Our Puzzling History #2

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Across
  1. 3. writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers
  2. 4. a writer and poet who was passionately committed to the cause of Cuban independence
  3. 7. an area where a foreign nation controlled economic development
  4. 8. the United States and Latin America should work together
  5. 11. an attitude of aggressive nationalism
  6. 13. History,
  7. 14. where american warships entered japan to show their naval power
  8. 15. ascended hawaiian throne in 1891
  9. 18. the american minister to hawaii
  10. 20. outlined the role of the U.S. in cuba and the Caribbean
  11. 23. pushed for construction of new navy
  12. 24. pushed for construction of new navy
  13. 25. owner of the new york journal
  14. 26. owner of the new york world
Down
  1. 1. a voyage around the world to showcase the nation’s military might.
  2. 2. secretary of state in the 1880’s
  3. 5. In 1890, he published his lectures in a book called The Influence of Sea Power
  4. 6. Cleveland strongly opposed imperialism
  5. 9. after reaching the Pacific Ocean it was the nation’s destiny to expand overseas and spread its civilization to other people
  6. 10. became known as el carnicero
  7. 12. group members besieged foreign embassies in Beijing
  8. 16. fiske argued that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government, and were destined to dominate the planet
  9. 17. taft’s policy
  10. 19. took a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty
  11. 21. assistant secretary of the navy
  12. 22. revolutionary general and first president of the Philippines