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11th Grade
01/12/2011

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What president from the era 1880-1920 opposed Hawaiian annexation?
Definition
Grover Cleveland
Term
What did the insular cases decide?
Definition
the Constitution does not follow the flag
Term
What incident were the ABC powers called to mediate?
Definition
VeraCruz
Tampico
Term
What president resolved the Venezuelan boundary dispute?
Definition
Grover Cleveland
Term
What was William Jennings Bryan's solution for resolving international crises called?
Definition
cooling-off period
Term
What were the countries involved in the Samoan crisis?
Definition
US
Britain
Germany
Term
Who was the object of the Mexican incursion?
Definition
Poncho Villa
Term
What policy for the western hemisphere did James G. Blaine and William Jennings Bryan share?
Definition
Pan-Americanism
Term
Who were the two pillars of Yellow Journalism?
Definition
Hearst
Pulitzer
Term
What instructions did Frederic Remington receive during the uprising in Cuba?
Definition
You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war.
Term
What was the amendment to the war resolution against Spain and what was its main point?
Definition
Teller Amendment
US won't keep Cuba
Term
Were the irreconcilables Republicans, Democrats, or both?
Definition
both
Term
What were the four provisions of the Open Door Note?
Definition
1. no interference with spheres of influence already established
2. all nations get Chinese tariff concessions
3. China guaranteed territorial integrity and administrative integrity
4. treatment of all nations equally within each sphere of influence
Term
Who was DeLome?
Definition
Spanish minister who sent letter criticizing McKinley as being weak
Term
Did American businessmen see the Spanish-American War as a boost to business?
Definition
No
Term
Who was the leader of the Philippine revolution?
Definition
Aguinaldo
Term
Who said, "I took the Canal and let congress debate..."
Definition
TR
Term
What was the policy called when we said we have the right to exercise "international police power" whenever Latin American republics were unable to maintain order to fulfill their obligations to other nations?
Definition
Roosevelt Corollary
Term
What were two parts to dollar diplomacy?
Definition
1. US bankers encouraged to invest overseas
2. bankers assured their investments would be protected by US diplomacy
Term
What did the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua have in common with respect to the US?
Definition
intervention
Term
What were the four reasons we went into WWI on the side of GB?
Definition
1. Wilson was an anglophile
2. submarine warfare by Germany
3. economic ties with GB
4. prior tension with Germany
5. shared democratic heritage with GB
6. Zimmerman Note
7. GB propaganda
Term
Name four underlying causes of the Spanish-American War.
Definition
1. yellow press
2. sympathy for Cuban revolt
3. US interest in Cuba
4. demand for intervention by Jingos
Term
With respect to what country was the Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty concerned?
Definition
Panama
Term
With respect to what country was the Hay-Pauncefaute Treaty concerned?
Definition
Britain
Term
What was the pejorative term given to imperialists?
Definition
Jingos
Term
What did the Little Group of Willful Men oppose?
Definition
WWI
Term
Name four Jingos.
Definition
TR
Mahan
Hay
Beveridge
Lodge
Term
Name four Googoos.
Definition
Cleveland
Gompers
Carnegie
Shurz
Twain
Term
What was Wilson "watchfully waiting" for?
Definition
to see what Huerta would do
Term
Whom did Wilson appoint to the War Labor Policy Board?
Definition
Frankfurter
Term
What were three geographic advantages the US had in foreign policy?
Definition
1. geographical/physical separation
2. weak neighbors
3. room for expansion
4. 2-ocean coast
Term
What were six traditional or Fundamental Foreign Policies in US history?
Definition
1. isolation
2. freedom of the seas
3. Monroe Doctrine
4. Pan-Americanism
5. Open Door
6. peaceful settlement of disputes
Term
What did Carnegie, Gompers, and Cleveland have in common?
Definition
Googoos
Term
What proposal by Wilson enticed Germany to enter peace talks?
Definition
14 Points
Term
Name three immediate causes of the Spanish-American War.
Definition
1. DeLome letter
2. sinking of the Maine
3. McKinley's war message
Term
What was the long-range significance of the Spanish-American War?
Definition
1. Treaty of Paris
2. isolationism to interventionism
3. we got colonial empire and the resultant problems
4. we are now a 2-ocean power with interests in both
Term
What were three points the Supreme court made in the Insular Courts?
Definition
1. Constitution doesn't fully apply to the colonies
2. inhabitants depended on Congress to give them rights
3. right to put tariffs on our own colonies
Term
What were four basic causes for US entry into WWI?
Definition
1. anti-German feeling
2. common heritage with England and France
3. violation of neutral rights
4. idealism - making the world safe for democracy
5. British propaganda
6. Zimmerman Note
Term
What were three criticisms of the Versailles Peace conference process (includes any Wilson role from the time he left with his delegation to go there to the time he went back to Washington)?
Definition
1. Very partisan- took only one Republican in the delegation
2. Wilson went, ???
3. Compromised too much just to get the nation
4. Allowed many secret treaties
Term
What were three reasons in Washington for opposition to the Versailles Treaty once Wilson got back?
Definition
1. Republican opposition- no delegation
2. Don’t want to be involved in Europe or in an alliance! That means we will have to enter other wars. Violation of sovereignty
3.Wilson refused to compromise
Term
What were three indicators of isolationist tendencies arising in American policy as a result of WWI?
Definition
1. Demobilization- stood down our army
2. Rejection of the Treaty
3. World Court
4. Made Tariffs higher, lowered amount of trade
5. Limited immigration
6. Neutrality Act
Term
What are four factors that have influenced Americans foreign policy regardless of what era?
Definition
1. Geography
2. Weak neighbors
3. Room for expansion
4. Hyphenated Americans
5. Concern for Domestic affairs
Term
Name three separate foreign policies the US has followed at one time or another.
Definition
1. Non-intervention in Europe
2. Intervention in Latin America
3. Cooperation in the Far East
4. Isolationism
5. Freedom of the Seas
6. Pan- Americanism
Term
With respect to what country was "watchful waiting" applied and by whom?
Definition
to Mexico
by Wilson
Term
Name the pejorative term for anti-imperialists.
Definition
Googoos
Term
With what country did we have a Gentleman's Agreement and under whose presidency?
Definition
Japan
TR
Term
To whom was the Zimmerman note sent and what did it promise?
Definition
to Mexico
promised lost territories in exchange for an alliance with Germany
Term
What senator wrote up a list of objectives to the Versailles Treaty?
Definition
Henry Cabot Lodge
Term
Name three Latin American countries we got involved with other than Mexico.
Definition
Haiti
Honduras
Panama
Term
From what country was Panama freed with US help and who was the president at the time?
Definition
Colombia
TR (check?)
Term
What president was involved in the Venezuelan debt controversy?
Definition
TR
Term
What amendment put restrictions on Cuba's constitution after the Spanish-American War?
Definition
Platt Amendment
Term
What president's administration saw the annexation of Hawaii?
Definition
McKinley
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