Cuba & the Platt Amendment
This crop was nearly destroyed in Cuba's 1895 rebellion. Later, US companies like Hershey's came to dominate it.
A: Sugar
This president liked the proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
A: Theodore Roosevelt
Before its 1903 revolt, Panama was part of this country.
A: Colombia
This US policy asked foreign powers to respect each other's trading rights in China.
A: The Open Door policy
Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end this 1904–1905 war.
A: The Russo-Japanese War
This was Taft's policy of spreading US influence abroad through financial investment.
A: Dollar diplomacy
The chapter says US policy in Cuba became the model for later US imperialism. In one sentence, explain what that model was. Why did the US prefer it to outright annexation?
A: The US acted as a "benign friend" that guided and financed friendly local governments while it controlled the economy. This let the US gain power and profit without the cost and responsibility of governing a colony.
Under General Leonard Wood's occupation, the US got rid of this disease in Cuba. It had killed many US troops.
A: Yellow fever
This 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine claimed an "international police power" for the US in the Western Hemisphere.
A: The Roosevelt Corollary
he Panama Canal was finished in August of this year, when the SS Ancon passed through it.
A: 1914
This Secretary of State sent the first Open Door note in 1899.
A: John Hay
This was the nickname for the 16 battleships Roosevelt sent around the world on a goodwill trip in 1907.
A: The Great White Fleet
This was Wilson's policy, based on the belief that the US was morally superior and that contact with it could only help other nations.
A: Moral diplomacy
This 1901 measure let the US intervene in Cuba whenever it chose and gave the US a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
A: The Platt Amendment
This country defaulted on its debts in 1903. The US then took over its customs service and put 55 percent of the duties toward repaying the debt.
A: The Dominican Republic
The US also considered building the canal through this Central American country instead of Panama.
A: Nicaragua
This 1900 uprising against foreigners in China was led by the "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists."
A: The Boxer Rebellion
In this informal 1907 deal, Japan agreed to limit emigration to the US, and San Francisco reversed its school segregation of Japanese students.
A: The Gentlemen's Agreement
Secretary of State Philander Knox arranged for US bankers to control Nicaragua's National Bank and own this percentage of its railroads.
A: 51 percent
By 1905, US interests owned more than this percentage of Cuban land, while Cubans owned only 25 percent.
A: More than 60 percent
Puerto Ricans finally got US citizenship under this 1917 law.
A: The Jones Act
Under its moral diplomacy, the Wilson administration paid Colombia this amount in reparations for the US role in Panama's revolt.
A: $25 million
The second Open Door note in 1900 went further than the first by calling for equal trade in this area.
A: All parts of China, not just the foreign spheres of influence
This future president led the commission that governed the Philippines and said, "We are doing God's work here."
A: William Howard Taft
This was Wilson's Secretary of State, who shared his belief in moral diplomacy.
A: William Jennings Bryan
The Platt Amendment was named after Senator Orville Platt, but this Secretary of War actually wrote it.
A: Elihu Root
In 1902, Britain and Germany blockaded this country's ports after its dictator, Cipriano Castro, refused to pay its debts. The US persuaded them to accept arbitration.
A: Venezuela
This volcano erupted on Martinique in 1902 and killed 30,000 people, which turned US attention away from the Nicaragua route.
A: Mount Pelée
President McKinley set a precedent by sending 6,300 US troops to China without getting this.
A: Approval from Congress
At this 1906 conference in Spain about Morocco, Roosevelt claimed the US was neutral but privately backed Britain and France against Germany.
A: The Algeciras Conference
This pro-US leader was put in power in Nicaragua and had once been an accountant for a US mining company. In 1912, 3,000 US troops invaded to keep him in office.
A: Adolfo Díaz
From 1917 to 1922, US forces propped up this unpopular Cuban president, who was also managing director of the Cuban-American Sugar Company.
A: Mario García Menocal
This Nicaraguan poet wrote "To Roosevelt" in 1904, warning, "You are the future invader."
A: Rubén Darío
In this 1901 treaty, Britain gave up its rights to a future canal under the Clayton-Bulwer agreement.
A: The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Historian George Herring calls it a myth that the Open Door saved China. Name one piece of evidence that the US didn't really put China's well-being first.
A: Any one of these: the US didn't consult China; it kept its $25 million share of the Boxer indemnity; it didn't challenge existing unfair treaties; it didn't stop more foreign troops from entering China.
Roosevelt used this term for rivalries between great powers that cancel out each other's ability to expand.
A: "Balanced antagonisms"
In 1909, Taft sent Marines to overthrow this nationalist Nicaraguan president, who had cancelled privileges for US mining companies.
A: José Santos Zelaya