VIEWING GUIDE: CRUICIBLE OF EMPIRE

As you watch the film, write out definitions for each item listed below and one reason it’s
historically important.

1. Frederick Jackson 8. Jingoes 14. TR

Turner

15. Depuy Delome

9. New York Journal

2. General Maximo
Gomez

16. The Maine

3. baseball and 10. William Randolph

bullfighting Hearst

17. Admiral Thomas

Dewey
4. “Cuba Libre”

11. Captain Alfred

Thayer Mahan and
his arguments

5. Jose Marti
18. Senator Teller

6. Valeriano Weyler 12. Emiliano Aguinaldo

19. Battle of Manila

7. Reconcentration
Camps
13. Richard Harding
Davis 20. Rough Riders
21. Yellow Fever 29. Anti-Imperialist 35. Batangas
League and
members

36. “fortified zones”

22. “immunes”

30. Guerilla War

37. General Jacob

Smith
23. San Juan Heights

31. “Dead Indians”

24. Kettle Hill

38. Admiral Rickover

32. Platt Amendment

25. Gatlings

26. Calixto Garcia 33. Benevolent

Assimilation

27. Paternalism

34. Island of Samar

28. Ambrose Bierce