Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"White Man's Burden"

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Little Brown Brothers"

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Question 3

The Cuban insurrectos who wanted to overthrow Spanish rule in Cuba

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A)  were heavily dependent on American funding for their rebellion. 
B)  blew up the battleship Maine. 
C)  were Communist in their ideological outlook. 
D)  began assassinating Spanish officials. 
E)  adopted a scorched-earth policy of burning cane fields and sugar mills.

Question 4

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898​
 
-____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-George Washington Goethals

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Question 6

President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because

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A)  the business community favored the conflict. 
B)  American honor and continued respect in the entire world truly demanded it. 
C)  it became clear that there was no other way to obtain Cuban independence. 
D)  the Teller Amendment guaranteed that the United States would not establish colonial control of Cuba. 
E)  the American public and many leading Republicans demanded it.

Question 7

Historians have argued that race and gender were important in Roosevelt's and other's justifications for imperialism because these imperialists

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A)  claimed American society had lost touch with manly virtues. 
B)  saw the nation as becoming soft and feminine since the frontier closed. 
C)  perceived other nations as at the bottom of a strict racial hierarchy. 
D)  regarded blacks as primitive and Anglo-Saxons as civilized. 
E)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 8

What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?

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Question 9

​The nations that signed U.S. Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door note concerning Chinese rights and fair competition were

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A)  ​China. 
B)  ​Russia. 
C)  ​Germany. 
D)  ​Japan. 
E)  ​the United States.

Question 10

Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt. Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership. In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?

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Question 11

​Which of the following represented effects of the Russo-Japanese War on the United States?

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A)  ​A new wave of Japanese immigrants began pouring into the spacious valleys of California. 
B)  ​White Californians began assailing the onset of new "yellow peril" represented by new Japanese immigrants to the state. 
C)  ​A major diplomatic row developed between the United States and Japan over the San Francisco school board ordering the segregation of Japanese students in a special school to free more space for whites. 
D)  ​A secret diplomatic agreement in 1907-1908 between the United States and Japan that stopped the flow of laborers to the U.S. mainland. 
E)  ​A brief hostile naval encounter in 1907 between America's Great White Fleet and the Japanese navy in Tokyo Bay that nearly erupted into a shooting war between the two nations.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Panama Canal

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Question 13

The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated

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A)  the hostile reaction to American expansionism. 
B)  that American diplomacy was reckless and incompetent. 
C)  how weak America seemed to the rest of the world. 
D)  the failure of the Monroe Doctrine. 
E)  the aggressive new national mood.

Question 14

Along with serving as the last reigning queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani is also remembered for

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A)  helping to build tourism to Hawaii. 
B)  writing songs such as "Aloha Oe." 
C)  establishing the pineapple business on the island. 
D)  her lavish personal expenditures, particularly for clothes. 
E)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 15

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

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A)  free trade was essential to a nation's economic health. 
B)  control of the sea was the key to world domination. 
C)  the United States should continue its policy of isolationism. 
D)  the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 
E)  the construction of a large navy was not necessary for a nation to achieve world domination.

Question 16

Teddy Roosevelt received the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1900 mainly because

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A)  his progressivism balanced McKinley's conservatism. 
B)  New York party bosses wanted him out of the New York governorship. 
C)  his presence on the ticket would appeal to western voters. 
D)  the New York party bosses wanted to groom Roosevelt for the presidency. 
E)  his personal warmth balanced McKinley's aloofness.

Question 17

American involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations, at the turn of the century, usually stemmed from

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A)  the need to defend these nations against German or British economic influence and interference with American plans. 
B)  the American desire to expand the colonial holdings and expand U.S. economic influence in Latin America. 
C)  the fact that they were chronically in debt. 
D)  the desire to control the flow of Latin American immigrants into the United States. 
E)  a desire to strengthen Latin American democracy.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

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Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Dupuy de Lóme

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Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Big Sister policy

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Exam 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"White Man's Burden"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Little Brown Brothers"

The Cuban insurrectos who wanted to overthrow Spanish rule in Cuba

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898 -____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George Washington Goethals

President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because

Historians have argued that race and gender were important in Roosevelt's and other's justifications for imperialism because these imperialists

What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?

The nations that signed U.S. Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door note concerning Chinese rights and fair competition were

Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt. Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership. In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?

Which of the following represented effects of the Russo-Japanese War on the United States?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Panama Canal

The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated

Along with serving as the last reigning queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani is also remembered for

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

Teddy Roosevelt received the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1900 mainly because

American involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations, at the turn of the century, usually stemmed from

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dupuy de Lóme

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Big Sister policy

Exam 6: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"White Man's Burden"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Little Brown Brothers"

The Cuban insurrectos who wanted to overthrow Spanish rule in Cuba

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898​ -____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George Washington Goethals

President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because

Historians have argued that race and gender were important in Roosevelt's and other's justifications for imperialism because these imperialists

What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?

​The nations that signed U.S. Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door note concerning Chinese rights and fair competition were

Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt. Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership. In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?

​Which of the following represented effects of the Russo-Japanese War on the United States?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Panama Canal

The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated

Along with serving as the last reigning queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani is also remembered for

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

Teddy Roosevelt received the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1900 mainly because

American involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations, at the turn of the century, usually stemmed from

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dupuy de Lóme

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Big Sister policy

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Japan on the Eve of the Spanish-American War, c. 1898 -____ Three territorial acquisitions made by the United States in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

The nations that signed U.S. Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door note concerning Chinese rights and fair competition were

Which of the following represented effects of the Russo-Japanese War on the United States?