Deck 20: Becoming a World Power

Question 1

Once the U.S.entered World War I,how did the government address its wartime participation on the homefront?

A) It rallied the public by planting articles about German atrocities in newspapers nationwide.
B) It sought to unify new immigrants via the 100 Percent American campaign.
C) It passed the Espionage Act with fines and jail time for those who protested the draft or spoke against the government.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Treaty of Versailles included all of the following,except

A) German reparations.
B) Germany's admission of guilt.
C) self-determination for nationalities.
D) an end to British and French colonial rule in Africa and Asia.
E) the League of Nations.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of these events finally pushed the United States to enter World War I?

A) The Zimmerman note
B) Anti-German sentiment in America
C) Germany's push toward Russia
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In order for Theodore Roosevelt to be able to volunteer for military service in Cuba he had to

A) get an examination from the draft board.
B) get McKinley's permission to leave his post as vice-president.
C) accept the lowly rank of a private.
D) resign his naval post.
E) bribe recruitment officers to ignore his poor eyesight and other ailments.

Question 5

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that the United States would never sustain itself as a world power without

A) a modern standing army.
B) a dedicated fund for defense.
C) competing on an equal basis with other world empires in trying to accumulate properties.
D) maintaining its position in the world as a republic that refused to colonize others.
E) a large modern navy and overseas supply bases.

Question 6

What was known as "Seward's Folly"?

A) His agreement with Latin America to help them build a road from Mexico to Colombia
B) His purchase of Alaska
C) His sale of Victoria Island to the British
D) America's purchase of rights to the Great Lakes
E) His tentative treaty with the Russians over fishing rights in the Bering Sea

Question 7

Wilson's Fourteen Points were

A) his wartime statement on the principles that should shape a postwar peace settlement.
B) a blueprint for "a world made fit and safe to live in."
C) a plan that included resolutions for border disputes between the warring nations.
D) his call for free trade, disarmament and an association of nations to resolve disputes peacefully.
E) All of these choices.

Question 8

Since the mid-1800s,one of the goals of American businessmen was to

A) gain more territory from Mexico.
B) become more involved in the islands of the Caribbean.
C) sell American goods to the peoples of Asia.
D) refrain from getting too involved with other nations.
E) catch up with Britain's Industrial Revolution.

Question 9

The Open Door policy

A) was the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century.
B) caused the Boxer Rebellion and led to the resignation of John Hay as secretary of state.
C) would allow all nations to trade with China on equal terms.
D) was designed to open Cuba, Latin America and the Philippines to U.S. trade and investment.
E) was proposed by the U.S. but rejected by the Chinese government.

Question 10

The Teller Amendment

A) barred the U.S. from annexing Cuba.
B) declared war on the Philippines.
C) turned Hawaii into a territory.
D) turned Samoa and Guam into American possessions.
E) turned the open Door Policy into an American foreign policy principle.

Question 11

It is accurate to say that,in many ways,big business interests in America

A) were always expansionist.
B) favored tariffs but not expansion.
C) guided Congress in what laws should be passed.
D) believed in the "survival of the fittest."
E) drove American foreign policy from early in the nation's history.

Question 12

When Britain and Venezuela found themselves in a border dispute in 1895,the American Secretary of State sought to stop the conflict by

A) purchasing Venezuela.
B) citing the Monroe Doctrine and persuading Britain to settle the border dispute with Venezuela peacefully.
C) convincing the two sides to sit down and work out the problem, with American assistance.
D) persuading the British government to let all of its American colonies go.
E) calling Theodore Roosevelt, the Assistant Secretary of War, to step in and arbitrate between the two.

Question 13

Businessmen who were heavily invested in Cuba were concerned when Cuba began a war for independence from Spain,because they feared that

A) their lands would be damaged by the fighting.
B) their workers would be injured or killed by the fighting.
C) they would lose access to their cotton and rice plantations.
D) the political instability of revolution and independence would lead the Cuban government to seize all of the American holdings.
E) sugar prices would plummet.

