Jeopardy Vocab #1Vocab #2Vocab #3 Alaska & Hawaii Spanish American War Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500

$100 Question from Vocab #1 The policy by which strong nations extend their political, military, and economic control over weaker territories

$100 Answer from Vocab #1 What is imperialism?

$200 Question from Vocab #1 To incorporate a territory into an existing political unit, such as a state or a nation

$200 Answer from Vocab #1 What is annexation?

$300 Question from Vocab #1 Military historian and an officer in the US Navy; he called upon America to build a great fleet

$300 Answer from Vocab #1 Who is Alfred T. Mahan?

$400 Question from Vocab #1 Newspaper editors who heightened the public’s dislike of the Spanish government by using yellow journalism

$400 Answer from Vocab #1 Who are William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?

$500 Question from Vocab #1 The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers to attract readers

$500 Answer from Vocab #1 What is yellow journalism (yellow press)?

$100 Question from Vocab #2 Aggressive nationalism

$100 Answer from Vocab #2 What is jingoism?

$200 Question from Vocab #2 To arouse an intense emotional response

$200 Answer from Vocab #2 What is sensationalism?

$300 Question from Vocab #2 Splendid Little War

$300 Answer from Vocab #2 What is the Spanish American War?

$400 Question from Vocab #2 US Navy ship destroyed by unknown reasons but it led to US declaration of war on Spain

$400 Answer from Vocab #2 What is the USS Maine?

$500 Question from Vocab #2 Volunteer cavalry unit who fought in a famous land battle on San Juan Hill

$500 Answer from Vocab #2 Who are the Rough Riders?

$100 Question from Vocab #3 All black regiment of the Spanish American War

$100 Answer from Vocab #3 Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?

$200 Question from Vocab #3 Ended the Spanish American War; Spain freed Cuba, turned over the islands of Guam and Puerto Rico and sold the Philippines to the US for $20 million

$200 Answer from Vocab #3 What is the Treaty of Paris?

$300 Question from Vocab #3 Growth of US economy based on exports; US had a right to intervene abroad to keep foreign markets open & feared that the closing of an area to American products threatened US survival

$300 Answer from Vocab #3 What is the Open Door Policy?

$400 Question from Vocab #3 Members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from Western influence in 1900

$400 Answer from Vocab #3 What is the Boxer Rebellion?

$500 Question from Vocab #3 Commanded Cuba to stay out of debt and giving the US the right to intervene in the country and the right to buy or lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations

$500 Answer from Vocab #3 What is the Platt Amendment?

$100 Question from Alaska & Hawaii Nickname given to William Seward’s purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million

$100 Answer from Alaska & Hawaii What is Seward’s Folly?

$200 Question from Alaska & Hawaii lumber, coal, gold, oil, fish & copper

$200 Answer from Alaska & Hawaii What are the natural resources found in Alaska?

$300 Question from Alaska & Hawaii The Hawaiian League was instrumental In overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani. One of its leaders was…

$300 Answer from Alaska & Hawaii Who is Sanford Dole?

$400 Question from Alaska & Hawaii The year Hawaii became a US possession

$400 Answer from Alaska & Hawaii When was 1898?

$100 Question from Spanish American War Name one of the three reasons given for why the US went to war with Spain in 1898

$100 Answer from Spanish American War What are economic, expansionism and humanitarian?

$200 Question from Spanish American War Name one of the three causes for why the US went to war with Spain in 1898

$200 Answer from Spanish American War What are yellow journalism, USS Maine and De Lome letter?

$300 Question from Spanish American War The name given to the all black regiment led by Black Jack Pershing in the Spanish American War

$300 Answer from Spanish American War Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?

$400 Question from Spanish American War The group led by Teddy Roosevelt who beat the Spanish on San Juan Hill

$400 Answer from Spanish American War Who are the Rough Riders?

$500 Question from Spanish American War President during the Spanish American War

$500 Answer from Spanish American War Who is William McKinley?