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Which of the following was a major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century? |
a need for overseas markets for increased agricultural and industrial production
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Which of the following best summarizes what the many near-wars and diplomatic crises of the U.S. in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated? |
the aggressive new national mood
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Which of the following was used by Secretary of State Olney to justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain? |
the Monroe Doctrine
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Which of the following represents a primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration? |
growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States
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Which of the following prominent American leaders was least enthusiastic about U.S. imperialistic adventures in the 1890s? |
Grover Cleveland
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Which of the following is the reason that President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii? |
he believed that the native Hawaiians had been wronged and that a majority of Hawaiians opposed annexation to the United States |
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American favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except |
a belief that Spain's control of Cuba presented a national security threat to the United States. |
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The battleship Maine was sunk by which of the following? |
an accidental internal explosion on the ship
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Which of the following is a main reason McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain? |
the American public and many leading Republicans demanded it
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Which of the following had a major impact on the American military's successes during the Spanish-American War? |
effective use of the new steel navy
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American imperialists who advocated acquisition of the Philippines stressed which of the following?
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economic potential for American businessmen seeking trade with China and other Asian nations |
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Which of the following documents allowed the United States to assert that it had a virtual right of continuing intervention in Cuba? |
Platt Amendment
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Which of the following is a result of the American acquisition of the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War? |
the U.S. assumed rule over millions of Asian people
the U.S. assumed commitments that would be difficult to defend
the U.S. became a full-fledged East Asian power
All of these
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Which of these best describes why guerrilla warfare broke out in the Philippines in 1899? |
the United States refused to give the Filipino people their independence |
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Which of these marks the end of the Philippine insurrection? |
the 1901 capture of Emilio Aguinaldo
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Which of the following describes America's response to the Boxer Rebellion in China? |
the U.S. abandoned its general principles of nonentanglement and noninvolvement in overseas conflict |
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What did Secretary John Hay call on all of the great powers to do, in regards to the extended Open Door policy? |
uphold the territorial integrity of China |
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Which of the following best describes Teddy Roosevelt's opinion of the job of the president? |
He believed the president could take any action not specifically prohibited by the laws and the Constitution. |
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Construction of an isthmian canal across Central America was motivated mainly by which of the following? |
desire to improve defense by allowing rapid naval movements between two oceans |
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Which of the following best explains why Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia? |
the Colombian senate rejected the American offer to buy a canal route across Panama |
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What was the general international effect of Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive involvement in the Panamanian revolt? |
it led to increasing anti-American sentiment throughout Latin America |
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The Roosevelt Corollary added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to do which of the following? |
justify U.S. intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries
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Which of the following best describes the effect of frequent intervention of the United States in the affairs of Latin American countries in the early twentieth century? |
the U.S. was looked upon as a "Bad Neighbor" and there was ill will and distrust of the U.S. throughout Latin America |
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Which of the following best describes the primary diplomatic result of Roosevelt's diplomatic ending of the Russo-Japanese War? |
both Japan and Russia became more hostile to the United States
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Historians have argued that race and gender were important in Roosevelt's and other's justifications for imperialism because these imperialists |
regarded blacks as primitive and Anglo-Saxons as civilized.
claimed American society had lost touch with manly virtue
perceived other nations as at the bottom of a strict racial hierarchy.
All of these
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