind American leadership and open Latin American trade markets

Question 14: Emilio Aguinaldo

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led the Filipino push for independence

Question 15: Valeriano Weyler

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Spanish general in Cuba who herded many civilians into concentration camps

Question 16: Teller Amendment

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proclaimed that the US would give Cubans freedom when it overthrew Spanish misrule

Question 17: Rough Riders

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volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American war

Question 18: George Dewey

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US naval officer who is remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish American War; led the American attack on the Philippines

Question 19: Platt Amendment

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amendment to the Cuban Constitution that authorized US intervention in Cuba to protect its interests; Cuba pledged not to make treaties with other countries that might compromise its independence and it granted naval bases to the US

Question 20: Richard Olney

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Cleveland's secretary of state; claimed that Britain would violate the Monroe Doctrine if it claimed Venezuela