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| a nation should accumulate wealth by exporting more goods than it imports |
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| acquiring colonies overseas for trade, investments, or national security |
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| his book "The Influence of Sea Power on History" helped convince America to build a more powerful navy in order to expand |
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| he believed in "Anglo-Saxon Superiority" and that America was destined to expand outside its borders |
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| his book "The Significance of the Frontier in American Hisoty" advocated overseas expansion to keep the "safety valve" open and avoid internal conflict |
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| English speaking Whites are biologically superior to other races |
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| poem by Rudyard Kipling expressing the idea that white men were obligated to develop the Philippines and other underdeveloped nations |
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| the purchse of Alaska from Russia: Americans thought the purchase was useless |
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| plantation owners aised by US troops took over an island and deposed its queen |
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| Hawaiian monarch who eventually lost a struggle for power with white plantation owners |
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| the United States swiftly and soundly defeated Spain and took over the Philippines |
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| his newspaper used yellow journalism to sell papers by mamipulating emotions |
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| he used yellow journalism to sell more newspapers |
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| one of the new modernized, steel-plated steam powered battleships of the late 1800's |
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| exaggerated, untrue stories meant to sell more papers instead of accurately report news |
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| an attachment to the Treaty of Paris, which promised that America would not annex Cuba |
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| American Naval officer who led the defeat and takeover of the Philippines from Spain |
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| Spanish controlled colony taken over by the United States as a result of the "Splendid Little War" |
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| Commander of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, famous for the battles of Kettle and San Juan Hills in Cuba |
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| a cavalry unit consisting of rugged westerners and upper-classed easterners led by Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War |
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| this agreement officially ended the Spanish American Was |
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