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Question 1

What illnesses incapacitated hundreds of Spainiards

Answer 1

Malaria, typhoid fever, dysentery, and yellow fever

Question 2

Late in 1898 spanish and American negotiators met where

Answer 2

Paris

Question 3

What remote pacific island did america easily capture in 1898

Answer 3

Guam

Question 4

Which nation did not know a war was happening due to a lack of a cable

Answer 4

Spain

Question 5

Which country did Spain give up to the US to pay for war costs

Answer 5

Puerto Rico

Question 6

Which country from spain was the first territory annexed to the U.S without the express promise of being grated statehood

Answer 6

Puerto Rico

Question 7

Whick island country did Mckinley not want to leave as he felt it would be cowardly

Answer 7

Philippines

Question 8

Who kept a ear close to the ground due to their fear of public perception

Answer 8

William Mckinley

Question 9

Who did anti-imperialists oppose because they were “Unassimilable”

Answer 9

Exotic New peoples

Question 10

Who were eager for new converts from Spanish catholicism

Answer 10

Zealous protestants

Question 11

Who claimed to receive divine gurdance to take all the philippines and civilize and christainize them

Answer 11

Mckinley

Question 12

Which city was captured the day after the armistice was signed

Answer 12

Manila

Question 13

What did the americans pay 20 million to Spain for

Answer 13

The philippine islands

Question 14

What questions did the americans face that confronted them with fundamental questions about their national identity

Answer 14

What to do with the Philippines

Question 15

Who expressed dismay at the treatment of the philippine isles

Answer 15

William James

Question 16

Who could not believe the US would puke up its ancient soul in 5 minutes without a wink of squeamishness

Answer 16

Proffessor William James

Question 17

Who resigned in protest of americas new imperial adventure

Answer 17

Tomas Czar Reed

Question 18

What did proponents of the new imperial adventure argue would happen if the philippines annexed

Answer 18

A history of glorious expanisiveness would continue

Question 19

Which organizations main purpose was to fight annexation in the philippines

Answer 19

Anit-imperialist league

Question 20

Who thirsted for freedom

Answer 20

The fillipinos

Question 21

What group sang a seductive song and appealed to patriotism and invoked americas civilizing mission

Answer 21

Imperialists

Question 22

Who wrote the Poem “Take up the white mans burden Ye dare not stoop to less nor call too loud on freedom to cloak your weariness

Answer 22

Rudyard Kipling

Question 23

Who did the senate approve a treaty with on Feb 6th, 1899, with just one vote to spare

Answer 23

Spain

Question 24

Who tool and investigative trip to the Philippines in 1900 to defind its annexation and said “The Philippines are ours forever”

Answer 24

Senator Albert J. Beveridge

Question 25

Who broke from the Republican party and denounced the annexation of the Philippines in 1902

Answer 25

Senator George F. Hoar

Question 26

What act accorded the Puerto Ricans a Limited form of popular government

Answer 26

The Foraker Act of 1900

Question 27

Which US warships steamed into puerto rico's Guanica Harbor

Answer 27

Gloucester

Question 28

What did the US invasion of a Caribbean island eventually lead to

Answer 28

More US immigrants

Question 29

What caused the Spainiards to crush a Indian revolution and Import African slaves

Answer 29

Taino Indians revolted against against spain

Question 30

What country only had local autonomy for a year before getting captured by america

Answer 30

Puerto Rico

Question 31

What caused a population surge in Puerto Rico after the US takeover

Answer 31

Improved health and sanitation

Question 32

What caused unemployment rates to skyrocket in puerto rico

Answer 32

No industry to provide wage labor

Question 33

What caused Puerto Ricans to move to America start working cotton fields, factories, and mines

Answer 33

Congress granting Puerto Ricans US citizenship

Question 34

Where did a lot of filipino immigrants settle

Answer 34

Newyork City

Question 35

What made imigration slow down for Puerto Ricans

Answer 35

The great depression

Question 36

Why did travel become so easy for puerto ricans after WWII

Answer 36

Plane tickets got cheap

Question 37

What broadway musical was based on the struggles of Puerto Rican immigrants in the US

Answer 37

West side story

Question 38

Who sometimes campaigned in New York for the thousands of voters who were expected to return to the island for the election

Answer 38

Puerto Rico's supranational candidates

Question 39

Who was excluded from the peace negotiations between the US and Spain

Answer 39

The Phililippines

Question 40

What was it called when US soldiers would force water down victims throats until they died or gave information

Answer 40

Water cure

Question 41

What were a series of opinons by the Supreme Court of the US in 1901 about the status of US territories acquired in the Spanish-American War

Answer 41

Insular Cases

Question 42

What Dr. performed amazing experiments on American soldiers who volunteered as Guinea Pigs and proved that the stregomyia mosquito was a lethal carrier fo yellow fever

Answer 42

Dr. Walter Reed

Question 43

What amendment outlined the role of the US in cuba and the Caribbean, limiting Cubas right to make treaties with other nations and restricting Cuba in the conduct of a foreign policy and commerical relations

Answer 43

Platt Amendment