Vocabulary
Monroe Doctrine: The Monroe Doctrine is a warning to European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
Spanish American War: conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
Roosevelt Corollary: An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904
Panama Canal: The Panama Canal is an artificial 48-mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
General Santa Anna & Mexico: an American-born Spaniard who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then for Mexican independence
Benito Juarez: Benito Pablo Juárez García was a Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served as the president of Mexico for five terms.
Pancho Villa:
Emiliano Zapata: