American Pageant Ch 27: Mc

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T/F: The American government was deeply involved in the key international developments of the 1870s and 1880s

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False

Front 2

T/F: Alfred T. Mahan argued in his book that the conquest of colonies was necessary to provide raw materials and markets and was the key to world history

Back 2

False

Front 3

T/F: The South Americaan boundary dispute over Guyana in 1895-1896 nearly resulted in a U.S. war with Venezuela

Back 3

False

Front 4

T/F: The Venezuelan boundary dispute was resolved when the United States backed away because of its growing conflict with Germany.

Back 4

False

Front 5

Why did President Cleveland refuse to annex Hawaii?

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He believed that the white American planters there had unjustly deposed of Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani

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Why did Americans first become involved in Cuba?

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They sympathized with the Cubans' revolt against imperialist Spain

Front 7

T/F: President McKinley tried to resist the pressure for war with Spain coming from business-peopple and wall Street financiers

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False

Front 8

Why did Admiral Dewey's squadron attack Spanish forces in the Philippines?

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Because of secret orders given by Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt

Front 9

T/F: American forces received assistance in capturing Manila by native Filipinos who were rebelling against Spain

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True

Front 10

T/F: The American military conquest of Cuba was efficient but very costly in battlefield casualties

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False

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T/F: President McKinley declared that religion played a role in his decision to keep the Philippines

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True

Front 12

T/F: The treaty to annex the Philippines was approved by a wide margin in the Senate

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False

Front 13

T/F: The Supreme Court decided that American constitutional law and the bill of rights applied to the people under American rule in Puerto Rico and the Philippines

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False

Front 14

What was one consequence of the Spanish-American War?

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It made the United States a full-fledged power in East Asia.

Front 15

Alfred Thayer Mahan promoted overseas expansion by

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arguing that sea power was the key to world domination

Front 16

What was not a factor in propelling America toward overseas expansion in the 1890s?

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the need to find new African and Asian sources of raw materials for American industry

Front 17

The final result of the Venezuela-Guiana crisis with Britain was

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British retreat and growing American-British friendship

Front 18

President Grover Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii because

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white planters had illegally overthrown Queen Liliuokalani against the wishes of most native Hawaiians

Front 19

Even before the sinking of the Maine, the American public's indignation at Spain had been whipped into a frenzy by

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William Randolph Hearst's sensational newspaper accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba

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Even after the Maine exploded, the United States was slow to declare war on Cuba because

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President McKinley was reluctant to get into a war.

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Emilio Aguinaldo was

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the leader of Filipino insurgents against Spanish rule

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The largest cause of American deaths in Cuba was

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bad food, disease, and unsanitary conditions

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In addition to Cuba, American forces successfully seized the Spanish-owned Caribbean island of

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Puerto Rico

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President William McKinley based his decision to make the Philippines an American colony on

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a combination of religious piety and material economic interests

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Among prominent Americans who opposed annexation of the Philippines were

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Mark Twain and William James

Front 26

Pro-imperialist Americans argued that Philippines should be seized because of

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patriotism and economic opportunities

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The Platt Amendment provided that

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the United States had the right to intervene with troops and maintain military bases in Cuba