Our Puzzling History #2

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  1. 2. It gave the United States the exclusive right to build and control any proposed canal through Central America.
  2. 3. - The economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations.
  3. 4. In 1891, she ascended the Hawaiian throne.
  4. 13. Cuba could not make any treaty with another nation that would weaken its independence or allow another foreign power to gain territory in Cuba.
  5. 14. Taft’s policy.
  6. 15. This is a kind of sensationalist reporting, in which writers often exaggerated or even made up stories to attract readers
  7. 17. An area where a foreign nation controlled economic development such as railroad construction, mining, and other key industries.
  8. 19. He was ordered to take a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty.
  9. 20. The imperial power allowed the local rulers to stay in control and protected them against rebellions and invasion. In exchange for this protection.
  10. 21. In 1907 President Roosevelt sent 16 battleships of the new United States Navy.
  11. 22. Many Americans saw it as part of the idea of Manifest Destiny.
  12. 23. All countries should be allowed to trade with China.
  13. 24. Group members besieged foreign embassies in Beijing.
  14. 25. In 1890, he published his lectures in a book called The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 – 1783.
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  1. 1. In an address to Congress in 1904, the president defined what came to be known as the ____________ to the Monroe Doctrine.
  2. 5. A writer and poet who was passionately committed to the cause of Cuban independence.
  3. 6. He owns the “New York World”.
  4. 7. He owns the “New York Journal”.
  5. 8. The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
  6. 9. To come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events.
  7. 10. Almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition.
  8. 11. an attitude of aggressive nationalism.
  9. 12. He raged that McKinley had “no more backbone than a chocolate éclair”.
  10. 16. The idea that the United States and Latin America should work together.
  11. 18. He pushed for the construction of a new navy.