40 questions
1. All of the following propelled the United States into expansionism EXCEPT:
The international antislavery movement
A quest for new foreign markets
Missionary zeal and the “white man’s burden”
International competition and power
__________ analyzed the 1890 Census report and came up with the Frontier Thesis, which he believe is what make Americans “American.” He also concluded that the U.S. is no longer a frontier therefore justify the idea of imperialist expansionism.
Mahan
Turner
Weyler
Upton Sinclair
1. __________ was obtained/bought from the Russians in 1867 that was originally though to be worthless until the discovery of gold.
Philippines
Hawaii
Cuba
Alaska
The sugar planter who orchestrated a coup for American to gain control of and annex Hawaii was _________.
Lili’uokalani
Alaska
Weyler
De Lome
1. ___________ was a Spanish general who established the Reconcentration Policy in Cuba to weed out the revolutionaries and eliminated guerrilla warfare.
De Lome
Mahan
Weyler
Turner
One of the causes of the Spanish-American War was a newspaper war in New York between Hearst and Pulitzer.
True
False
The _____________ was an honest assessment on the condition of Cubans in Cuba that concluded that America should be get involved for humanitarian reasons.
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Cuba
Hay-Herran Treaty
Calhoun Report
After McKinley first meeting with _________, where McKinley hinted the Spanish to give the Cubans autonomy or else, a letter that insulted McKinley was sent, obtained by Cuban revolutionaries, and published by Hearst.
De Lome
Alaska
Turner
Weyler
The cause of the explosion of the Maine was found to be accidental and was known by the navy as early as 1898.
True
False
Attached to the declaration of war against Spain in 1898 was the ___________, which stated that the United States has no intention of obtaining Cuba.
Platt Amendment
Underwood Tariff
16th Amendment
Teller Amendment
The first battle of the Spanish-American War was fought at _________, in the Philippines.
Manila Bay
San Juan Hill/Kettle Hill
Santiago Bay
Panama Canal
The Spanish-American War was characterized as being
A long and drawn-out war
A war purely to save lives
Short and lucrative for the United States
Well prepared for
Roosevelt and the Rough Riders was in charged of the Battle of _________ Hill with the purpose to force the Spanish fleet out of Santiago Bay.
San Juan
Manila Bay
Kettle
Santiago Bay
Because of his support for American imperialism, William Jennings Bryan encouraged the ratification of the Treaty of Paris (1898).
True
False
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired all of the following EXCEPT:
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Guam
______________, a 28-year old Anarchist, assassinated President McKinley after his key note address in Buffalo, New York.
Leon Czolgosz
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffen
________ were mostly middle-class idealist and reformers.
Big Stick Diplomacy
Progressives
Populist Party
Missionary Diplomacy
The author of The Jungle, the muckraking work about the meat-packing industry, was ___________.
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Robert LaFollette
In History of the Standard Oil Company, ____________ revealed that Rockefeller was a miser, who would throw pennies at Children as an attempt to distract them from him.
Robert LaFollette
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
In Shame of the Cities, __________ revealed that the political machines were neglecting their duty of cleaning the streets.
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffen
Robert LaFollette
1. The father of Progressivism and the architect of the Wisconsin Plan was ___________.
Robert LaFollette
Leon Czolgosz
John J. Pershing
Roosevelt Corollary
The Sherman Anti-trust Act (1890), which stated any business combination in restraint of trade is illegal, was used to successfully bust a Railroad trust in the Northern Securities Case during Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency.
True
False
The ________ Act strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which led to fairer railroad rates.
Overman
Hepburn
Sherman Antitrust
Pure Food and Drug
_______________ was established in 1906, which was an attempt to forbade the manufacture and sale of adulterated or fraudulently labeled products, and eventually took out cocaine from coke.
Sedition Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Hepburn Act
The ___________ Tariff was initiated during Wilson’s administration setting a record for the lowest tariff rate at 27%.
Northern Securities
Income
Hay-Herran
Underwood
The ____ amendment established direct election of U.S. Senators during Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency.
16th
17th
19th
Platt
The __________________ was an extension to the Monroe Doctrine, stating if the affairs of any state residing in the western hemisphere lure the attention of any European powers, then the United States have the right to intervene.
Roosevelt Corollary
Missionary Diplomacy
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Teller Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt did not become the Republican presidential nominee in 1912 because Taft proved more popular with grass-roots Republican voters in most of the state primaries
True
False
The other nation (besides Panama) that the U.S. was considering for an isthmian canal was ___________.
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Panama Canal
San Juan
In the ___________ Treaty, the United States would get a 99-year canal lease on a zone six miles wide in Panama, which was rejected by the Colombian senate
Hay-Herran
Hay-Bunau-Varilla
Manila Bay
Underwood
1. In the ______________ Treaty, the United States would get a perpetual canal lease on a zone 10 miles wide, which was ratified by the Panamanian government.
Hay-Herran
Underwood
Hay-Bunau-Varilla
Santiago Bay
De jure recognition is recognition of a new government with judgement while de facto recognition is automatic recognition of a new government.
True
False
All of the following were Mexican Revolutionaries in the early 20th century EXCEPT for:
Venustiano Carranza
Enrique de Lome
Francisco Modero
Victoriano Huerta
Before Cuba was given independence, they were forced to accept the ___________ that allowed for future American intervention if needed and guaranteed a U.S. naval base on the island.
Income Tax
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
17th Amendment
All of the following propelled the United States into expansionism EXCEPT:
The international antislavery movement
A quest for new foreign markets
Missionary zeal and the “white man’s burden”
International competition and power
The author who wrote how the United States could become a world power is
Kipling
Turner
Mahan
Weyler
The Spanish general that implemented the reconcentration policy to destroy Cuban Revolutionaries
William McKinley
Valeriano Weyler
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Enrique de Lome
. The first battle of the Spanish-American war was
Manila Bay
San Juan
Santiago
Kettle Hill
The purpose of the Teller Amendment is to
Ensure the democratic party that Cuba would not be annexed
Allow the United States to intervene with Cuba for whatever reason
Ensure the republican party that Cuba would not be annexed
Ensure the democratic party that Cuba would be annexed
The Progressives were
Educated
Middle Class idealist and reformers
Conservative reformers
All of the above