APUSH AMSCO Chapter 20 Key Terms Study Guide with Complete Solutuions

©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM Page | 2 James Blaine - Answer️️ -Harrison's secretary of state, hoped to bring about reductions in tariff rates in the Pan-American conference, not achieved Venezuela boundary dispute - Answer️️ -between Venezuela and the British colony of Guiana. US argued that the Monroe Doctrine applied to the situation so the US could be involved, and if British did not arbitrate, the US would back up its argument with military force, the British agree with demands. (arbitrators ruled mainly in favor of Britain anyway) Cleveland and Olney - Answer️️ -settled Venezuela boundary dispute Hawaii - Answer️️ -expansionists coveted these islands; C Cleveland opposed efforts to annex, but outbreak of war i the Philippines gave Congress and President McKinley the pretext to complete annexation in 1898 Queen Liliuokalani - Answer️️ -Hawaiian monarch who was overthrown by American settlers in 1893 international Darwinism - Answer️️ -Darwin's concept of survival of the fittest applied to competition among nations and races for military advantage, colonies, and spheres of influence; expansionists wanted to acquire territories overseas to demonstrate strength, expansion seen as an extension of the idea of manifest destiny into the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean business and imperialist competitors - Answer️️ -imperialism involved acquiring territory or gaining control over the political and economic life of other countries. Some in the US believed that the nation needed to compete with the imperialistic nations for new territory or it would be reduced to a second-class power ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM Page | 3 spreading religion and science - Answer️️ -many missionaries who traveled believed that they had a religious duty to colonize other lands in order to spread Christianity and the benefits of their "superior" civilization (medicine, science, and technology) to less fortunate peoples of the world Josiah Strong - Answer️️ -author of Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis (1885), where he wrote that people of Anglo-Saxon stock were "the fittest to survive" expansionist politicians - Answer️️ -many in the Republican party were closely allied with business leaders, therefore they generally endorsed the use of foreign affairs to search for new markets (ex: Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt) steel and steam navy - Answer️️ -using arguments in Mahan's book, US naval strategists persuaded Congress to finance the construction Alfred Thayer Mahan - Answer️️ -US Navy Captain who wrote T