Question 14

Which of these was not a reason for the onset of the Spanish-American War?

A) The explosion of the Maine
B) Spain's supposed harsh treatment of the Cubans
C) An intercepted letter in which the Mexican ambassador described President McKinley in a very unflattering way
D) The Rough Riders wanted to make a name for themselves
E) Newspapers published graphic details of Spanish atrocities

Question 15

Concerned about the aggression of other colonial powers,the Kingdom of Hawaii

A) began to build its own navy.
B) formed an alliance with Japan.
C) requested American annexation.
D) granted the United States the right to construct a naval base at Pearl Harbor.
E) invited American missionaries for spiritual assistance.

Question 16

The strained relations between Queen Lili'uokalani and American businessmen came to a head in 1893,when

A) the queen ordered all Americans to leave the islands.
B) the Hawaiians barricaded the new naval base at Pearl Harbor.
C) American businessmen staged a coup to transfer power to the legislature they had established.
D) American rebels seized the queen, declared a provisional government, and petitioned for annexation by the United States.
E) the United States placed high tariffs on sugar cane coming in from Hawaii.

Question 17

In his famous 1893 essay,historian Frederick Jackson Turner bemoaned the loss of a frontier in America,because he believed that

A) the frontier lifestyle was the most fulfilling.
B) America would soon have clusters of large, crowded cities all across the land.
C) the frontier had played a vital role in shaping America's national character, and the country would need a new frontier to ensure its democracy lived on.
D) there would be no "escape valve" for those who could not get along with people, because there would be no more open land.
E) too many Americans would consider the Pacific Ocean the end of the frontier and would not ever consider islands as a way to expand.

Question 18

Political leaders,including Theodore Roosevelt,justified annexation of the Philippines and Puerto Rico on the grounds that

A) the U.S. had won the war with Spain and these were Spanish territories that were up for grabs.
B) they were sugar-producing countries and would prove vital to U.S. business interests.
C) both island countries were too weak to govern themselves.
D) such acquisitions were in keeping with McKinley's imperialist agenda.
E) All of these choices.

Question 19

Individuals such as Josiah Strong believed that America had a moral duty to

A) care for the poor and the weak.
B) set up poor houses across the country.
C) militarily help protect small countries from exploitation.
D) take Christianity to those who had never heard of it.
E) redistribute America's great wealth among all the people.

Question 20

All of the following were part of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War except

A) Spain gave Cuba its independence.
B) The United States got Guam and Puerto Rico.
C) The U.S. gained Hawaii.
D) The U.S. gained the Philippines.
E) Spain got $20 million from the U.S.

Question 21

The election of 1900 showed that

A) a strident anti-imperialist political ideology would not be sufficiently appealing to American voters.
B) Theodore Roosevelt was a great addition to McKinley's ticket.
C) Bryan was finished as a presidential candidate.
D) a good economy takes all interest away from the usual campaign issues.
E) most people were by then in favor of imperialism.

Question 22

The Boxer Rebellion in China aimed to use outsiders to help the people throw out the invaders from Japan in 1900.

Question 23

America's initial reaction to the outbreak of war in Europe was

A) surprise and shock, because they had assumed the Alliance system was working.
B) interest in assisting Germany, because there was a large population of German-Americans in the United States.
C) a desire to help the British to the complete exclusion of Germany.
D) bewilderment about what would happen to their economy at home in the United States.
E) a declaration of neutrality and a promise to sell munitions to nations on both sides of the conflict.

Question 24

The "spark" that set World War I into motion was

A) Germany's alliance with Austria-Hungary.
B) the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, by a Serb nationalist.
C) the attempt by Austria-Hungary to annex the small, newly-independent country of Serbia.
D) Russian protection of Serbs who were trying to force the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
E) Germany's invasion of France in 1914.

