Across
- 1. ended the Spanish-American war and started the debate of whether the US had the right to annex the Phillipines
- 3. rebel leader that believed the US promised independence
- 6. a voulunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt
- 9. a cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York, launched a revolution in 1895
- 11. strategically important hill that was attacked by the rough riders and two African Americans
- 14. US ship that its explosion was one of the main causes of the Spanish-American war
- 15. the policy which stronger nations extended their economic, political, and/or military control over their weaker territories
Down
- 2. exaggerated and sometimes untrue journalism
- 4. passed in 1900, this act ended military rule and set up a civil government
- 5. a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power
- 7. letters adressed to the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations share their rights with the US
- 8. a general sent to Cuba to restore order.
- 10. This amendment stated that: Cuba could not make treaties, Cuba could not go into debt it's government couldn't repay, US could buy or lease land for naval and refueling stations, and the US remained the right to intervene in Cuba.
- 12. US secretary of state and author of the open door notes
- 13. a commodore that gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at the Manila