APUSH Term Sheet
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
Identify and explain the significance of the following terms:
Reverend Josiah Strong / Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan / The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
“Big Sister” Policy
Samoan Islands
The Great Rapprochement
McKinley Tariff
Queen Liliuokalani
“Butcher” Weyler
Depuy de Lome
U.S.S. Maine
Teller Amendment
Commodore George Dewey / Battle of Manila Bay
Emilio Aguinaldo
General William Shafter
Rough Riders
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Anti-Imperialist League
Foraker Act
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment / Guantanamo
Closing of the “Bloody Chasm”
Filipino Insurrection
William Taft, Governor of the Philippines
Secretary of State John Hay / Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Election of 1900
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850 / Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 1901
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
Portsmouth Treaty
Japanese School Incident / “Gentleman’s Agreement”
Great White Fleet
Root-Takahira agreement