Imperialism

Question 1

Isolationism

Answer 1

A country that wants to stay out of world affairs.

Question 2

Expansionism

Answer 2

Policy of extending a nations boundaries.

Question 3

Interests

Answer 3

Money, land, coal, oil, resources.

Question 4

America conducted foreign trade to where?

Answer 4

Europe Nd Asian countries such as China.

Question 5

Who did Japanese rulers fear, and so what did they do?

Answer 5

Outsiders and so they cut themselves off to the rest of the world in the 1600s.

Question 6

What happened to shipwrecked sailors who were wrecked on shores off thresholds of Japan ?

Answer 6

We’re to allowed to leave.

Question 7

What did Americans want Japan to open?

Answer 7

It’s ports for trade.

Question 8

What did President Milliard Fillmore do in 1853-54?

Answer 8

Sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan to ask Japan to open trade relations with the U.S.

Question 9

Gunboat Diplomacy

Answer 9

Using military forces to frighten foreigners into signing agreements.

Question 10

Treaty of Kanagawa

Answer 10

Japan accepts to help shipwrecked sailors. It opened up two ports to American trade. Japan begins to become an industrial nation.

Question 11

Imperialism

Answer 11

The policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries.

Question 12

Reasons for Imperialism

Answer 12

Industrialized nations needed raw materials and new markets. Racism and competition.

Question 13

Racism

Answer 13

Belief that one race is superior to another.

Question 14

What did many Europeans feel that they had the duty to do?

Answer 14

Spread their religion and culture to people who were less civilized.

Question 15

Competition

Answer 15

European countries took over areas and closed their markets to other countries.

Question 16

What did many feel would happen if the U.S. didn’t gain foreign markets?

Answer 16

Economy would collapse.

Question 17

Who was Alfred T. Mahan and what did he write?

Answer 17

Naval captain. Wrote *the influence of sea power upon history.

Question 18

What was Alfred’s book about?

Answer 18

Argued that the prosperity of America depended on trade and a bigger Navy was needed to protect merchant ships. The need to expand the U.S. Navy and to acquire Naval bases throughout the world.

Question 19

Hawaii

Answer 19

Rich in soil, warm climate, and plentiful rainfall, allows farmers to grow crops all year round.

Question 20

What were American missionaries eager to do?

Answer 20

Convert Hawaiians to Christianity.

Question 21

What did Americans set up in Hawaii?

Answer 21

Large sugar plantations.

Question 22

As what grew so did what?

Answer 22

As sugar plantations grew, so did the power of American planters.

Question 23

What did American planters do to Queen Liliuokalani?

Answer 23

Rebelled against her.

Question 24

Who was sent to protect American lives in Hawaii?

Answer 24

U.S. Marines.

Question 25

What does the Queen do and then what happens?

Answer 25

Se gives up her throne and then Hawaii was annexed in 1898.

Question 26

Who was the Secretary of State?

Answer 26

William Seward

Question 27

What did the Secretary of State want the U.S. to do?

Answer 27

Dominate trade in the Pacific.

Question 28

Annex

Answer 28

Add on or take over.

Question 29

What did Seward persuade Congress to do?

Answer 29

Annex Midway Island.

Question 30

What does Seward help to do?

Answer 30

Buy Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

Question 31

What was "Seward's Folly"?

Answer 31

Many Americans thought of Alaska as a barren land of icy mountains and frozen fish.

Question 32

What was Alaska rich in?

Answer 32

Gold, timber, copper, petroleum, natural gas, and the lowlands were suited for farming.

Question 33

Sphere of Influence

Answer 33

An area, usually around a seaport where a nation had special trading privileges.

Question 34

Where did Japan carve spheres of influence?

Answer 34

China

Question 35

What was the U.S. eager to gain?

Answer 35

A share of the China trade.

Question 36

Open Door Policy

Answer 36

Policy issued by Secretary of State John Hay that allowed a nation's sphere of influence in China.

Question 37

What did many Chinese resist?

Answer 37

Foreign influence so some formed secret society called the Righteous Fists of Harmony, or Boxers.

Question 38

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 38

1900 the boxers attacked westerners foreign governments organized an international army to put down the uprising.

Question 39

Causes of the Spanish American War

Answer 39

Spanish atrocities, wartime acts of cruelty and brutality.

Question 40

What did Americans invest in Cuban stuff?

Answer 40

$50 million in sugar and rice plantations, railroads, tobacco, and iron mines.

Question 41

What was American trade with Cuba worth?

Answer 41

$100 million a year.

Question 42

Sinking of the u.s.s Maine

Answer 42

Feb 15, 1898, the u.s.s Maine explodes killing 260 sailors accident

Question 43

Yellow journalism

Answer 43

Reporting style that relies on sensational stories and headlines.

Question 44

Spanish American War

Answer 44

Lasted only 4 months war took place in the Carribean and the Philippine islands.

Question 45

War in Cuba Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 45

African Americans of the 9th and 10th Cavalries.

Question 46

War in Cuba Rough Riders

Answer 46

Volunteer Cavalry Regiment led by Thoedore Roosevelt.

Question 47

War in the Philippines

Answer 47

Commodore Dewey sailed his fleet into Manila harbor and destroyed the Spanish fleet.

Question 48

Platt Amendment

Answer 48

Allowed the us to intervene in Cuba and gave the us control of the naval base Guantanamo Bay.

Question 49

Protectorate

Answer 49

A nation whose independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country.

Question 50

Who becomes an American protectorate?

Answer 50

Cuba

Question 51

Foraker Act

Answer 51

Gave Puerto Rico a limited say in their own affairs. Us sets up a new government.

Question 52

Isthmus

Answer 52

A narrow strip of land connecting two large bodies of land.

Question 53

Theodore Roosevelt was determined to do what when he became president?

Answer 53

Build a canal through the isthmus of Panama.

Question 54

Canal benefits:

Answer 54

Shorter journey, reduce the cost of shipping, the Navy could move ships quicker.

Question 55

What did Secretary of State John Hay offer Colombia to rent a strip of land across Panama?

Answer 55

$10 million cash, plus $250,000 a year.

Question 56

Does Colombia accept the deal?

Answer 56

No, they refuse.

Question 57

What did Panamanians want to do?

Answer 57

Break away rom Colombia.

Question 58

What did Roosevelt let be know?

Answer 58

That if the Panamanians revolted he would help to support the rebellion.

Question 59

Where did us warship Nashville drop anchor?

Answer 59

Port of Colon, Panama.

Question 60

What happened when Panamanians rebelled?

Answer 60

American forces stopped Colombian troops from crushing the revolt.

Question 61

What did us recognized Panama as and what did Panama do in return?

Answer 61

An independent nation, Panama let the us build a canal.

Question 62

Secretary of state William C Seward's desire to dominate trade in the Pacific resulted in the annexation of Midway Island and?

Answer 62

The purchase of Alaska from Russia.

Question 63

What was the goal of the righteous fists of harmony or the boxers?

Answer 63

Resist foreign influence.

Question 64

What American action prompted the Japanese Emperor to sign the treaty of Kanagawa?

Answer 64

An American show of force using steam powered warships.

Question 65

Which of the following is not a reason for imperialism?

Answer 65

Gunboat diplomacy.

Question 66

What discovery in the 1890s changed American's minds about Seward's folly?

Answer 66

Prospectors found gold, loggers found rich stands of timber, and drillers found deposits of petroleum and natural gas.

Question 67

Corollary

Answer 67

Addition to

Question 68

Dollar diplomacy

Answer 68

Building strong economic ties to Latin America.

Question 69

Moral diplomacy

Answer 69

Condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace.