Chapter 10
“America Claims an
Empire”
Visual Vocabulary
1st
1. A U.S. naval leader who urged government
officials to build up American naval power in
order to compete with other powerful nations.
2. The U.S. policy of using the nation’s
economic power to exert influence over other
countries.
3. Messages sent by Secretary of State John Hay in
1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy,
and Japan, asking the countries not to interfere with
U.S. trading rights in China.
4. The policy of extending a nation’s authority
over other countries by economic, political, or
military means.
5. An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of
Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, opened in 1914.
6. A volunteer cavalry regiment, commanded by
Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, that served in
the Spanish-American War.
7. U.S. Secretary of State that arranged to buy
Alaska from the Russians for 7.2 million.
8. Legislation passed by Congress in 1900, in
which the U.S. ended military rule in Puerto
Rico and set up a civil government.
9. 1898;The treaty ending the Spanish-American War,
in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the islands of
Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and sold
the Philippines to the United States for 20 million.
10. A U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded
and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on
February 15, 1898.
11. A Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New
York that organized Cuban resistance against
Spain; died in 1895 fighting for Cuban
independence.
12. The use of sensationalized and
exaggerated reporting by newspapers or
magazines to attract readers.
13. An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by President
Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, under which the U.S. claimed the
right to protect its economic interests by means of military
intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.
14. Headed the government in Hawaii after the
U.S. overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in the late
1890’s.
15. U.S. Commodore that gave the command to open
fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine
capital; he and his men destroyed every Spanish ship
there in May 1898.