Question 1

Assess the validity of the following statement: "America did not start the [Spanish-American War] with imperialistic motives, but [because of the war], it wound up with imperial and colonial fruits in its grasp." Is it fair to say that America acquired these territories in "a fit of absent-mindedness"?

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Question 2

Assess the validity of the following statement, "China owed its preservation far more to the strength of the competing powers than to Hay's Open Door policy." Does this mean that the Open Door policy was meaningless? Why or why not?

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The statement that "China owed its prese...

Question 3

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

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A)   business community favored the conflict.
B)   Spanish government had refused to negotiate.
C)   justice of obtaining Cuban independence was clear.
D)   United States hoped to acquire a naval base at Guantanamo.
E)   American people demanded it.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 4

America's initial Open Door policy was essentially an argument to promote

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A)   free trade in China.
B)   equal spheres of influence in China.
C)   military protection for the Chinese emperor.
D)   exclusive trade concessions for the United States in Shanghai.
E)   the principle of self-determination.F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

Imperialist advocates like Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge argued that America should acquire colonies because

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A)   they would be places where America's surplus population could settle.
B)   in the Darwinian struggle for power, only the strongest and "fittest" nations would survive.
C)   they would provide strategic defense for the U.S.coasts.
D)   America's founding values were based on expansion and domination.
E)   America's superior culture should be spread around the world.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

Evaluate the fundamental causes of the burst of American imperialism in the late 1890s? Which of the many factors was most important, and why?

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Question 7

Later investigations showed that the battleship Maine was sunk by

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A)   the Spanish.
B)   an explosion on the ship.
C)   Cuban rebels.
D)   reporters working for William Randolph Hearst.
E)   a mine planted by Cuban-Americans from Florida.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

To what extent did the Boxer Rebellion, the Open Door policy, and the Portsmouth Conference signal a new American role in East Asia.What do these events reveal about the nature of America's engagement in that part of the world?

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Question 9

Assess the validity of the following statement, "the United States had to join the imperialistic scramble of the age or be permanently left behind as a great power."

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Question 10

Given America's strong anticolonial and democratic history, how were a majority of Americans able to justify acquiring colonial possessions? How strong were imperialists' arguments, and why did they arouse such strong opposition from other Americans?

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The majority of Americans were able to j...

Question 11

The United States gained a perpetual lease on the Panama Canal Zone in the

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A)   Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty.
B)   Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
C)   Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
D)   Gentlemen's Agreement.
E)   Teller Amendment.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 12

On the question of whether the Constitution and American laws applied to the territory acquired in the Spanish-American War, the Supreme Court decided that

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A)   those under American rule did not enjoy full constitutional and legal rights.
B)   Congress could extend the Bill of Rights to the colonial subjects if it chose.
C)   the Constitution applied but federal laws did not.
D)   no tariffs could be established against Hawaiian or Puerto Rican products.
E)   the people of all the territories must eventually be granted citizenship.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

Starting in 1917, many Puerto Ricans came to the mainland United States seeking

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A)   independence.
B)   freedom from political persecution.
C)   to learn English.
D)   citizenship.
E)   employment.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

In response to the Boxer Rebellion, the United States

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A)   refused to accept any indemnity for the losses that it incurred while putting down this uprising.
B)   sent more American missionaries to China.
C)   sent money but no troops to help a multinational contingent to crush the uprising.
D)   became an East Asian power.
E)   abandoned its general principles of nonentanglement and noninvolvement in overseas conflict.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 15

The American desire to construct a canal across Central America was motivated primarily by

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A)   a desire to improve the defense of the United States.
B)   the Panamanian Revolution.
C)   a desire to expand commercial shipping between the east and west coasts.
D)   a desire to prevent the French or British from doing so.
E)   growing American economic interests in Central America.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 16

U.S.naval captain 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 the United States' world domination.
C)   the United States should develop a "two ocean navy."
D)   an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific was crucial to America's defense.
E)   the U.S.should construct a fleet of steel battleships.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 17

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A)  American declaration of war on Spain, (B)  sinking of the Maine, (C)  passage of the Teller Amendment, (D)  passage of the Platt Amendment.

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A)   A, B, D, C
B)   D, C, B, A
C)   B, A, D, C
D)   B, A, C, D
E)   C, D, A, BF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 18

Was Roosevelt's support for the Panamanian revolt and his building of the canal essentially a product of the same imperialistic impulse at work in the Spanish-American War? Or was it simply a natural and logical step needed to build a militarily and commercially valuable waterway?

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Question 19

It has been argued that "the error in Roosevelt's Panama policy lay not in the goals he sought but in the means he chose to achieve them." Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Question 20

The battleship Maine was sent to Cuba to

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A)   provoke a war with Spain.
B)   protect and evacuate American citizens.
C)   show U.S.support for the Cuban revolution against Spain.
D)   gain U.S.control of Havana harbor.
E)   demonstrate the power of the new U.S.steel navy.F) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Starting in 1917, many Puerto Ricans came to the mainland United States seeking

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Assess the validity of the following statement, "China owed its preservation far more to the strength of the competing powers than to Hay's Open Door policy." Does this mean that the Open Door policy was meaningless? Why or why not?

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