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Chapter 14 Study Guide

People/Things to know:

Great White Fleet –

Yellow Journalism –

USS Maine –

Platt Amendment –

Open Door policy –

George Dewey –

Matthew C. Perry –

Imperialism –

William McKinley –

Panama Canal –

Hay Pancefote Treaty -

Anglo-Saxonism –

Protectorate –

Dollar Diplomacy –

Hay Buneau Varilla Treaty–

San Juan Heights –

Guantanamo Bay –

Theodore Roosevelt –

Emilio Aguinaldo –

William Howard Taft –

Queen Liliuokalani –

Sanford Dole -

Questions:

When and why did Matthew Perry lead a naval expedition to Japan?

In the late 1800s, why did support grow for the Unites States becoming an Imperialist Nation?

How was the Hawaiian monarchy overthrown and how did Hawaii eventually become a state?

What did supporters of annexing the Philippines believe it would do for the US?

What are the major reasons the Unites States was interested in acquiring Hawaii and the Philippines?

What doctrine was the Roosevelt Corollary an extension of?

What two newspapers most influenced the start of the Spanish-American War?

Describe the major military events of the Spanish American war?

How the United did States acquire the Panama Canal? What challenges and benefits did the United States receive from its construction?

Give 3 causes of the Spanish-American War.

List the territories acquired for the United States in 1898?