A narrow strip of land joining two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
100
He was convinced that buying Alaska would benefit the United States.
Who is William Seward?
100
True or False. Russia refused to sell Alaska to the United States Secretary of State William Seward.
What is false?
100
Caused the explosion on the battleship MAINE.
No one knows how it happened?
100
More than _______ workers died in the digging from tradegies like mudslides and cave-ins or diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
What is 6000?
200
This is a policy of building empires by imposing political and economic control over people around the world.
What is imperialism?
200
President sent him to present Japan with a letter allowing countries to trade with them.
Who is Matthew Perry?
200
The three countries that were after Samoa.
What are Germany, Britain, and the United States?
200
Cuba had been under Spanish rule since ______.
What is 1492 (since Columbus discovered it)?
200
True or False: Roosevelt originally offered Columbia $10,000,000 in cash plus $250,000 yearly in rent to allow the US to build a canal through Panama.
What is true?
300
A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
What is a corollary?
300
This person put forth the thesis or idea that the western frontier had defined American history.
Who Frederick Jackson Turner?
300
The United States Navy wanted Samoa for this reason.
What are set up coaling stations, and military posts?
300
The Rough Riders were lead by this important figure.
Who is Roosevelt?
300
The two reasons why Colombians did not accept the United States offer for Panama.
What are 1. They believed it was worth more money and 2. They did not want the US to have permanent control over the area?
400
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
400
The name of the of the Hawaiian King whose sister was Liliuokalani.
Who is Kalakaua?
400
The US opened trade with Japan by doing this.
What is gave the Japanese a letter from the President calling for Japan to grant trading rights?
400
The controversy between ________ of the New York World had developed a style of reporting known as yellow journalism. This reporters rival _______ of the New York Journal also used this style in their writing.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
400
The problems workers faced building the Panama Canal.
What is cutting through a mountain, building a dam, building giant locks, and disease?
500
This is a policy based on the idea that economic ties were the best way to expand American influence.
What is dollar diplomacy?
500
An English doctor who found that a different kind of mosquito carried malaria.
Who is Ronald Ross?
500
Name of secret society given by the Chinese.
What is the Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
500
The territories that were granted to the U.S. after the Spanish American War.
What is Puerto Rico, the Philippines, islands of Guam and Wake?