Deck 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James G. Blaine

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Dewey

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Philippe Bunau-Varilla

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Josiah Strong

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Theodore Roosevelt

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
yellow press

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Randolph Hearst

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Hay

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Queen Liliuokalani

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Howard Taft

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Washington Goethals

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Philip Sousa

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Olney

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Valeriano Weyler

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dupuy de Lóme

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mark Twain

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elihu Root

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McKinley Tariff

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anti-Imperialist League

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pearl Harbor

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rough Riders

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"yellow peril"

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
imperialism

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
spheres of influence

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"big stick"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Little Brown Brothers"

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
reconcentration camps

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Maine

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"White Man's Burden"

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Foraker Act

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
insurrectos

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Great Rapprochement

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Teller Amendment

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Insular Cases

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Big Sister policy

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pan-American Conference

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Russo-Japanese War

Question 42

A major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century was the

A) need to justify substantially decreased expenditures including the reduction of the navy.
B) desire for more farmland.
C) construction of an American-built isthmian canal between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
D) closing of the frontier.
E) need for overseas markets for increased industrial and agricultural production.

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Question 45

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898​

____ Either one of the two nations whose boundary dispute in 1895 nearly involved the United States in war.

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
San Francisco school crisis

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Platt Amendment

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Great White Fleet

Question 49

Which of the following was not among the small but dangerous international crises the United States experienced in the 1890s?

A) A conflict with Germany over the Samoan islands
B) A near-war with Italy over the lynching of Italians in New Orleans
C) The Valparaiso crisis with Chile over the killing of two American sailors
D) A conflict with Japan over naval refueling rights at Midway Islands
E) A conflict with Canada over seal hunting near the Pribilof Islands

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Portsmouth Conference

Question 51

In his book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, the Reverend Josiah Strong advocated American expansion to

A) maintain the international balance of power.
B) open up new markets for industrial goods.
C) spread American religion and values to backward nations.
D) ease labor violence at home.
E) demonstrate and maintain white racial superiority.

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gentlemen's Agreement

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Boxer Rebellion

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Philippine insurrection

Question 56

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898​

____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Question 58

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898​

____ The independent republic annexed by the United States during the Spanish-American War, but not acquired as a result of the war

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Panama Canal

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Open Door notes

Question 61

Along with serving as the last reigning queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani is also remembered for

A) helping to build tourism to Hawaii.
B) writing songs such as "Aloha Oe."
C) establishing the pineapple business on the island.
D) her lavish personal expenditures, particularly for clothes.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 62

The Teller Amendment

A) guaranteed that the United States would support Cuban independence after Spain was ousted.
B) stated that Cuba would become an American possession.
C) directed President McKinley to order American troops into Cuba.
D) guaranteed that the United States would support a Cuban plebiscite by the Cuban people on independence or colonial status after Spain was ousted.
E) granted the United States a permanent base at Guantanamo Bay.

Question 63

To justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain, Secretary of State Olney invoked the

A) Platt Amendment.
B) Open Door policy.
C) Monroe Doctrine.
D) Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
E) Gentlemen's Agreement.

Question 64

Before a treaty annexing Hawaii to the United States could be rushed through the U.S. Senate in 1893

A) President Harrison's term expired and the less imperialistGrover Cleveland became president.
B) war broke out between the United States and Great Britain.
C) the white American sugar rebels decided that Hawaii should remain independent.
D) popular opinion in the United States turned against such colonial ventures.
E) the pro-annexation forces demanded that Hawaii be admitted to the Union as a state.

Question 65

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

A) free trade was essential to a nation's economic health.
B) control of the sea was the key to world domination.
C) the United States should continue its policy of isolationism.
D) the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
E) the construction of a large navy was not necessary for a nation to achieve world domination.

Question 66

The United States declared war on Spain even though the Spanish had already agreed to

A) end the reconcentration camps and sign an armistice with the Cuban rebels.
B) accept Cuban independence.
C) transfer Cuba to American possession.
D) apologize for the sinking of the Maine.
E) accept international arbitration of the conflict.

Question 67

Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced from power in 1893 because

A) she refused to allow Christian missionaries in her country.
B) many Hawaiians found her rule corrupt.
C) Hawaiian agriculture had failed under her leadership.
D) President Grover Cleveland believed that she had become too closely associated with the American sugar lords.
E) she opposed annexation to the United States and insisted that native Hawaiians should continue to control Hawaii.

