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Chapter 23
An American Empire
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07/17/2013

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William Jennings Bryan...
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was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1900.
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Grover Cleveland...
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proposed to return Queen Liliuokalani to Hawaiian throne.
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George Dewey...
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captured Manila Bay.
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John Hay...
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was secretary of state and called the Spanish-American War "a splendid little war."
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William Randolph Hearst...
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owned the New York Journal.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan...
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wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
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Theodore Roosevelt...
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was elected vice-presidential in 1900.
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William H. Seward...
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acquired Alaska for the United States.
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Josiah Strong...
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wrote Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis.
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Philippe Bunau-Varilla...
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was a Panamanian ambassador.
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True/False: Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
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True
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True/False: Social Darwinist ideas attempted to justify policies of imperial expansion.
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True
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True/False: The purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million proved to be a huge bargain.
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True
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True/False: The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain.
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False
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True/False: Between 1875 and 1890, sugar from Hawaii could enter the United States duty-free.
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True
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True/False: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as "green journalism."
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False
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True/False: Spain conceded to practically all the American demands concerning Cuba before the United States declared war.
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True
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True/False: In an act of terrorism, Spaniards in Cuba blew up the battleship Maine.
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False
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True/False: Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War.
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True
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True/False: Roosevelt led a charge over Kettle Hill.
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True
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True/False: Roosevelt referred to the Spanish-American War as the "splendid little war."
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False
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True/False: The treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the United States the Philippines narrowly passed the U.S. Senate.
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True
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True/False: McKinley was reelected in 1900 despite losing the popular vote to William Jennings Bryan.
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False
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True/False: A French company dug a canal part of the way through Panama in the 1880s.
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True
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True/False: The United States agreed to pay $10 million plus $250,000 a year for the Panama Canal Zone.
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True
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Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following: an ongoing quest for markets and raw materials, nationalistic pride and rivalries between powers, and the desire to Christianize EXCEPT:
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the fear that Bolshevik ideas might advance around the globe.
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John Fiske:
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wrote American Political Ideas, a book that stressed the superior character of Anglo-Saxon peoples and institutions.
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In 1878 the Samoans signed a treaty with the United States, giving the United States:
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a naval base on one of its islands.
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When Americans led an overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s:
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President Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii to the United States.
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The term yellow journalism arose from the:
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circulation war between two New York newspapers
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The battleship Maine:
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was the source of a battle cry in the Spanish-American War.
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The Teller Amendment:
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disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory.
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The ultimate blame for going to war with Spain belongs to:
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the American people, for letting themselves be whipped into a frenzy.
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The treaty ending the Spanish-American War:
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was opposed by most Democrats and Populists.
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All of the following were put forward as reasons for the U.S. annexation of the Philippines: the desire to Christianize, acquiring better access trade with China, the need to keep the Philippines being taken over by foreign rivals, and the need to keep the Filipino sugar supply flowing EXCEPT:
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the large oil and coal deposits in the Philippines.
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As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States:
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became a world power.
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The Platt Amendment:
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sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new government.
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What future president was the civil governor of the Philippines in 1901?
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William H. Taft
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Residents of Puerto Rico became citizens of the United States in:
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1917
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The Open Door policy:
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proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis.
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With the Boxer Rebellion, all of the following occurred: Chinese nationalists laid siege to foreign embassies, Peking came under control with the arrival of foreign troops, Chinese nationalists rebelled against foreign involvement, and a group emerged known as Fists of Righteous Harmony EXCEPT:
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Secretary of State Hay abandoned the Open Door policy.
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In 1896 Theodore Roosevelt campaigned hard for William McKinley, and the new president rewarded by appointing him:
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assistant secretary of the navy.
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The Hay-Herran Treaty:
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concerned America's right to build a canal in Panama.
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When the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone:
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the Colombian province of Panama rebelled against Colombia.
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:
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stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the interventions of other powers.
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As a result of Japan's show of strength in the Russo-Japanese War:
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Americans began to doubt the security of the Philippines.
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In the so-called Gentleman's Agreement, President Roosevelt:
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stopped the flow of Japanese immigrants to America.
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Through his intervention in the Moroccan crisis in 1906, President Roosevelt:
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may have prevented a war pitting France and Britain against Germany.
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Roosevelt's intervention in the Russo-Japanese War and the Moroccan dispute:
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won him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1906.
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