U.s. History Chapter 27

Front 1

Which of the following was a major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

Back 1

a need for overseas markets for increased agricultural and industrial production

Front 2

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?

Back 2

the aggressive new national mood

Front 3

Which of the following was used by Secretary of State Olney to justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain?

Back 3

the Monroe Doctrine

Front 4

Which of the following represents a primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration?

Back 4

growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States

Front 5

Which of the following prominent American leaders was least enthusiastic about U.S. imperialistic adventures in the 1890s?

Back 5

Grover Cleveland

Front 6

Which of the following is the reason that President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii?

Back 6

he believed that the native Hawaiians had been wronged and that a majority of Hawaiians opposed annexation to the United States

Front 7

American favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except

Back 7

a belief that Spain's control of Cuba presented a national security threat to the United States.

Front 8

The battleship Maine was sunk by which of the following?

Back 8

an accidental internal explosion on the ship

Front 9

Which of the following is a main reason McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain?

Back 9

the American public and many leading Republicans demanded it

Front 10

Which of the following had a major impact on the American military's successes during the Spanish-American War?

Back 10

effective use of the new steel navy

Front 11

American imperialists who advocated acquisition of the Philippines stressed which of the following?

Back 11

economic potential for American businessmen seeking trade with China and other Asian nations

Front 12

Which of the following documents allowed the United States to assert that it had a virtual right of continuing intervention in Cuba?

Back 12

Platt Amendment

Front 13

Which of the following is a result of the American acquisition of the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War?

Back 13

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

Front 14

Which of these best describes why guerrilla warfare broke out in the Philippines in 1899?

Back 14

the United States refused to give the Filipino people their independence

Front 15

Which of these marks the end of the Philippine insurrection?

Back 15

the 1901 capture of Emilio Aguinaldo

Front 16

Which of the following describes America's response to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

Back 16

the U.S. abandoned its general principles of nonentanglement and noninvolvement in overseas conflict

Front 17

What did Secretary John Hay call on all of the great powers to do, in regards to the extended Open Door policy?

Back 17

uphold the territorial integrity of China

Front 18

Which of the following best describes Teddy Roosevelt's opinion of the job of the president?

Back 18

He believed the president could take any action not specifically prohibited by the laws and the Constitution.

Front 19

Construction of an isthmian canal across Central America was motivated mainly by which of the following?

Back 19

desire to improve defense by allowing rapid naval movements between two oceans

Front 20

Which of the following best explains why Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia?

Back 20

the Colombian senate rejected the American offer to buy a canal route across Panama

Front 21

What was the general international effect of Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive involvement in the Panamanian revolt?

Back 21

it led to increasing anti-American sentiment throughout Latin America

Front 22

The Roosevelt Corollary added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to do which of the following?

Back 22

justify U.S. intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries

Front 23

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?

Back 23

the U.S. was looked upon as a "Bad Neighbor" and there was ill will and distrust of the U.S. throughout Latin America

Front 24

Which of the following best describes the primary diplomatic result of Roosevelt's diplomatic ending of the Russo-Japanese War?

Back 24

both Japan and Russia became more hostile to the United States

Front 25

Historians have argued that race and gender were important in Roosevelt's and other's justifications for imperialism because these imperialists

Back 25

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