US Imperialism Review Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A waterway built by the United States in a nation who America helped gain its independence from Columbia that made it quicker for goods to travel by water from one coast of the United States to another.
  2. 6. An island about 90 miles away from the coast of Florida that was once ruled by Spain, the supposed mistreatment of people on this island by the Spanish was a major cause for the Spanish-American war.
  3. 7. An Asian nation consisting of many islands that the United States took control of after the Spanish American War, controlling it until the end of World War II.
  4. 9. Territory purchased from Russia in 1867 that has since become America’s northernmost state, rich in natural resources like oil and gold
  5. 10. A trade policy for China pushed by America that demanded China open itself up to trade from all nations, rather than giving certain countries special treatment in “spheres of influence”
  6. 11. When a strong country takes control of a less powerful country.
  7. 12. When a nation tries to increase its power by gaining control of more territory.
  8. 13. A tiny island in the Pacific Ocean annexed by the United States after the Spanish American war that has a very strategic location relative to Asian nations such as China and Japan, heavily used by the military.
  9. 14. To add, or incorporate, new additional territory to an existing country.
Down
  1. 1. Newspaper articles featuring exaggerated stories meant to draw an emotional response from their readers in order to sell more papers. Exaggerated claims about Spanish mistreatment of Cubans by yellow journalists contributed to the start of the Spanish-American war.
  2. 2. European nation who once controlled Guam, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba before being defeated by the United States in the Spanish American war in the late 1800s.
  3. 4. An island nation in the Caribbean Sea that is owned and controlled by the United States but has not been made a state itself, originally controlled by the Spanish before the Spanish American war. (people here still speak Spanish more than English)
  4. 5. A series of islands in the Pacific Ocean once ruled by a queen that Americans took over in the late 1800s. It is now a state with a very important strategic location.
  5. 8. A nation whose decisions are partially controlled by a stronger country, even though it is technically independent on paper.