Exam 19: From Crisis to Empire

The United States was forced to rely on the regular army and a military draft in fighting the Spanish-American War.

By the end of Benjamin Harrison's administration,public sentiment in America was rising to curb the power of ________.

A Chinese revolt against foreigners,the ________,led the United States to join an international expeditionary force to put it down.

The Platt Amendment left the Philippines only nominally independent,politically.

Bigotry was the dominant force behind the Populist movement.

The leader of Hawaii who was forced to yield authority to the American government upon annexation was

William Jennings Bryan was nominated for president in the 1896 election by the

A letter critical of ________,written by Spain's minister Dupuy de Lôme,sparked a controversy in the United States in 1898.

The "Open Door notes"

Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898,Hawaii

In the 1888 election,the position of primary importance to the Republican Party was

The fact that black Cuban soldiers fought alongside whites as equals gave black American soldiers a stronger sense of the injustices they faced.

The Foraker Act of 1900

Who had the stronger arguments,critics or supporters of imperialism,and why?

No occupational group watched the performance of the federal government in the 1880s with more dismay than American ________.

What drew the anger of disgruntled farmers in the late nineteenth century,and why?

Congress established the ________ to regulate railroad rates.

Throughout the late nineteenth century,the federal government

The economic collapse triggered by the Panic of 1893 was the worst to that point in American history.

The two-party system of the late nineteenth century was remarkably stable.