Deck 6: The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

Question 1

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the transatlantic cable

Answer 1

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Question 2

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the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government

Answer 2

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Question 3

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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American exceptionalism

Answer 3

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Question 4

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Turner's frontier thesis

Question 5

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Lottie Moon

Question 6

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Hawaii's 1887 constitution

Question 7

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the purchase of Alaska

Question 8

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
Explain the historical significance of each item Establish the historical context in which the item exists Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item?
the San Francisco School Board's segregation order

Question 9

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the New Navy

Question 10

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Our Country

Question 11

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the McKinley Tariff of 1890

Question 12

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the foreign policy elite

Question 13

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expansionism versus imperialism

Question 14

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Captain Alfred T Mahan

Question 15

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the 1885 massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming

Question 16

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male ethos and imperialism

Question 17

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William H Seward

Question 18

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the controversy over the Samoan Islands

Question 19

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the Hawaiian annexation issue

Question 20

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the Burlingame Treaty

Question 21

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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McKinley's war message

Question 22

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the United Fruit Company

Question 23

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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General Valeriano Weyler

Question 24

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the Open Door policy

Question 25

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the Philippine Insurrection

Question 26

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the Jones Act

Question 27

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the 1895 Cuban revolution

Question 28

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the Treaty of Paris

Question 29

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the Boxer Rebellion

Question 30

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the Wilson-Gorman Tariff

Question 31

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the Teller Amendment

Question 32

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Commodore George Dewey

Question 33

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imperialist arguments

Question 34

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the Spanish-American War

Question 35

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José Martí

Question 36

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the Maine

Question 37

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the Moros

Question 38

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 39

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anti-imperialist arguments

Question 40

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the Venezuelan crisis of 1895

Question 41

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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American investments in Mexico

Question 42

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the Portsmouth Conference

Question 43

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Anglo-American rapprochement

Question 44

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the Panama Canal

Question 45

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the Platt Amendment

Question 46

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the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Question 47

Which of the following was a consequence of race-based explanations for expansion by United States leaders?

A) Such explanations led American leaders to study other societies and cultures so that they could create a world community of nations based on mutual respect and cooperation
B) Such explanations led United States policymakers to make unwise concessions to some nations because they were considered to be weak and inferior and in need of aid
C) Such explanations hampered the development of a modern navy because they led United States leaders to believe that God would always protect Americans
D) Such explanations justified domination and war, and thus downplayed the usefulness of diplomacy

Question 48

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dollar diplomacy

Question 49

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the Panamanian rebels

Question 50

The leaders who guided American foreign relations between 1865 and 1914

A) failed to recognize the relationship between expansion and economic growth
B) allowed foreign policy to be shaped almost exclusively by public opinion
C) believed that exertion of American influence abroad would help maintain prosperity at home
D) rejected the concept of power politics, advancing instead the idea that all nations are equals in the world community

Question 51

Those who advocated the acquisition of an American empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century espoused which of the following ideas?

A) When the United States intervenes and remakes the societies of weaker nations, it is extending the benefits of liberty and prosperity to less fortunate people
B) Because the American empire will be built by peaceful means, there is no need for expansion of the navy
C) American involvement in other lands will be confined to the sharing of American technology and will be initiated only at the request of foreign peoples
D) In acquiring colonies abroad, the United States must allow the peoples of those lands to shape their own economic and political destiny

Question 52

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Walter Reed

Question 53

Which of the following precipitated a crisis with Japan in 1906 and led to a gentleman's agreement with Tokyo restricting Japanese immigration to the United States?

A) The refusal of the United States to grant citizenship to Asians
B) The decision by the San Francisco School Board to segregate Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese in special schools
C) Taft's decision to implement dollar diplomacy in China
D) A California law denying Japanese residents the right to own land

Question 54

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Identify each item Give an explanation or description of the item Answer the questions who, what, where, and when
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the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901

Question 55

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the Taft-Katsura Agreement

Question 56

During the 1890s, leaders who favored economic expansion but not the annexation of overseas territory

A) became more vocal and began to dominate government decision making
B) lost ground to those who advocated imperialism
C) completely abandoned their position in the aftermath of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
D) came to be concentrated almost exclusively in the Republican party

Question 57

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Puerto Rican-United States relations

Question 58

The massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1885 is evidence of which of the following?

A) Miners and railway workers in the American West often reacted with violence against newly hired Hispanic workers
B) Labor strikes often led to disorder and violence in mining communities in the American West in the late nineteenth century
C) Discrimination against African Americans was just as prevalent in the American West as in the South during the late nineteenth century
D) Racist attitudes against Chinese immigrants were prevalent in the American West in the late nineteenth century

Question 59

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the Great White Fleet

Question 60

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the Root-Takahira Agreement

Question 61

Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War?

A) The United States would pay Spain $20 million for territories acquired
B) Cuba would belong to the United States
C) The Philippine Islands would be independent
D) Wake Island would become a United States protectorate

Question 62

Which important event occurred in 1866 largely because of the efforts of Cyrus Field?

