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| The U.S. policy of using private investment in other nations to promote American diplomatic goals and business interests. |
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| A diplomatic agreement in 1907 between Japan and the U.S. curtailing but not abolishing Japanese immigration. |
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| The policy and practice of exploiting nations and peoples for the benefit of an imperial power either directly through military occupation and colonial rule or indirectly through economic domination of resources and markets. |
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| The ideas advanced by Alfred Thayer Mahan, stressing U.S. naval, economic, and territorial expansion. |
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| American policy of seeking equal trade and investment opportunities in foreign nations or regions. |
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| International organization originally established as the Commercial Bureau of American Republics by Secretary of State James Blaine's first Pan-American Conference in 1889 to promote cooperation among nations of the Western Hemisphere through commercial and diplomatic negotiations. |
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| A stipulation the U.S. had inserted into the Cuban constitution in 1901 restricting Cuban autonomy and authorizing U.S. intervention and naval bases. |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt's policy asserting U.S. authority to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations; an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine. |
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| A region dominated and controlled by and outside power. |
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| A congressional resolution adopted in 1898 renouncing any American intention to annex Cuba. |
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| A deliberately sensational journalism of scandal and exposure designed to attract an urban mass audience and increase advertising revenues. |
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