Objective 6.02

Identify areas of the United States military, economic, and political

involvement and influence.

Queen Liliuokalani

Last Monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Seward’s Folly

The purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

William Randolph Hearst

Owner of the “New York Journal”, told artist Frederick Remington ‘You supply the pictures and I’ll supply the war” in connection with the Cuban rebellion against Spain

Joseph PulitzerOwner of “The New York World”, competing newspaper against Hearst’s New York Journal, sensationalized stories to gain readership/ yellow journalism

USS Maine

US battleship sunk in Havana Harbor setting the stage for the Spanish-American War

Theodore Roosevelt

Leader of The Rough Riders, 26th President of the United States

Rough Riders

Volunteer Calvary organized by Theodore Roosevelt, gained fame in Spanish-American War in charge up San Juan Hill

“Splendid Little War”

John Hay’s description of the Spanish-American War

Philippines

Site of Commodore George Dewey’s defeat of the Spanish Navy

Treaty of Paris, 1898

Treaty between Spain and the US that ended the Spanish and American War.

Platt Amendment

Amendment added to the Constitution of Cuba that said that Cuba could operate as an independent country as long as the US had final approval of any Cuban Foreign Policy decisions

Panama Canal

Connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to keep American ships from traveling around the coast of South America

Pancho Villa Raids

Joined the Mexican Revolution in 1910, led raids into New Mexico, was chased into Mexico by American Calvary