NAME THAT PRESIDENT
Hawaii or Bust!
Westward Bound
The White Man's Burden
Money Makes the World Go Round
100

This president said, "speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far". 

Who was President Theodore Roosevelt

100

Who was the last monarch of Hawaii? 

Who was Queen Liliuokalani. 

100

Areas designated for Native American tribes to live on. 

What are reservations. 

100

What motive for imperialism does the poem fall within? 

What is ideology. 

100

What was the Open Door Policy? 

What is a US action to enable all nations to trade equally in the Chinese Markets. 

200

This president is responsible for substituting dollars for bullets in Latin American countries. 

Who is William Howard Taft 

200

This organization was made of American ex-confederates who moved to Hawaii and became sugar planters. 

What is the Hawaii League. 

200

The animal that the Plains tribes relied on for every aspect of life. 

What is the American Bison/Buffalo

200

Name the country where the US used the White Man's Burden as an excuse after the Spanish-American War?  

Where is the Philippines. 

200

Why were Hawaii, Cuba and Puerto Rico so economically appealing to the US? Be specific. 

What are natural resources such as sugar plantations and fruit farms. 

300

This president refused to recognize the government of Mexico because it was hostile to American democracy and ideals. 

Who was Woodrow Wilson 

300

Why did the American planters in Hawaii want the US to annex the island? 

What is because of the tariffs on sugar they were being charged. 

300

The Dawes Act and the Carlisle Indian School both used this method to change Native Americans. 

What is forced assimilation. 

300
Name the law that the United States passed after the Spanish-American War that limited the rights of Cubans. 

What is the Platt Amendment. 

300

What were spheres of influence? 

What are areas in China where certain European nations had exclusive trading rights. 

400

This president said in regard to the Philippines; "That we could not give them back to Spain-that would be cowardly and dishonorable; That we could not turn them over to France or Germany, our commercial rivals -that would be bad business; That we could not leave them to themselves-they were unfit for self-government, and they would soon have anarchy and misrule worse then Spain's was; and That there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by God's grace do the very best we could buy them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died."

Who was William McKinley 

400

What was the uprising of American planters in Hawaii called? 

What is the Bayonet Constitution. 

400

Why were Native Americans kicked off their reservation in the Black Hills prior to the Battle of Little Bighorn? 

What is the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. 

400

How are the White Man's Burden and Manifest Destiny similar? 

What is they both are ideologies that justify American conquest.  

400

Who said; "Whoever controls the railroads of a country, controls the economy." 

Who is President William Howard Taft

500

This president warned the United States about foreign alliances and urged the nation to follow a policy of isolationism. 

Who was George Washington. 

500

Which president is responsible for annexing Hawaii? 

Who is President William McKinley. 

500

Name the act of Congress that allowed any American, male or female, to claim a plot of land in the west. 

What is the Homestead Act. 

500

Who was the Filippino revolutionary hero whose passionate letter to the American people undermined the ideas of the White Man's Burden? 

Who is Emilio Aguinaldo. 

500

What was the economic benefit of the Panama Canal? 

What is a shorter trade route to Asia and control of the shipping route. 

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