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28 Cards in this Set
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settlement of a dispute by a person chosen to listen to both sides
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Arbitration
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policy under which stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations
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Imperialism
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to join a new territory to an existing country
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Annex
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An aggressive feeling of pride.
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Nationalism
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areas of economic and political control
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Sphere of influence
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policy giving the United States equal access to trading rights in China
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Open Door
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country where affairs are partially controlled by a stronger nation
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Protectorate
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policy that established the United States as “an international police power”
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Roosevelt Corollary
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This was a major economic argument for expansion
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The United States needed new markets for its goods
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This event led to the Spanish-American War
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Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule and America wanted to help
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Why was the Open Door Policy important to the United States?
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It gave the United States access to millions of consumers in China
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Why did many of Roosevelt’s opponents disapprove of his actions in Panama?
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They opposed Roosevelt’s involvement in the Panamanian revolt.
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What was the central message of the Roosevelt Corollary?
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The United States would use force to prevent intervention in the affairs of neighboring countries by Imperialist powers.
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What connection was made between imperialism and the American frontier?
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Imperialism would offer Americans a new frontier to discover.
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Alfred T. Mahan argued that to protect its trade, the United States must build up its
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navy.
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President Theodore Roosevelt is often remembered for
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expanding presidential power.
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To support their view, anti-imperialists argued that
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imperialism rejected the American ideal of “liberty for all.”
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The United States acquired control of the Canal Zone by
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organizing a revolt in Panama
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European and American imperialism grew partly as a result of
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the need for foreign markets to sell products.
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Under imperialism, the stronger nation attempts to
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dominate a weaker country.
sell its products to a weaker country. create an empire. all of the above. |
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The banana republics of Central America were
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controlled by American business interests.
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American business leaders favored expansion in order to
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solve the economic problem of overproduction in American Factories
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Americans sided with the Cuban rebels against Spain as a result of
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yellow journalism making Americans mad.
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The United States wanted to build a canal across Panama to
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cut travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Roosevelt feared that the war between Japan and Russia would
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close the door to U.S. trade with China.
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President Taft was known for a foreign policy based on
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economic investment (Dollar Diplomacy).
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Anti-imperialists also objected to the
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costs of expansion for the U.S.
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People in foreign lands turned against the United States when it
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supported unpopular governments and intervened in business affairs
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