#15 (B) US Expansion Beyond the Continent

the fuel used to power ships during the late 1800s, created the need to acquire land/islands as refueling stations

• imperialism

• coal

• Hawaii

• steam

country south of Florida that the US acquired as a result of the Sp. Am. war, and the US allowed it to become independent

• Puerto Rico

• Hawaii

• Maine

• Cuba

An island in the Pacific that was a Spanish colony. The US gained this territory in addition to the Philippines & Puerto Rico, after winning the Spanish American War

• Cuba

• Spanish-American War

• Guam

• Philippines

Island in the Pacific that the US seized because it was on the trade route to Asia, later became the 50th state

• Hawaii

• Maine

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

a stronger country controlling a weaker nation for benefit of stronger country

• yellow journalism

• imperialism

• Teddy Roosevelt

• world power

Freedom from being ruled by someone else

• Cuba

• independence

• McKinley

• coal

The US battleship that blew up in Havana harbor that triggered the start of the Sp Am War

• Steam

• Mckinley

• World Power

• Maine

President during the Sp Am War

• McKinley

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Guam

• Coal

Spanish colony in the Western Pacific whom the US helped free from the Spanish, but soon after took as their own colony

• Cuba

• steam

• Philippines

• world power

A U.S. territory; the U.S. gained it from Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War. People here have U.S. citizenship, and many here would like it to be a U.S. state. Near Cuba.

• hawaii

• Guam

• Maine

• Puerto Rico