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Chapter 22 |
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What is "yellow journalism?" |
it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion |
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As a result of Japan’s show of strength in the Russo-japanese war |
Americans began to doubt the security of the Philippines |
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One reason the United states went to war against Spain was that |
there was strong support among the american people for going to war |
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who was president when the united states acquired the right to build a canal across Panama? |
Theodore roosevelt |
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the treaty ending the spanish-american war |
was initially opposed by most democrats and populists |
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which of the following statements about the american acquisition of Puerto Rico is true? |
the Jones act of 1917 made residents of puerto rico U.S. citizens |
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The de Lome letter |
referred to president McKinley as a weak and cowardly leader |
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To reward Theodore roosevelt for his vigorous campaigning on behalf of William McKinley in 1896, the new president appointed Roosevelt |
assistant secretary of the navy |
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Protestant missionaries and supporting organizations often supported american imperialism because they |
believed in the global superiority of the anglo-saxon "race" |
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why did the united states fight a war in the Philippines after the spanish-american war |
to quell an insurrection of Filipinos who opposed annexation by the US |
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Alfred Thayer Mahan |
argued that sea power was essential to national greatness |
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Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by all of the following except: |
the fear that bolshevik ideas might advance around the globe |
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Roosevelt’s "Gentleman’s agreement" |
stopped the flow of Japanese immigrants to america |
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the Philippine-american war became known for |
its brutality and the atrocities committed by both sides |
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the Platt amendment |
sharply restricted the independence of Cuba’s new government |
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The battleship Maine |
exploded in Havana Harbor and fueled calls for war with Spain |
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As a result of the Spanish-American war, the united states |
emerged as an imperial power |
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The Hay-Herran treaty |
concerned America’s right to build a canal in Panama |
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Why was Theodore Roosevelt picked as William McKinley’s running mate for the 1900 election? |
Roosevelt was a popular figure from his exploits in the spanish-american war and had been a strong public supporter of McKinley |
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The "yellow peril" was |
a racially charged description of a perceived threat from Japan |
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Mark Hanna opposed naming Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley’s running mate in the 1900 election because Hanna |
saw Roosevelt as a madman who just might become president |
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Through his intervention in the Moroccan crisis in 1906, President Roosevelt |
may have prevented a war pitting France and Britain against Germany |
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When americans led an overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s |
President Cleveland preferred that the monarchy be restored to power |
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by the end of the Spanish-american war |
more american soldiers died from disease than battle |
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during the Spanish-american war, Theodore Roosevelt |
took part in the land fighting in Cuba |
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the notion that americans were God’s chosen people was often used to |
justify american imperialism and territorial acquisitions |
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who once said that warfare was the best way to promote "the clear instinct for race selfishness"? |
Roosevelt |
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in 1878, the Samoans signed a treaty with the United states giving the United States |
a naval base at Pago Pago |
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a major reason that the US annexed the Philippians despite anti-imperialist opposition in the US was because |
the islands were located very close to China and China’s potential markets |
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When the United states and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone |
the United states lent support to a separatist rebellion in the Colombian province of Panama |
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Why were american Catholics troubled by Protestant efforts to evangelize in Spain’s former colonies? |
The people of those territories were already christians who belonged to the Catholic church |
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In order to acquire the Canal zone, the United States supported Panama’s revolt against |
Colombia |
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President Grover Cleveland called the Hawaiian islands |
"the stepping-stone to the growing trade of the Pacific" |
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John Fiske |
wrote American Political Ideas, a book that stressed the superior character of Anglo-saxon peoples and institutions |
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In the election of 1900, the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket campaigned on a platform that |
supported American territorial acquisitions following the Spanish-American war |
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Residents of Puerto Rico became citizens of the United States |
nearly two decades after the island was acquired by the US |
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Emilio Aguinaldo |
was the Filipino rebel leader |
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The boxer rebellion took place in |
China |
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In hindsight, Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy was problematic because |
his efforts to deploy American power abroad were accompanied by a racist ideology |
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The Roosevelt Corollary |
stated that the united states could intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries to forestall the intervention of other powers |
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Roosevelt’s intervention in the Russo-Japanese war and the Moroccan dispute |
won him the nobel peace prize of 1906 |
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The teller amendment |
disavowed any american designs on Cuban territory |
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why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909? |
to demonstrate that the US had arrived as a world power |
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Queen Liliuokalani |
opposed the Americanization of Hawaii |
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the open door policy |
proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis |
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