History quiz ch 19 – Flashcards
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The teller amendment to the war resolutions
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called for cuban self government
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The 1890 book, The influence of Sea Power Upon History, influenced the US to invest in
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**Merchant steamships
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How does this painting of a charge up the San Juan Heights accord with the actual event
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How does this cartoon portray the position of the US in relation to the Caribbean
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In the illustration, a large Roosevelt dominates the Caribbean sea just as the US hoped to do in reality
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The primary goal of the American government's imperialistic policies was
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economic opportunity
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After buying the project from the Panama Canal company, how did the United States gain control of the region where the Panama
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US naval forces supported the Panamanian revolt against colombia
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According to the British poet Rudyard Kipling, the white man's burden was the responsibility to
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civilize so called racially inferior people
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Picture brides were
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Japanese women in long distance arranged marriages to men in the US
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What effect did the insular cases have on constitutional rights for colonial populations
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Why did the US establish American protectorates in the Caribbean
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to ensure its market dominance in the Americas
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What was ironic about the dispute in the United States about whether American needed the consent of colonized peoples to govern them?
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Today, many experts believe the Maine probably sank due to
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an internal explosion
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Who funded the Panamanian revolt against colombia
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the New Panama Canal Company
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Commodore George Dewey led the Americans to victory
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in Manila Harbor
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How did descriptions of life in China affect American foreign policy
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US leaders became interested in gaining access to Chinese markets and tried to restrict Europeans from building colonies there through the open door policy
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What ere spheres of influence
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exclusive political and trading rights within another nation's territory
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What were measurements of the head and face as seen in this image believed to reveal
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racial classifications
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Why was angel island a place of sorrow for some Japanese and Chinese immigrants
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Asian immigrants were detained there and often interrogated while American authorities attempted to verify their identities
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The main Asian imperialist power around the turn of the 20th century was
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Japan
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For what reason did Americans pursue westward expansion in the nineteenth century
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to increase economic opportunities
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Why did Theodore Roosevelt worry that there could be a European invasion of the Caribbean during his presidency
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The Dominican Republic and Venezuela were indebted to European nations
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Which statement might a believer in social Darwinism have made regarding U.S imperialism
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We must promote the superiority of our culture in an effort to ensure world stability
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How was American imperialism in Puerto rico, Guam, and the philippines, different from the informal economic empire it established in the caribbeam
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The three countries became actual colonies of the United States as a result of the Spanish -American war
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Who was Emillio Aguinaldo
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the Filipino leader who declared independence from Spain
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Theodore Roosevelt saw the Roosevelt Corollary as
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a logical extension of the Monroe Doctrine
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Major outsomes of the Spanish-American War included which of the following
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the emergence of the united States as a world power
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Amigo warfare was the american term for
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The Filipino way of fighting
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What is a protectorate
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a country or territory under the protective authority of a stronger nations
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What was the effect of Filipion rebels' efforts to attract African American soldiers to their cause
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Only a few soldiers joined the filipinos to fight against the US
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Why did the federal government institute the Dollar Diplomacy policy
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to maintain US economic dominance in Latin America
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Thousands of African American laborers from the American South dug much of the panama canal
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False
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American war hawks claimed that the Maine sank because of an attack by Cuban rebels
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False
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Because of the economic depression from 1893 to 1897, many american became determined to build commercial markets overseas
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True
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, colonists in North and South America staged a series of successful revolutions against their European rulers
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True
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To uproot the Filipino guerrillas, the US army adopted a mix of persuasive and coerave tactics
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True
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By the 1890s, European nations had created empires that extended throughout the entire world, excepting the Western hemisphere and China
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True
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President Theodore Roosevelt was not eager to establish the Dominican Republic as a protectorate of the IS
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True
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Yellow journalism exploited an American desire for isolationism to avoid war during the 1890s
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False
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Because of excellent working conditions at the building site of the Oanama Canal, very few workers died during its construction
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False
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, U.S citizenship was open only to white persons and those whose ancestors came from africa
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True
