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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich country was granted independence in the Treaty of Paris of 1898 at the end of the Spanish American War?GuamCubaPhilippinesPuerto Rico
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the purpose of the Open Door Policy in China?End the Boxer RebellionEnsure trading rights with ChinaWin leaseholds in ChinaEstablish a sphere of influence
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Which territory did the United States NOT gain direct control of after the Spanish-American War?Puerto RicoCubaPhilippinesGuam - 4. Multiple ChoiceThe passing of what piece of United States legislation sparked the Boxer Rebellion?the Platt Amendmentthe Monroe Doctrinethe Open Door Policythe Chinese Exclusion Act
- 5. Multiple ChoiceAlfred T. Mahan argued:to become an empire, the US needed to acquire naval bases and strengthen its naval powerthe burden of the white man is to support and uplift non-whitesimperialism was not democratic and engaging in it would be hypocriticalthe nation's economic needs could be satisfied from within as the US should avoid risking itself in foreign entanglements
- 6. Multiple ChoiceAmericans were concerned about the events in Cuba because:American lives were at risk thereAmerican economic investments were being threatenedAmerican plantations were being destroyed by rebel forcesall of the above
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat ensured that Cuba would remain tied to the United States?Roosevelt CorollaryForaker ActAnglo-SaxonismPlatt Amendment
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat idea or belief states that Americans have a God-given right to expand west?Manifest DestinyImperialismIsolationismDemocracy
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat policy gave the United States justification for helping Cuba?Big Stick DiplomacyDeclaration of Human RightsMonroe DoctrineDollar Diplomacy
- 10. Multiple ChoiceAccording to the Roosevelt Corollary, what was the role of the US in the Western Hemisphere?Ok for Europeans to imperializeinternational police forceallow imperialism in the Americasallow European nations to take over
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat island did Alfred Thayer Mahan think would be important in fortifying their new Imperial status?CubaGuamPuerto RicoHawaii
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWho was the Secretary of the Navy that resigned his position to go fight in the Spanish-American War with a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders?Alfred Thayer MahanWalter ReedTheodore RooseveltWilliam McKinley
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the type of sensational reporting where writers exaggerated or even invented stories?muckrakingyellow journalismjournalismpaparazzi
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat was Roosevelt's policy called?Dollar DiplomacyBig Stick DiplomacySphere of InfluencePan-Americanism
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the US encourage a Panamanian Revolution against Colombia?to allow nationalismto build the Panama Canalto spread imperialismto enforce the Roosevelt Corollary and establish a naval base
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