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74 Cards in this Set
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Which English explorer first discovered the Hawaiian Islands? When?
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James Cook; 1778
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Who was the first white man to visit the area of Alaska?
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Bering
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Who was Lincoln's secretary of state?
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Seward
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Who urged congress to purchase Alaska?
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Seward
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What area of land was purchased by the US in 1867?
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Alaska
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what was this area's nickname?
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Seward's ice box
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What is the metal whose discovery made many people rush to Alaska?
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Gold
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what body of water lied north of Alaska?
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Arctic Ocean
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what nation sold Alaska to the US?
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Russia
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What narrow body of water separates Asia from North America?
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Bering Strait
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What area of Russia is close to Alaska?
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Siberia
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What country borders Alaska on the east?
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Canada
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In admission to statehood, what number is Alaska?
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49th
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who was the commander of the US fleet that opened Japan to US trade?
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Matthew C. Perry
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Who gave America its claim to the Hawaiian Islands?
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Robert Gray
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What are a group of islands in which early United States possessions in the Pacific Ocean were located?
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Samoa
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What is the site of the US naval base on the Samoan islands?
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pago pago
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what product of the Hawaiian island did americans desire?
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sugar
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What man set up pineapple plantations in Hawaii?
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Dole
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what is the process by which the US took over hawaii?
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annexation
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what is the term for people who wanted the US to gain new territories?
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expansionists
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What was the president who blocked an attempt to make Hawaii a possession of the US?
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Cleveland
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Who was president when Hawaii was annexed?
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McKinley
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Who was the last Hawaiian monarch?
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Queen L.
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in admission to statehood, what number is Hawaii?
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50
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Who was the secretary of state who opened trade with china?
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John Hay
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What is the idea that every nation would have equal trading rights with China?
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open door policy
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what is the policy of extending the rule of an empire or nation over foreign countries?
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imperialism
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in what country did the Boxer Rebellion occur?
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China
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What nation controlled the Philippine Islands before 1898?
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Spain
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What 2 islands in the Pacific Ocean did the US take in 1898?
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Guam and Wake
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What is a long, narrow island in the west indies controlled by spain before 1898?
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Cuba
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in what sea is cuba situated?
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Caribbean
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What is Cuba's largest city?
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Havana
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What country controlled Puerto Rico before 1898?
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Spain
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What war lasted only 100 days?
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Spanish-American War
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what three territories were gained by the US from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War?
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Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Cuba
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what is the practice of featuring sensational news with large headlines to sell papers?
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Yellow journalism
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Who was the man whose newspapers helped get the US into the Spanish American War?
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Hearst
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What is information or ideas that are spread to help or hurt a cause, group, or nation?
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propaganda
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what are small groups of fighters who strike suddenly without warning and then disappear?
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guerrillas
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in what cuban crop did many Americans invest?
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sugar cane
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what is a feeling of pride in your country?
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patriotism
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what battleship was sent to protect Americans living in Havana?
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Maine
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what ship whose destruction caused the US to declare war on Spain?
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Maine
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In what harbor was the Maine blown up?
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Havana Harbor
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Who was the most famous of the Rough Riders during American's war with Spain?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What place did the rough riders charge?
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San Juan Hill
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Who was the US admiral at Manila Bay?
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George Dewey
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On what bay is Manila a seaport?
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Manila Bay
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Where is Manila?
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The Philippines
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Who was the Filipino leader that wanted his nation to become independent in 1898?
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Alguinaldo
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what insect did army doctors found carried yellow fever?
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mosquitos
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what 2 diseases killed many Americans in cuba?
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Yellow fever and Malaria
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what battleship whose late arrival in Cuba during the Spanish-American war showed the need for a central american canal?
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The Oregon
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what country had started to build a canal in Panama but failed?
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France
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What cuban doctor believed that yellow fever was carried by mosquitoes?
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Carlos Finlay
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Who was the American doctor that headed the yellow fever commission, which discovered the cause of yellow fever?
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Walter Reed
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Who helped stamp out yellow fever in Panama before building the canal?
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William Gorgas
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Who was the Army doctor appointed to govern cuba after the spanish american war?
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Leonard Wood
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who said the United States should "walk softly and carry a big stick"?
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Roosevelt
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What country controlled Panama before the United States helped the area rebel?
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Columbia
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what bodies of water are connected by the
Panama Canal? |
Pacific and Atlantic
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Who was president when the Panama canal was begun?
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T. Roosevelt
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Who was the chief engineer of the Panama Canal?
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Goethals
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what islands were brought by the Us to protect the Panama Canal?
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US Virgin islands
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what country sold the Virgin Islands to the US?
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Denmark
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who was president of the US when it purchased the Virgin islands?
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Wilson
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What American naval base was established on Cuba to help protect the Panama Canal?
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Guantanamo Bay
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What mechanisms are built into the panama canal to raise and lower water levels so ships could pass through?
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locks
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what country did many Americans feel a canal should be built rather than in Panama?
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Nicaragua
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Through what country did the US build a canal?
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Panama
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who was the president of the Us when the panama canal opened
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Woodrow Wilson
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What act made the people of puerto rico citizens of the US
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Jones Act
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