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FROM ISOLATION TO EMPIRE
Below is a list of important people, places, events, and terms to help you
study for the Unit X Exam. Be sure that you can identify and/or define each
of the items below. You should also be able to identify how each item
relates to the study of from Isolation to Empire in Unit X.
Alaska
William Seward
Klondike
C.S.S. Alabama
Treaty of Washington (1871)
Josiah Strong
Our Country
Rudyard Kipling
“White Man’s Burden”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power
Frederick Jackson Turner
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
Samoa
protectorate
Pago Pago
Hawaii (Sandwich Islands)
Kamehameha
Kalakaua
Reciprocity Treaty of 1875
Liliuokalani
Sanford B. Dole
Republic of Hawaii
annexation
Monroe Doctrine
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Suez Canal
Venezuela
arbitration
Spanish Empire
Cuba
Depression of 1893
guerilla warfare
scorched-earth policy
Valeriano Weyler
reconcentration camps
yellow journalism
“Yellow Kid”
Joseph Pultizer
New York World
William Randolph Hearst
New York Journal
jingoism
de Lôme Letter
U.S.S. Maine
William McKinley
Teller Amendment
THE AMERICAN NATION
George Dewey
Philippines
Manila Bay
Emilio Aguinaldo
William R. Shafter
Santiago
Battle of San Juan Hill
“Rough Riders”
Theodore Roosevelt
Puerto Rico
armistice
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Guam
“embalmed beef”
Platt Amendment
Foraker Act (1900)
Jones Act (1917)
imperialism vs. anti-imperialism
Anti-Imperialist League
Filipino Insurrection
Election of 1900
William Jennings Bryan
China
spheres of influence
Open Door Policy
John Hay
Boxers
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Manchuria
Port Arthur
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Nobel Peace Prize
San Francisco
segregation
Gentleman’s Agreement (1908)
Great White Fleet
U.S.S. Oregon
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)
Columbia
Canal Zone
William C. Gorgas
yellow fever
malaria
locks and dams
Panama Canal Treaty (1977)
Jimmy Carter
“Big Stick” Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Dominican Republic
William Howard Taft
“dollar diplomacy”
United Fruit Company
“Banana Republics”
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