Imperialism Terms

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Across
  1. 3. In 1898, following the Spanish–American War, the United States acquired this island country. Citizens of this island have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and can move freely between the island and the mainland.
  2. 5. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. This was used to influence US Citizens' opinions of annexing many of the countries we did.
  3. 6. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish American War, the United States annexed this future state in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley and was made a territory in 1900.
  4. 7. This type of journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts
Down
  1. 1. These1899 notes provided that (1) each great power should maintain free access to a treaty port or to any other vested interest within its sphere, (2) only the Chinese government should collect taxes on trade, and (3) no great power having a sphere should be granted exemptions from paying harbor dues or railroad charges.
  2. 2. This war in 1898 ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
  3. 4. Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904.
  4. 5. This war was between this island country's revolutionaries and the United States from 1899 to 1902, It began after the United States assumed sovereignty of the this island country following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War.