Question 25

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States

A) would welcome European humanitarian assistance in Latin America.
B) would assist in any way possible to help the countries of Latin America to establish democracies.
C) would intervene in the domestic affairs of any Latin American nation whose instability threatened the security of the Western Hemisphere.
D) was prepared to defend any country in the Americas from threats from its neighbors.
E) stood ready to intervene in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, if the governments of those countries did not regain control right away.

Question 26

Discuss America's role during World War I.What prompted the United States to join the fight after it first had declared neutrality?

Question 27

The "water cure" was one of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in the Philippines.

Question 28

President Taft's use of American soldiers to protect the interests of the American business community in Latin America was called

A) the Taft Treatment.
B) the Good Neighbor Policy.
C) self-serving and un-American.
D) hemispheric hegemony.
E) dollar diplomacy.

Question 29

Describe the most significant events of the Spanish-American War.Explain the role of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in Cuba.

Question 30

The first country in which the United States wanted to build a canal across Central America was Colombia.

Question 31

The new Panama Canal that began operation in 1914

A) cut about 5,000 miles off the sailing distance between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
B) was leased by the United States in twenty-year periods.
C) opened just before World War I broke out.
D) caused tension and resentment among the Colombians who had lost out on the deal.
E) brought new wealth to the people of Panama.

Question 32

American humanitarian efforts in the Philippines,Puerto Rico,Guam,and Cuba included all of the following,except

A) Missionaries built churches and orphanages.
B) Educators built schools.
C) Americans helped local people to establish independent, domestic businesses.
D) Doctors built hospitals.
E) Dr. Walter Reed discovered how yellow fever was spread.

Question 33

The move by America to build a canal through Central America

A) met stiff resistance from Panama at first.
B) included an American-backed revolution by the Panamanians against Colombia.
C) lasted for almost 40 years before anything was actually accomplished.
D) turned Panama into an independent republic in 1898, the same year the Spanish-American War was fought.
E) was, in large part, orchestrated by William McKinley before his assassination.

Question 34

Discuss American relations with Latin America and Asia in the aftermath of its annexation of the Philippines.What may have been considered "progressive" about Roosevelt's and Wilson's foreign policies at the time?

Question 35

Who summed up his foreign policy with this statement: "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?

A) William McKinley
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Secretary of War Elihu Root
D) Secretary of State John Hay
E) William Howard Taft

Question 36

After the Spanish-American War ended and the peace treaty was signed,the United States passed the Platt Amendment,which

A) gave freedom to the Filipinos.
B) proposed a close relationship between the governments of the United States and Cuba.
C) was added to the Cuban constitution and gave the United States the right to intervene militarily should revolution threaten.
D) provided for humanitarian aid to the Cubans for as long as necessary.
E) stated America's intention to annex Cuba.

Question 37

What were the major reasons given as the causes of the Spanish-American War? What other reasons did some Americans have for wanting to go to war?

Question 38

What were the major arguments of those who favored the buildup of an American empire at the end of the 1800s? What were the major arguments against such a move by isolationists? Who were some of the leading members of each group?

Question 39

Today's territory of American Samoa was a part of America's foray into gaining permanent footholds in the Pacific.

Question 40

President Cleveland's secretary of state used the Monroe Doctrine as the rationale for settling the Venezuela Crisis of 1895,since the British believed that the United States would be ready to go to war to protect Venezuelan territorial interests and integrity.

Question 41

American "realists" hoped that their country would assume its role as a great world power,while "idealists" wanted America to reform the world.

Question 42

Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan during his reelection campaign of 1916 was,"He Kept Us Out of War."

Question 43

In the Zimmerman Note,the Germans pledged to help Mexico take back Texas if Mexico would help them defeat the Americans in World War I.

Question 44

The United States became a principle player in the post-World War I League of Nations.

Question 45

The countries who entered into World War I together against the Germans were known as the Allied Powers.