unit 2

Question 1

Isolationism

Answer 1

Do not get involved in the affairs of other nations

Question 2

Monroe Doctrine -

Answer 2

Basis of US policy, says not to get into affairs across the Atlantic ocean.

Question 3

Washington’s advice

Answer 3

Do not get involved in foreign affairs with other nations

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

• policy of taking colonies for economic interests, raw goods, or new markets.

Question 5

Mad scramble for Africa (Europe Imperialism) -

Answer 5

spanish, French, and Spanish tried to take Africa as their own territories.

Question 6

Seward’s Folly -

Answer 6

Treaty that purchased Alaska from Russia

Question 7

Purchase of Alaska -

Answer 7

The US purchased alaska from Russia for timber, minerals, and oil

Question 8

How we got Hawaii

Answer 8

American Sugar planters overthrow the monarch, the queen surrenders for her people

Question 9

Influence of Sea Power upon History

Answer 9

Alfred Mahan discussed the need for a strong navy and transformed the country into the world’s 3rd largest naval power.

Question 10

Spain in Cuba

Answer 10

Spanish ruled Cuba very harshly, and Cubans wanted their independence

Question 11

Yellow Journalism

Answer 11

• Exaggerated news for sympathy or circulation

Question 12

De Lome Letter

Answer 12

Letter insulting American President, that led to the Spanish - American war

Question 13

USS Maine

Answer 13

American ship sent to monitor spain that exploded and everyone blamed spain

Question 14

US in the Philippines

Answer 14

Us attacks Spanish land, the philippines and helps FIlipino rebels while destroying all spanish ships for raw goods and new markets. Later bought for 20 million

Question 15

Anti - Imperialist League -

Answer 15

believed imperialism went against American ideals of freedom and democracy. (andrew carnegie)

Question 16

White Man’s Burden

Answer 16

A poem urging Americans to take up the burden of an empire as had other imperialist countries.

Question 17

Rough Riders -

Answer 17

Rag - tag group of volunteers in the Spanish-American war led by teddy roosevelt

Question 18

Treaty of Paris 1898 -

Answer 18

• Ended the Spanish American war.

Question 19

Theodore Roosevelt -

Answer 19

Was the governer of NY and later became president after mckinleys assassination. Was very popular among people for leading the rough-riders.

Question 20

Square Deal -

Answer 20

Roosevelt’s domestic policy or The three Cs consumer,conservation, and corporations

Question 21

Speak Softly and carry a big stick -

Answer 21

Roosevelt’s foreign policy which he implies to use negotiation but not forgetting to use his power