Question 68

The actual purpose of the battleship Maine's visit to Cuba was to

A) provoke a war with Spain.
B) protect and evacuate American citizens from the island.
C) offer a way for Cuban rebels to escape to Florida.
D) stop rioting by the Cuban rebels.
E) prepare for intervention by the U.S. marines if necessary.

Question 69

During the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain, the United States

A) threatened war with Britain and asserted its domination of Latin America.
B) failed to invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
C) consistentlysought a peaceful negotiated settlement.
D) asserted its strong belief in Latin American independence.
E) was only "twisting the [British] lion's tail" for domestic political effect.

Question 70

President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because

A) the business community favored the conflict.
B) American honor and continued respect in the entire world truly demanded it.
C) it became clear that there was no other way to obtain Cuban independence.
D) the Teller Amendment guaranteed that the United States would not establish colonial control of Cuba.
E) the American public and many leading Republicans demanded it.

Question 71

One reason that the white American sugar lords tried to overthrow native Hawaiian rule and annex the islands to the United States was they

A) found the government of Queen Liliuokalani repressive and inefficient.
B) sought to control American foreign policy in the Pacific.
C) wanted to convert the native Hawaiians and East Asian immigrants to Christianity.
D) feared that Japan might intervene in Hawaii on behalf of abused Japanese imported laborers.
E) intended to force the growing native Hawaiian population to become indentured plantation laborers.

Question 72

A primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration was

A) that growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States.
B) that they expected the Monroe Doctrine to be ruled invalid.
C) that they did not want to become involved in a dangerous war in South America.
D) the fear that Britain would lose a shooting war with Venezuela.
E) that they accepted America's complete domination of Latin America.

Question 73

Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except

A) fear that the substantial American investment in Cuban sugar and other businesses would be lost.
B) a belief that Spain's control of Cuba presented a national security threat to the United States.
C) fear that Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route to the proposed Panama Canal.
D) sympathy for Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom.
E) the atrocity stories reported in the yellow press of William Randolph Hearst.

Question 74

The clash between Germany and America over the Samoan islands eventually resulted in

A) a small naval war between the two emerging powers.
B) a colonial division of the islands between Germany and the United States.
C) complete independence for all of Samoa.
D) the intervention of Japan to prevent a German-American war.
E) a binding international arbitration decision awarding the Samoan islands to the United States.

Question 75

The Cuban insurrectos who wanted to overthrow Spanish rule in Cuba

A) were heavily dependent on American funding for their rebellion.
B) blew up the battleship Maine.
C) were Communist in their ideological outlook.
D) began assassinating Spanish officials.
E) adopted a scorched-earth policy of burning cane fields and sugar mills.

Question 76

The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in

A) a brief war between Venezuela and British Guiana.
B) British concession of the disputed territory to Venezuela.
C) stationing United States marines along the disputed border.
D) a growing diplomatic reconciliation between the two English-speaking countries.
E) a naval arms race between the United States and Britain.

Question 77

The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated

A) the hostile reaction to American expansionism.
B) that American diplomacy was reckless and incompetent.
C) how weak America seemed to the rest of the world.
D) the failure of the Monroe Doctrine.
E) the aggressive new national mood.

Question 78

The battleship Maine was sunk by

A) the Spanish.
B) an accidental internal explosion on the ship.
C) Cuban rebels.
D) ​a mine planted by pro-Cuban Americans.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 79

President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii because

A) he thought the annexation of Hawaii would drain the U.S. Treasury because the island was weak economically.
B) the United States did not have the naval power to protect the islands against Japanese or German threats.
C) he believed that the native Hawaiians had been wronged and that a majority of Hawaiians opposed annexation to the United States.
D) passage of the McKinley Tariff made Hawaiian sugar unprofitable.
E) the United States would soon have to establish military bases in Hawaii.

Question 80

Which of the following prominent American leaders was least enthusiastic about U.S. imperialistic adventures in the 1890s?

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) William Randolph Hearst
C) Alfred Thayer Mahan
D) William McKinley
E) Grover Cleveland