Exam 20: Seizing an American Empire

Although rooted in the hope of American businesses to dominate Chinese markets, the Open Door policy appealed to anti-imperialists because it promised to prevent the division of China by European nations.

Mexico's revolutionary leader who successfully took control of Mexico City in 1911 was quickly ousted by

In the election of 1900, the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket campaigned on a platform that

During the Spanish-American War, more American soldiers died from disease than battle.

Match each description with the item below. -Emilio Aguinaldo

Despite the official religion of the Philippines having been ________, American missionaries were eager to win converts there and argued they needed to Christianize the Filipinos.

Compare the arguments of those who favored annexing the Philippines with those who opposed it. Evaluate which position was stronger and why.

In 1878, the Samoans signed a treaty with the United States giving the United States

Which of the following was the territory in Latin America that the United States acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War?

What factors motivated America's new imperialism after the Civil War?

Like Theodore Roosevelt and John Fiske, many Americans in the late nineteenth century believed that the ________ race was superior.

Theodore Roosevelt called William Howard Taft's diplomacy "dollar diplomacy" because he continued to promote American economic interests abroad.

During the 1880s, a French company convinced the United States to purchase the partially completed Panama Canal.

Social Darwinist ideas were used to justify policies of imperial expansion.

American imperialism in the late nineteenth century was justified as a broadening of what earlier American principle?

What was behind Theodore Roosevelt's rapid rise to the presidency? What were the main elements of his foreign policies?

Discuss the Roosevelt Corollary and what impact it had on President Roosevelt's foreign policy, especially as it pertained to Latin America.

Which of the following was a result of the Spanish-American War?

What was a reason why the United States intervened in the Cuban War for Independence?

Which of the following occurred when the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone?