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T/F: The Filipino insurrection against US rule was larger and more costly in lives than the Spanish-American War

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True

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T/F: John Hay's Open Door notes effectively saved China from foreign intervention and partition

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False

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T/F: The McKinley-Roosevelt victory in 1900 over the anti-imperialist campaign of William Jennings Bryan was interpreted as a public mandate for American imperialism.

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False

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T/F: Theodore Roosevelt believed taht America and its president should exercise restraint in international involvements

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False

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T/F: Roosevelt encouraged and assisted the Panamanian revolution against Colombia in 1903

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True

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T/F: Roosevelt took strong action to acquire canal rights in Panama because there was no alternative route for a Central American canal.

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False

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The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that only the US had the right to intervene in Latin American nations' affairs

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True

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Roosevelt's negotiation to bring about a peace treaty between Russia and Japan earned the United States the gratitude of both nations

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False

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The Japanese crisis of 1906 forced President Roosevelt to intervene in the policies of the San Francisco School Board

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True

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The "Gentlemen's Agreement" and the Root-Takahira agreement demonstrated Roosevelt's eagerness to avoid a major conflict with Japan

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True

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The most immediate consequence of American acquisition of the Philippines was

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a guerrilla war between the united States and Filipino rebels

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In the Open Door notes, Secretary of State John Hay called on all the imperial powers to

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respect Chines rights and permit economic competition in their spheres of influence

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The Boxer Rebellion marked a sharp departure for American foreign policy because

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the United States had never before sent military forces to intervene on the east Asian mainland.

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Theodore Roosevelt was nominated as President McKinley's vice-presidential running mate in 1900 because

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local political bosses in NY wanted to get Roosevelt out of the state

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In the election of 1900, Democrat William Jennings Bryan declared taht the key issue was

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American imperialism in the Philippines

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As president, Theodore Roosevelt gained political strength especially through

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his personal popularity with the public and his belief in direct action

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Besides Panama, the primary alternative site for a Central American canal was

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Nicaragua

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Roosevelt overcame Colombia's refusal to approve a canal treaty by

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encouraging Panamanian rebels to revolt and declare independence from Colombia.

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The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine declared that

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the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American countries to maintain financial and political order

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Roosevelt's policies in Panama and elsewhere in Latin America led to

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resentment and hostility toward American intervention in Latin America

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Theodroe Roosevelt's slogan that stated his essential foreign policy principle was

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"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

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Roosevelt meditated the Portsmouth Treaty to settle the war between

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Russia and Japan

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The diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan in 1906 was caused by

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the San Francisco School Board's segregation of Japanese immigrant children

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"The Gentlemen's Agreement" between the United States and Japan provided that

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the San Francisco schools would be integrated in exchange for Japan putting an end to Japanese immigration to America.

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Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet" essentially served as

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a demonstration of American naval power in East Asia