APUSH Imperialism Questions and Answers with complete solution

Imperialism - A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. Monroe Doctrine - 1823 US foreign policy by President James Monroe forbidding European colonization of the Western Hemisphere in exchange for the US avoiding unnecessary involvement European affairs. Roosevelt Corollary - 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in the Western Hemisphere by using military force (police power). Jingoism - A feeling of strong national pride and a desire for an aggressive foreign policy. Queen Liliuokalani - Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests. Seward's Folly - Americans joked that Alaska was "walrus covered iceberg", barren and worthless because you could not farm on it. Sec of State William Seward purchases it for 7.2 million dollars. Later discovered that Alaska has oil and gold. Alfred Thayer Mahan - Navy officer whose ideas on naval warfare and the importance of seapower changed how America viewed its navy. John Hay - Was the Secretary of State in 1899; dispatched the Open Door Notes to keep the countries that had spheres of influence in China from taking over China and closing the doors on trade between China and the U.S. Spanish American War - War fought between the US and Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. It lasted less than 3 months and resulted in Cuba's independence as well as the US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.William McKinley - , 25th President, Republican, supported gold standard, protective tariff, and Hawaiian Islands, President during Spanish American War, assassinated.