New Frontiers
What is the term for when powerful nations create large empires by exercising economic and political control over weaker regions?
Imperialism
Which two countries started the Russo-Japanese War?
Russia and Japan
For centuries, the people of Cuba lived under whose rule?
Spain
What type of land form in Panama?
Isthmus
What is the term that describes the movement of Americans into the West and the South?
Expansionism
What crop did an American firm introduce in Hawaii in the 1830s?
Sugar cane
Which national group helped Americans capture Manila from the Spanish?
Filipinos
Why did Americans and Europeans want to build a canal through Central America?
From which country did the US purchase Alaska?
Russia
True or False: In 1893, Hawaiian rebels overthrew the Hawaiian queen?
False
True or False: Imperialists believed that the Philippines would give the United States another Pacific naval base and a large market for American goods.
True
The mosquitoes in Panama carried which deadly diseases?
Yellow fever and malaria
Commodore Matthew Perry sought to open trade between the United States and what country?
Japan
In 1906, which order did [Education] officials in San Francisco give?
They ordered Asian students to attend separate schools from white students.
What happened to Puerto Rico as a result of the Jones Act in 1917?
It became a territory of the United States
In 1903, Panama was part of which South American country?
Columbia
Who was responsible for establishing the Pan-American Union?
James G. Blaine
Which Chinese province was the focus of the Russo-Japanese War?
Manchuria
When the Treaty of Paris was signed, which two islands became territories of the United States?
Puerto Rice and Guam
A company from which country tried, but failed, to build a canal across Panama in the 1880s?
France