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Before a treaty annexing Hawaii to the United States could be rushed through the U.S. Senate in 1893

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President Harrison's term expired and anti-imperialist Grover Cleveland became president

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A major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870s was

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The scarcity of water

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The United States signed the Hay-Paunefote treaty with ______, the Hay-Buneau-Varilla Treaty with ______, and the Gentlemen's Agreement with _______

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Britain; Panama; Japan

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Anti-imperialists presented all of the following arguments against acquiring the Philippine Islands EXCEPT that

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The islands were still rightfully Spain's, for they were taken after the armistice had been signed

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The Morrill Act of 1862

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Granted public lands to states to support higher education

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The United States declared war on Spain even though the Spanish had already agreed to

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End the reconcentration camps and sign an armistice with the Cuban rebels

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Construction of an isthmian canal across the Central America was mainly by

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A desire to improve defense by allowing rapid naval movement between two oceans

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The actual purpose of the battleship Maine's visit to Cuba was to

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Protect and evacuate American citizens from the Island

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The Farmer's Alliance was originally formed to

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Break the economic grip of the railroads through farmers' cooperatives

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A Century of Dishonor (1881), which chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations, was authored by

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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China's Boxer Rebellion was an attempt to

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Throw out or kill all foreigners

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William Jennings Brya gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic part primarily because he

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Eloquently supported the farmers' demand for the unlimited coinage of silver

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The nineteenth-century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians

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Had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them

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The Farmers' Alliance was weakened by

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Its inability to overcome racial divisions in the South

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Arrange the following events in chronological order:(A) Dawes Severalty Act is passed: (B) Oklahoma land rush takes place; (C) Indians are granted full citizenship; and (D) Congress restores the tribal basis of Indian life.

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A, B, C. D

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In 1899, guerrilla warfare broke out in the Philippines because

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The United States refused to give Filipino people their independence

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Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia because

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

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President's McKinley's policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines

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Was not welcomed by the Filipinos

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All of the following were reasons for the failure of the People's (Populists) party EXCEPT:

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The prosperity of the early 1890s undermined popular support for Populists economic reforms

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The "White Man's Burden" referred to

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The belief that it was the duty of Whites to "civilize" non-white people through colonization or economic dominance of non-white lands

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The "free silver" campaign of 1896 received its greatest popular support from

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Farmers. who hoped that a more generous money supply would ease their debt burdens

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What part of the world was targeted b the Good Neighbor Policy?

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Latin America

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The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

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Assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

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(Platform of the American Anti-Imperlists League, October 18 1899) Which of the following most directly contributed to the anti-imperialists expressed in the excerpt?

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The provisions of the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War

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(Platform of the American Anti-Imperlists League, October 18 1899) Which of the following represents a policy that the authors of the excerpt would most likely support?

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President Wilson's signing of the Jones Act in 1916

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The ultimate aim of official U.S. Indian policy during the time of the photograph above was to

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Assimilate native populations to the American way of life

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The United States' frequent intervention in the affairs of Latin America countries in the early twentieth century

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left a legacy of ill will and distrust of the United States throughout Latin America

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Immediately before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been serving as

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The governor of New Jersey

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President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

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Dollar diplomacy

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The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was

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The big city

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The secret Gentlemen's Agreement that President Theodore Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese in 1907-1908

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caused japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board

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Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by

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Victoria Huerta

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Which of the following was NOT among influential Populists leaders?

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Eugene V. Debs

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Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct a strongly anti-imperialists U.S. foreign policy were first undermined when he

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Sent American marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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The Roosevelt Corollary added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to

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

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To justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain, Secretary of State Olney invoked the

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Monroe Doctrine

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The United States declared war on Spain even though the Spanish has already agreed to

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End the reconcentration camps and sign an armistice with the Cuban rebels

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President Mckinley's policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines

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Was not welcomed by the Filipinos

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Among the following, the least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier were

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Eastern city dwellers

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The nineteenth-century humanitarians who advocated kind treatment of the Indians

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had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them

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In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the volume of agricultural goods _______, and the price received for these goods _______

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Increased; decreased

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The monetary inflation needed to relieve the social and economic hardships of the late nineteenth century eventually came as a result of

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An increase in the international gold supply

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Arrange the following events in Chronological order: (A) American declaration of war on Spain, (B) sinking of the Main, (C) passage of the Teller Amendment, and (D) passage of the Platt Amendment

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B, A, C, D

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Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

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Control of the sea was the key to world domination

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Which of the following constitutes a significant change int the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the of the nineteenth century ?

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The division of the tribal lands among individual members

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What trend in news reporting became popular in America near the beginning of the twentieth century ?

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Yellow Journalism

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The "Ghost Dancer" movement among Western Native Americans stressed all of the following EXCEPT

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Non-violence

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following ?

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Declared the United States to be the "policeman" of the Western Hemisphere

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The United States Open Door policy in Asia did which of the following ?

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Bolstered American commercial interests in China

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(Platform of the American Anti-Imperialists League, October 17, 1899) The leader most closely associated with the viewpoint in the excerpt was

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William Jennings Bryan

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Construction of an isthmian canal across Central America was motivated mainly by

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

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Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia because

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

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The area of the country in which the federal government has done the most to aid economic and social development is

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The West

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The first major famers' organization was the

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National Grange

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Woodrow Wilson's early effects to conduct a strongly anti-imperialist U.S. foreign policy was first undermined when he

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Sent american marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by

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Victoriano Huerta

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President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

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Dollar diplomacy

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Teddy's Roosevelt's role in the Panamanian Revolution involved

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Using American naval forces to block Colombian troops from crushing the revolt

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The American war against the Philippine insurrectionists promoting Philippine independence

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Resulted in torture and atrocities committed by both sides

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Immediately before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been serving as

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The governor of New Jersey.

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The monetary inflation needed to relive the social and economic hardships of the late nineteenth century eventually came as a result of

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An increase in the international gold supply

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Teddy Roosevelt promoted what might be called a "Bad Neighbor" policy by

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Adding the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and intervening in Latin American affairs

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The Homestead Act

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Was a drastic depature from previous government public land policy designed to raise revenue

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The Open Door policy of the early twentieth century called for

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Open access to China for American investment and commercial interests

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A s a result of the Spanish-American War, Spain relinquished to the United States control of Puerto Rico,Cuba, and which of the following

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The Philippines

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The most important factor in the destruction of the Plains Indians' societies by Whites in the late nineteenth century was

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The destruction of the Buffalo Herds by Whites

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Which of the following led immediately and directly to Theodore Roosevelt's issuance of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

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American fear that financial instability in the Dominican Republic would lead to European intervention

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