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27 Empire and Expansion, 1890 - 1909

Shari Anderson 14 preguntas

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  1. 1Which of the following was the most significant factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century?
    1. AThe popular influence of the yellow press of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
    2. BConstruction of an American built isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
    3. CA missionary zeal to civilize and bring Christianity to the nonwhite peoples of the South Pacific, Caribbean, and Latin America
    4. DThe need for overseas markets for increased industrial and agricultural production
  2. 2What was the primary reason that Britain submitted its border dispute with Venezuela to international arbitration?
    1. AThe growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States
    2. BThe discovery of vast gold reserves in India diminished the importance of the British land claims in the jungle boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela
    3. CBritain feared becoming embroiled in a dangerous land war in South America
    4. DBritain had accepted America's complete political and economic domination over Latin America
  3. 3Why did the armed American effort to annex Hawaii fail to succeed in 1893?
    1. AIt was fiercely opposed by American sugar loads, who feared that annexation would eliminate their favored labor and trade arrangements with Hawaii
    2. BIncoming President Cleveland rejected annexation because he believed that native Hawaiians had been wronged by U.S. government support for an armed, sugar interest supported overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani that enjoyed negligible support among native Hawaiians
    3. CProtestant missionaries believed that annexation would slow the conversion of native Hawaiians and Chinese and Japanese immigrants to Christianity
    4. DA japanese threat to declare war on the United States if America annexed Hawaii caused incoming President Cleveland to oppose annexation
  4. 4Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
    1. Afear that the substantial American investment in Cuban sugar and other businesses would be lost
    2. Ba belief that Spain's control of Cuba presented a grave national security threat to the United States
    3. Cfear that Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route to the proposed Panama Canal\
    4. Dsympathy for Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom
  5. 5What was the most important reason that President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain?
    1. AThe Spanish government had directly provoked and insulted the United States
    2. BSpain refused to end the concentration camps and sign an armistice with Cuban rebels
    3. CMcKinley felt that the Teller Amendment would guarantee that the United States would not establish control of Cuba
    4. DThe American public, influenced by the yellow press, and many leading Republicans demanded war in the aftermath of the sinking of the Maine
  6. 6Which statement most accurately characterizes the U.S. Army's performance in Cuba during the Spanish-American War?
    1. AA model of tactical brilliance in an essentially guerrilla campaign
    2. BCrippled by logistical chaos and disease that killed thousands of soldiers
    3. CToo dependent on the professional military leadership of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
    4. DWeakened by lingering tensions between former Union and Confederate officers
  7. 7What was the primary argument emphasized by American imperialists who advocated acquisition of the Philippines?
    1. AThe strategic advantage of Philippine bases for American naval operations and defense of the Pacific
    2. BThe economic potential for the Philippines to advance trade with China and other Asian nations
    3. CThe opportunity the Philippines presented for Christian missionary work
    4. DThe potential of the Philippine immigrants to serve as a source of cheap industrial labor
  8. 8Anti-imperialists presented all of the following arguments against acquiring the Philippine Islands EXCEPT:
    1. Ait would violate "the consent of the governed" philosophy of the Declaration of Independence
    2. Bimperialism was likely to be more costly than profitable
    3. Cthe islands were still rightfully Spain's, since they were taken after the armistice had been signed
    4. Dannexation would propel the United States into the political and military cauldron of East Asia
  9. 9What was the direct cause of the Filipino insurrection in 1899?
    1. ASpanish citizens living in the Philippines allied with Filipino rebels to restore Spanish political control of the country
    2. BThe United States refused to give the Filipino people their political independence
    3. CAmerican missionaries were making efforts to convert Catholic Filipinos to Protestantism
    4. DThe Japanese instigated the insurrection in an effort to establish Japan's geopolitical dominance of the Pacific
  10. 10Why did many Americans become concerned about the increasing foreign intervention in China at the turn of the twentieth century?
    1. AThey feared that U.S. missions would be jeopardized and Chinese markets closed to non-Europeans
    2. BThey desired the United States to have exclusive trade rights with the Chinese
    3. CThey believed that such intervention undermined Chinese sovereignty
    4. DThey feared German military domination of China

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