IMPERIALISM CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 2. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side.
  2. 5. The popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts.
  3. 7. A modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which are claimed to have applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
  4. 9. A person forced to work for another with no payment or freedom to seek work elsewhere.
  5. 10. In the political sense, this usually means freedom.
  6. 12. Political ruler of a country of nation
  7. 13. Ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.
  8. 15. The effort of the United States—particularly over President William Howard Taft—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
  9. 18. A canal that crosses the isthmus of Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Built by the United States between 1904 and 1914.
  10. 20. Append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
  11. 21. General Weyler of Spain sent thousands of Cubans into concentration camps.
  12. 23. The result of various political activities within both the United States and Puerto Rican governments.
  13. 27. Free Cuba.
  14. 29. International negotiations backed by the threat of force. The phrase comes from a proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, who said that the United States should “ Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
  15. 30. The supreme law of the land in the United States.
  16. 31. The transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia.
  17. 34. Who we fought in Spanish American war.
  18. 35. An economy based on free trade and supply and demand.
  19. 37. A series of opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1901 about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War. The Supreme Court held that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all places under American control.
  20. 38. A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  21. 39. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  22. 40. Members of a volunteer regiment of cavalry organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood for service in the Spanish-American War.
Down
  1. 1. An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
  2. 3. Destiny A term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
  3. 4. Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 7, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when its territory was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.
  4. 6. An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
  5. 8. A term was coined in the mid-1890s to characterize the sensational journalism that used some yellow ink in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
  6. 9. A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
  7. 11. A United States federal statute that provides for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine.
  8. 14. Dutch descended colonist living in South Africa. Also called Afrikaners.
  9. 16. A slogan of the The United States battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba in 1898.
  10. 17. Various materials found in nature used in manufacturing such as wood, coal, and oil.
  11. 19. Widespread hunger caused by the near complete lack of food.
  12. 22. Belief in the benefits of profitable trading
  13. 24. An agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
  14. 25. A term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.
  15. 26. The conditions for U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases (the main one was Guantánamo Bay) and coaling stations in Cuba.
  16. 28. A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
  17. 32. A history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
  18. 33. A state that is controlled and protected by another.
  19. 36. The entry of forces into a territory through hostile means.