T.R.BigStickDiplomacyNavy

Question In the late 1800’s, European and American businesses were looking overseas for places to sell their products because?

Answer 1 – 10 Tariffs had reduced trade among industrialized countries, and they were producing more than their own people could buy.

Question U.S. President Millard Fillmore sent a naval expedition (led by Commodore Mathew Perry) to Japan to?

Answer 1 – 20 Force Japan to trade with the United States

Question In the late 1800’s, support grew in the U.S. for building a large modern navy to?

Answer 1 – 30 Protect American trade interests

Question The United States was economically interested in Hawaii and Cuba because of?

Answer 1 – 40 Their valuable sugar plantations

Question The Treaty of Paris in 1898, which formally ended the Spanish-American War, granted independence to?

Answer 1 – 50 Cuba

Question What is the status of the Philippines today?

Answer 2 – 10 An independent country

Question Theodore Roosevelt was chosen as McKinley’s running mate in the 1900 election because of his?

Answer 2 – 20 Status as a war hero and to keep him under control

Question The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by?

Answer 2 – 30 A group of planters supported by United States Marines

Question American support for Cuban rebels was fueled by?

Answer 2 – 40 Yellow journalism stories published by Pulitzer and Hearst

Question In 1898 President McKinley sent the battleship Maine to Havana, Cuba to?

Answer 2 – 50 Evacuate Americans if necessary

Question Supporters of annexing the Philippines believed that?

Answer 3 – 10 The islands would provide the United States with a base for trade in Asia

Question The Platt Amendment effectively made Cuba into an American?

Answer 3 – 20 Protectorate

Question Theodore Roosevelt became president after what event?

Answer 3 – 30 When McKinley was assassinated

Question The purpose of the open door policy was to?

Answer 3 – 40 Ensure that all industrialized countries could trade with China

Question According to the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War, the United States would acquire/takeover which two island nations?

Answer 3 – 50 Puerto Rico and the Philippines

Question What is the economic and political domination of a strong nation over the weaker nations?

Answer 4 – 10 Imperialism

Question American settlers in Hawaii quickly discovered that the climate and soil of the islands were suitable for growing what?

Answer 4 – 20 Sugar cane

Question In 1903, the United States tried to negotiate with _____ for the right to build a canal through its province of Panama. When they refused, a revolution was staged.

Answer 4 – 30 Colombia

Question The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of the ?

Answer 4 – 40 Monroe Doctrine

Question This foreign policy approach believed that if American business leaders supported Latin American development, everyone would benefit.

Answer 4 – 50 Dollar diplomacy

Question In August 1898, the United States and their Filipino allies forced Spain into a cease-fire and peace negotiations. What happened to American and Filipino relations after that?

Answer 5 – 10

Question How would it be “bad for business” if the United States turned the Philippines over to France or Germany?

Answer 5 – 20

Question What were the three main factors that were fueling/encouraging U.S. imperialist policy in the 1880’s.

Answer 5 – 30

Question Name and describe two of the four main reasons why the U.S. chose to get involved in Cuba and the Spanish American War.

Answer 5 – 40

Question What effect did the Platt Amendment to the Cuban Constitution have on Cuban Independence?

Answer 5 – 50 It ensured that Cuba would be tied to the United States so that we could still control/influence events there.