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protectorate

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A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.

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Boxer Rebellion

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A group of Chinese who opposed people coming into their country trying to promote government and religion.

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Panama Canal

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A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean using locks that raise and lower boats.

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William Seward

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United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson who offered to buy Alaska for 7.2 million dollars from Russia.

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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Rebel leader of the Philippines who believed that the United States had promised freedom and taught other people to fight for their freedom.

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Imperailism

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The policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means

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Platt Amendment

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A new amendment added to the Cuban constitution that demanded that Cuba stay out of debt and give the right to the United States to intervene in the country's affairs.

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John Hay

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United States Secretary of State that created that created the Open Door Notes that said that other imperialist nations share their trading rights with the United States

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Valeriano Weyler

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General sent by Spain to help end the Cuban revolt. He took rural farmers and put them into concentration camps where they were killed and the Cubans lost a reliable source of food.

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Alfred Mahan

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One leader of the United States Navy who encouraged the president to build up the US Navy in order to compete with other powerful nations.

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U.S.S. Maine

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A United States warship that was internally destroyed. Yellow Press Journalism made people believe that the Spanish had blown up the ship.

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Yellow Journalism

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The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers

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Pancho Villa

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A military leader in Mexico who the United States did not like and ended up causing a United States invasion of Mexico.

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Open Door Policy

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A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.

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Foraker Act

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set up a civil government in Puerto Rico and allowed the United States president to choose the leader of Puerto Rico and it's high government officials.

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Dollar Diplomacy

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Foreign policy created by William H. Taft that guaranteed loans from other nations in the Caribbean.

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Roosevelt Corollary

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An extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which the United States claimed the right to use police force to protect their economic interests in Latin America.

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Treaty of Paris

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The treaty ending the Spanish-American War, in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the island of Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and sol the Philippines to the United States for $20 million

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Theodoore Roosevelt

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26th President of the United States of **ing America.

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Big Stick Policy

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Roosevelt's idea to ask for things first but to bring an army to make the people they are asking feel pressured into doing what the United States wants.

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George Dewey

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A United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, U.S. naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines

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John J. Pershing

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A United States general who followed Mexican leader Pancho Villa and led a group of 15,000 men to capture the leader dead or alive

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Rough Riders

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a volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt that helped fight with the Cuban revolution.

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