Empire and Expansion

Question 1

What caused changes in America’s attitude?

Answer 1

• Economic expansion
• Competition with other powers
• Yellow Journalism (Politzer&Hearst)
• White Angle Saxton Protestant (WASP)- Josiah Strong

Question 2

Who was the American clergyman who preached Anglo-Saxon superiority, called for stronger U.S. missionary efforts overseas, and put his ideas in a book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and its Present Crisis?

Answer 2

Josiah Strong

Question 3

Who was the American naval officer that wrote influential books promoting American overseas expansion by arguing that sea power was the key to world domination and advocating a big navy?

Answer 3

Alfred Mahan

Question 4

What valuable naval base was acquired by the U.S. from the Hawaiian government in 1887?

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor

Question 5

What was the remote Pacific site of a naval clash between the United States and Germany in 1889?

Answer 5

Samoan Island

Question 6

What South American nation nearly came to blows with the U.S. in 1892 over an incident involving the deaths of American sailors?

Answer 6

Chile

Question 7

Why did Grover Cleveland refuse to annex Hawaii? When?

Answer 7

The queen was illegally over thrown. 1893

Question 8

What did this white planter revolt against Queen Liliuokalani set off a debate about?

Answer 8

American Imperialism

Question 9

Who was the native Hawaiian ruler overthrown in a revolution?

Answer 9

Queen Lilioukalani (Queen Lil)

Question 10

who was the belligerent U.S. secretary of state who used the Monroe Doctrine to pressure Britain in the Venezuelan boundary crisis?

Answer 10

Olney

Question 11

What was the final result of the Venezuela-Guiana crisis with Britain? (3) When?

Answer 11

British retreat
Conflict with Germany
Stronger Monroe Doctrine

Question 12

What was the American attitude towards international developments in the 1870s and 1880s?

Answer 12

Indifferent (Isolated)

Question 13

Why did Americans first become concerned with the situation in Cuba?

Answer 13

Americans sympathized with Cuba rebels fighting for freedom

Question 14

Who was the Spanish general whose brutal tactics against Cuban rebels outraged American public opinion?

Answer 14

Butcher Weyler

Question 15

Even bevore the sinking of Maine, what caused American public indignation at spain to be whipped into a frenzy?

Answer 15

Hearst’s sensational Newspaper account (Yellow Journalism)

Question 16

When did the Maine explode?

Answer 16

1898

Question 17

What two groups opposed a war with Spain?

Answer 17

Business people and bankers

Question 18

Even after the Maine exploded, why was the U.S. slow to declare war on Cuba?

Answer 18

President Mckinley reluctant to go to war

Question 19

What amendment to the declaration of war with spain stated that the U.S. would grant Cubans their freedom?

Answer 19

Teller Amendment

Question 20

As soon as the U.S. declared war on Spain, why did Commodore George Dewey sail to the Philippine Islands in 1898, and whose May Day victory opened the doors to American imperialism in Asia?

Answer 20

Theodore Roosevelt-Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Question 21

What group helped American forces in capturing Manila?

Answer 21

Philipino insurgents

Question 22

Who was the leader of the Philipino Insurgents?

Answer 22

Amelio Aguinaldo

Question 23

What enabled America’s unprepared military forces to gain quick and easy victories?

Answer 23

qThe confusion and weakness of Spain’s army and Navy

Question 24

Who was the imperialist advocate, aggressive assistant navy secretary, and famous Rough Rider?

Answer 24

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

Who was the military commander of the Rough Riders, and later organized the efficient American military government of Cuba?

Answer 25

Wood

Question 26

What was the largest cause of American deaths in Cuba?

Answer 26

Bad food, disease, unsanitary conditions

Question 27

Who was the American doctor who led the medical efforts to conquer yellow fever during U.S. occupation of Cuba?

Answer 27

Reede

Question 28

In addition to Cuba what other Spanish- owned Carribean colony was seized?

Answer 28

Puerto Rico

Question 29

On what did president Mckinley base his decision to make the Philippines an American colony?

Answer 29

Combination of religious piety and material economic interests

Question 30

Who was the leading Democratic politician whose intervention narrowly tipped the Senate vote in favor of acquiring the Philippines in 1899.

Answer 30

William Brian

Question 31

What was the margin of approval to annex the Philippines in the Senate?

Answer 31

1

Question 32

Who were two prominent Americans who opposed the annexation of the Philippines?

Answer 32

Twain and William James

Question 33

Why did groups of pro-imperialist Americans argued that the Philippines should be seized?

Answer 33

Economic opportunity; Patriotism

Question 34

What was the Supreme Court decisions in the insular cases regarding American constitutional law and rights in the U.S. colonial possessions of Puerto Rico and the Philippines?

Answer 34

Platt Amendment in 1901

Question 35

What provided the U.S. the right to intervene with troops and maintain military based in Cuba? When?

Answer 35

U.S. constitution did not apply in all territories under the American Flag

Question 36

In what area of the world did the Spanish-American War make the U.S. a full-fledged international power?

Answer 36

East Asia