Motives for Empire
What term describes a nation extending its power over other territories and peoples?
Imperialism
Which territory did the United States acquire from Russia during William Seward’s time as secretary of state?
Alaska
Which Caribbean island’s struggle for independence from Spain helped lead the United States to war?
Cuba
Which islands became the site of a war against American rule from 1899 to 1902?
The Philippines
Which president’s foreign policy is associated with “Speak softly, and carry a big stick”?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which theory did Americans use to justify conquest and racial inequality through ideas about competition and superiority?
Social Darwinism
Which Hawaiian export strengthened economic ties between Hawaii and the United States?
Sugar/Sugar Cane
What sensational newspaper reporting helped build American support for Cuban rebels?
Yellow Journalism
Which organization opposed American annexation of overseas territories?
The American Anti-Imperialist League
Which project did Roosevelt advance by supporting one nation's independence from Colombia?
The Panama Canal
Which naval thinker wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History?
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Which president supported acquiring Hawaii using Manifest Destiny as a justification?
William McKinley?
The destruction of which American battleship in Havana Harbor intensified demands for war?
The USS Maine
Which 1901 Supreme Court case distinguished between incorporated and unincorporated territories?
Downes v. Bidwell
What policy encouraged American banks and businesses to invest abroad under President Taft?
Dollar Diplomacy
Supporters of annexing the Philippines argued that the islands would provide access to commerce on which continent?
Asia
What policy did John Hay propose in 1899 to preserve equal trading access to China?
Open Door policy?
Which American naval commander won the Battle of Manila Bay?
George Dewey
Which 1900 law established civilian government in Puerto Rico?
The Foraker Act
Which addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin American nations?
The Roosevelt Corollary
What contradiction did anti-imperialists identify between American founding ideals and overseas colonial rule?
Denying other peoples the self-government and liberty Americans claimed for themselves?
What agreement addressed tensions with Japan by reversing San Francisco school segregation in exchange for restrictions on Japanese labor migration?
The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907
Which document ended the Spanish-American War and transferred Spain’s control of the Philippines to the United States?
The Treaty of Paris of 1898
Which 1917 law granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans?
The Jones Act
Which general did Wilson send into Mexico in 1916 to capture Pancho Villa?
John J. Pershing