APUSH Gilded Age Key Terms

Pan-Americanism
(1889) Pan-Americanism is a movement which seeks to create cooperation between the states of the Americas in common interests. (Washington DC Conference (1889) and James Blaine)

Fredrick Jackson Turner
(1861-1932) An American historian best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History. “The spirit and success of the United States is directly tied to the country's westward expansion.”

jingoism
(1890s) "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". In other words, threatening other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests.

“Remember the Maine”
(etym. 1898) The sinking of the Maine on February 15, 1898 precipitated the Spanish-American War and also popularized the phrase “Remember the Maine, To Hell with Spain!”

Teller Amendment
(1898) It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people” and was signed into law on April 20, 1898.

George Dewey
(1837-1917) George Dewey was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. He was also the only Admiral of the Navy in US history.

Emilio Aguinaldo
(1869-1964) A Filipino general, politician, and independence leader who fought in the Phillipine Revolution against Spain and was critical in the Phillipine-American War. He later became the first president of the Phillipines.

Anti-Imperialist League
(est. 1898) Established in the on June 15, 1898 to battle the American annexation of the Philippines. The Anti-Imperialist League opposed annexation on economic, legal, and moral grounds.

Panama Canal
Began in 1880 by the French, under Ferdinand de Lesseps, it was ready for use by 1914. The Canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans facilitating international maritime trade.

Hey-Pauncefote Agreement
(1901) An agreement between the US and United Kingdom that nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control the Panama Canal.

Roosevelt Corollary
(1904) An amendment to the Monroe Doctrine by Roosevelt that asserted the right of the US to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of small states in Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their debts.

Dollar Diplomacy
The term used to describe the effort of the United States to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.

“Gentlemen’s Agreement”
(1907) An informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration or students, and Japan would not allow further immigration to the U.S.

Root-Takahira Agreement
(1908) The agreement consisted of an official recognition of the territorial status quo as of November 1908 in exchange for American acknowledgment of Japan’s right to annex Korea and dominance over southern Manchuria.

Mexican intervention
(1914) The United States, in its pursuit of a democratic world, intervened in Mexico during its revolution by aiding Venustiano Carranza in toppling the Huerta administration and by occupying port of Veracruz in 1914.

Pancho Villa
(1878-1923) The first Mexican Revolutionary General Villa fought against Pascual Orozco alongside General Victoriano Huerta. He killed 16 Americans in 1916, invoking the occupation of Mexico led by General J.J. Pershing.