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| To add territory, agreement |
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| Unsettled, sometimes unexplored land |
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| The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand and stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| 1899, the U.S. asked nations involved in Asia to follow a policy in which no one country controlled trade with China. |
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| U.S. wanted to expand West and settle the territory, wanted to achieve manifest destiny! |
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| A war in 1898, that began when the U.S. demanded Cuba's independence from Spain. U.S. victory. |
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| First U.S. volunteer cavalry (troops on horseback), organized by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War. |
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| A U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the Havana harbor (Cuba Feb. 15, 1898). "Spark" of the Spanish-American War. |
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| A style of journalism that exaggerates or sensationalizes the news. |
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| Country taht wanted it's independence from Spain. |
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| Country that became a U.S. territory after the Spanish-American War. |
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| Island that became a U.S. territory after the Spanish-American War. Still a U.S. territory today. |
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| Island in the Pacific Ocean that became a U.S. territory after the Spanish-American War. Still owned by the U.S. today. |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy plan regarding Latin America. Tells Europe not to interfere in Lation America. The U.S. would use force to back-up this policy. |
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| President Taft's policy of encouraging U.S. investment in Latin America. Increases American intervention in foreign affairs. |
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| Canal built by the U.S. as a shortcut through Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
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| Organized the Rough Riders, became President, Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Big Stick Policy. |
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| Belief that your ethnicity (culture) etc. is better than others. |
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