A) The first permanent, underwater transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully laid, linking Europe and America
B) Russia sold Alaska to the United States
C) A United States naval squadron seized and laid claim to the Midway Islands
D) The first transcontinental railroad was completed, linking the east and west coasts of the United States

Question 63

The first news that Americans heard about action in the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War concerned the

A) defeat of American forces in Puerto Rico
B) destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor
C) New Navy's defeat of the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay, the Philippines
D) taking of San Juan Hill by Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Question 64

Which of the following played a role in precipitating the Cuban revolution of 1895?

A) The abolition of slavery in Cuba
B) The beginning of Cuban industrialization
C) An American military invasion
D) The imposition of a United States tariff on Cuban sugar

Question 65

As a consequence of the sinking of the Maine,

A) Congress authorized President McKinley's request for $50 million in defense funds
B) Spain agreed to allow the United States to arbitrate the dispute between Cuban insurgents and the Spanish government
C) Cuban terrorists bombed the Spanish embassy in Washington, DC
D) Enrique Dupuy de Lôme publicly belittled President McKinley

Question 66

The Venezuelan crisis

A) indicated that England was spoiling for war with the United States
B) showed the subtleties and caution of United States foreign policy
C) indicated that the United States wanted war with England
D) indicated that the rights of smaller nations are often not considered when two major powers confront each other

Question 67

The Teller Amendment

A) detailed humanitarian reasons for the declaration of war against Spain
B) approved the annexation of Hawai'i
C) approved Commodore Dewey's attack on the Spanish fleet in the Pacific
D) disclaimed any American intention of annexing Cuba

Question 68

The annexation of the Hawaiian Islands was preceded by

A) a request for such action by Queen Liliuokalani
B) the discovery by the State Department that Japan was planning to annex the islands
C) a revolution in which all foreign business interests were forced out of the islands
D) the seizure of Hawaii's government, which was plotted by leading whites, including American sugar growers, and carried out with the assistance of American troops

Question 69

Most American deaths in the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War were caused by

A) combat wounds
B) tainted food
C) disease
D) heat stroke

Question 70

Secretary of State William H Seward successfully acquired which of the following for the United States?

A) Alaska
B) Guam
C) Puerto Rico
D) the Virgin Islands

Question 71

Which of the following is true of both the Venezuelan crisis and the Cuban crisis?

A) In both instances, the United States insisted that it would set the rules of conduct in the Western Hemisphere
B) Both situations indicated a willingness on the part of European powers to back down in the face of American might
C) Both situations contributed to a general deterioration of American relations with the European powers
D) In both instances, the United States waged war without a congressional decision to do so

Question 72

Which of the following best expresses the beliefs of William H Seward?

A) War is the only means by which the United States can acquire an empire
B) America will acquire an empire as the result of a natural process of gravitation toward the United States
C) The United States must resist the temptation of annexing territories populated by nonwhites
D) As missionaries spread the Christian message, the other peoples of the Western Hemisphere will be drawn into the American orbit

Question 73

Which of the following arguments was used by some opponents of the Treaty of Paris?

A) The war is unjust, so the treaty is also unjust
B) The United States should not be engaged in economic expansion
C) The annexation of areas populated by dark-skinned people will undermine Anglo-Saxon purity
D) The radical and revolutionary ideas of the Puerto Rican people will undermine American capitalism

Question 74

Captain Alfred T Mahan argued that the nation's economic well-being depended on

A) a commitment to educational excellence
B) the building of an efficient navy to protect American shipping
C) doubling the size of the United States Army
D) the spread of democratic principles throughout the world

Question 75

Annexationists in Hawai'i plotted the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government for which of the following reasons?

A) To avoid paying the new American tariff on Hawaiian sugar imported into the United States
B) To provoke a war between the United States and Japan
C) To place Queen Liliuokalani in power
D) To keep more Chinese and Japanese from migrating to Hawai'i

Question 76

The anti-imperialist campaign against the Treaty of Paris

A) was based on purely constitutional arguments
B) was unsuccessful because most Americans rejected the racist arguments used by the anti-imperialists
C) was successful because of the support of people like Andrew Carnegie
D) was hindered by the inability of the anti-imperialists to wage an effective campaign or to speak with one voice on foreign policy matters

Question 77

Hawai'i was annexed by the United States under President

A) Grover Cleveland
B) Benjamin Harrison
C) William McKinley
D) Theodore Roosevelt

Question 78

The United States declaration of war on Spain in 1898

A) was the result of Spain's refusal to respond to United States diplomatic proposals
B) came after Spain made some diplomatic concessions to the United States
C) came after Spain stepped up its reconcentration policy
D) was the result of Spain's rejection of a United States offer to buy Cuba

Question 79

Which of the following statements is most consistent with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis?

A) The prevalence of violence in American society may be explained by the fact that Americans have continually had to tame and civilize a vast wilderness
B) The American character has been shaped by the ever-expanding continental frontier
C) Now that North America has been civilized, the American people will look inward with the goal of creating a truly egalitarian democracy
D) With the passing of the frontier, Americans must fulfill their destiny by acquiring an overseas empire

Question 80

African American soldiers, at the time of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War,

A) faced racism within the military just as they did within society
B) served only in the Corps of Engineers
C) were not allowed to engage in combat
D) were not allowed to become commissioned officers