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| An amendment that ensured U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs, both foreign and domestic, and gave legal standing to U.S. claims to certain economic and military territories on the island including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. |
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| Philippines, Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba, Puerto Rico. |
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| Territories annexed by the US from 1867 to 1902 (1898 had the most annexations). |
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| A term used to describe the convergence of social and political objectives between the United States and the British Empire in the two decades before World War I. |
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| A ship known for her catastrophic loss in Havana harbor. She had been sent to Havana, Cuba to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain. On the evening of 15 February 1898, she suddenly exploded, and swiftly sank, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. Her destruction sparked the Spanish-American War of 1898. |
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| An admiral of the United States Navy best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. He was also the only person in the history of the United States to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy, the most senior rank in the United States Navy. |
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| A Filipino general, politician, and independence leader who played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War that resisted American occupation. |
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| A term which describes extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. |
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| A presidential race between Republican President William McKinley and his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan (51.6% McKinley, 45.5% Bryan). The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish-American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. President McKinley chose New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as VP - who was essentially supported by criminals in New York who wanted him out of his anti-crime mayoral position in New York. |
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| An Act which gave limited elected government to the Puerto Ricans. |
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| The Anti-Imperialist League |
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| A league which emerged in opposition to the annexation of the Philippines by the US. Mark Twain, William James, Andrew Carnegie and Samuel Gompers. |
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| A series of Supreme Court cases which concluded that the Constitution doesn't extend to US territories. |
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| Artist sent by William Randolph Hearst to draw pictures of the sinking of the Maine to fuel American outrage at the event. |
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| An amendment which stated that the US would give freedom to Cuba after the war with Spain. |
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| James G. Blaine's belief that the US should get Latin American countries behind the leadership of the US; he led the Pan-American conference to that end. |
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| A treaty which stated that the US couldn't solely control a canal route along the Central American isthmus. |
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