Spanish American War - Part 2

Question 1

Between 1895 and 1900 US exports to where quadrupled?

Answer 1

China

Question 2

In 1894, war erupted between what two countries over Korea ( Which was a client state dependent on one of these countries)?

Answer 2

China and Japan

Question 3

In what treaty did China recognize Korea’s independence and give Japan territory in Manchuria?

Answer 3

The Peace Treaty

Question 4

In 1898, what country demanded that China lease Manchuria to them instead?

Answer 4

Russia

Question 5

Soon after Germany, France, and Britain also demanded what in China?

Answer 5

Leaseholds

Question 6

Each what became the center of each country’s sphere of influence?

Answer 6

Leasehold

Question 7

What is a section of a country where a foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers?

Answer 7

Sphere of influence

Question 8

McKinley and S.O.S. John Hay supported what in China?

Answer 8

Open Door Policy

Question 9

The policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nation’s sphere of influence was?

Answer 9

Open Door Policy

Question 10

Who were known to the Westerners as “Boxers”?

Answer 10

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Question 11

In 1900, this group decided to destroy the “foreign devils” and their Chinese Christian converts, whom they believed were corrupting Chinese society. What was the group?

Answer 11

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Question 12

The “Boxers” and some Chinese troops attacked foreign embassies in Peking (Now Beijing) killing more than 200 foreigners in what came to be called the?

Answer 12

Boxer Rebellion

Question 13

Who was reelected in 1900, but their second term was cut short by an assassin’s bullet?

Answer 13

McKinley

Question 14

After McKinley’s death in September 1901, what vice president assumed the presidency?

Answer 14

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 15

Who believed that the US had a duty to shape the “less civilized” corners of the earth and displaying US power to the world to deter nations from fighting?

Answer 15

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 16

Who said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”?

Answer 16

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 17

The “Big stick” policy was used in the acquisition and construction of what?

Answer 17

The Panama Canal

Question 18

In 1889, a company from what country abandoned its efforts to build a canal in Panama?

Answer 18

France

Question 19

In 1902, who authorized US purchase of the French company’s assets and the construction of the canal?

Answer 19

Congress

Question 20

Panama was a province of what country at the time of the construction of the canal?

Answer 20

Columbia

Question 21

Tensions would increase between what two peoples because of the province’s rule during the canal construction?

Answer 21

Panamanians and Columbians

Question 22

During the construction of the Panama Canal, what two diseases, transmitted by mosquitoes, sickened workers and slowed their progress?

Answer 22

Malaria and Yellow Fever

Question 23

By inspecting and controlling all potential breeding places of mosquitoes, who helped maintain a Canal Zone in which mosquitoes could not live?

Answer 23

Surgeon General of the US Army, William Crawford Gorgas

Question 24

In 1902, after what country defaulted its debts, Britain, Germany, and Italy blockaded its ports.

Answer 24

Venezuela

Question 25

Roosevelt would give a speech to Congress in which he stated what came to be known as the what?

Answer 25

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 26

What states that the US would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 26

The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 27

The goal of the what was to prevent European powers from using the debt problems of Latin America to justify intervening in the region?

Answer 27

The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 28

The US would first apply the Roosevelt Corollary to which country?

Answer 28

The Dominican Republic

Question 29

A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad ( An idea by Taft), is known as?

Answer 29

Dollar diplomacy

Question 30

The what submitted by Senator Orville Platt, specified 4 conditions to the Cuban constitution?

Answer 30

Platt Amendment

Question 31

Who helped build public support for the idea that nations needed large fleets of ships to trade with the world?

Answer 31

US naval officer Captain Alfred T. Mahan

Question 32

In 1853, warships under Perry’s command entered where?

Answer 32

Edo Bay (Present day Tokyo Bay)

Question 33

Who (S.O.S.) advocated Pan- Americanism?

Answer 33

James G. Blaine

Question 34

Older name for the present day Organization of American States (OAS)?

Answer 34

Commercial Bureau of the American Republics

Question 35

Who declared the US neutral?

Answer 35

President Grover Cleveland

Question 36

Spain would remove what General from office and offered Cubans autonomy only if they remained part of the Spanish Empire?

Answer 36

Valeriano Weyler

Question 37

Spain had to agree to the US annexation of what two countries?

Answer 37

Guam and Puerto Rico