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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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| decleration by President James Monroe in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of European nations |
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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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| a congressional resolution adopted in 1898 renouncing any American intention to annex Cuba. |
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| Regions dominated and controlled by an outside power |
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| American policy of seeking equal trade and investment opportunities in foreign nations or regions |
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| a diplomatic agreement in 1907 between Japan and the United States curtailing but not abolishing Japanese immigration |
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| a stipulation the United States 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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| the U.S. policy of using private investment in other nations to promote American diplomatic goals and business interests |
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| "was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator, widely considered the world's foremost theorist of military sea power. Several ships were named USS Mahan, including the lead vessel of a class of destroyers." |
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| Queen of Hawaii; moved to restore native control of Hawaiian affairs |
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| "The Rough Riders"" was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War" |
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| "the ""Buffalo Soldiers"" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army. The Spanish referred to them as ""Smoked Yankees" |
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| "African-American (""coloured"") cavalry regiment" |
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| "the first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership. After this attempt collapsed, the work was finally completed by the United States, and the canal opened in 1914." |
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