During what event did an international army fight against Chinese revolutionaries in their own country?
What is The Boxer Rebellion
100
What is the newspaper reporting style that uses exaggeration and scandal to sell newspapers and influence public opinion?
What is Yellow Journalism
100
What two oceans does the Panama Canal connect?
What is The Atlantic & Pacific Oceans
100
The definition of imperialism:
What is when a nation follows a policy to expand by taking over weaker regions and nations?
100
Give an example of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" Policy.
What is The Building of the Panama Canal
200
Who was the Queen the tried to preserve Hawaiian independence?
What is Queen Liliouokalani
200
List three territories the US gained as a result of the Spanish American War.
What is Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
200
Who was President when the Panama Canal was built?
What is Teddy Roosevelt
200
What are two causes of Imperialism?
What is Gain markets overseas, gain sources of raw materials, spread culture (democracy/religion), gain military bases overseas
200
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to what 1823 document?
What is The Monroe Doctrine
300
What did European nations set up in China where they controlled an area that gave them special trading privileges?
What is Spheres of Influence
300
What island south of the United States was rebelling against Spanish rule in 1895?
What is Cuba
300
The Panama Canal was built after Panama won its independence from what nation?
What is Colombia
300
What group of people revolted against Queen Liliouokalani in Hawaii?
What is American sugar planters
300
Who was sent to Japan to convince its government to open ports to trade with the United States?
What is Matthew Perry
400
What did the United States do to ensure itself trading rights in China?
What is The Open Door Policy
400
What event caused the United States to go to war with Spain?
What is The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
400
What document was added to the Monroe Doctrine to claim that the United States had "police power" in Latin America?
What is Roosevelt Corollary
400
What is the belief that the United States should expand westward?
What is Manifest Destiny
400
What are the names of Mr. D'Ascoli's three son's?
What is Joey, Evan, Casey
500
What was the purchase of Alaska called because so many Americans thought it was a waste of money?
What is "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Ice Box"
500
Who defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines during the Spanish American War?
What is Commodore Dewey
500
What did the United States force Cuba to add to its constitution allowing us to intervene and limiting its right to make treaties and giving us a naval base there?
What is The Platt Amendment
500
What was the name of the group that was agains the United States imperializing other countries?
What is The Anti-Imperial League
500
What is the make and model car Mr. D'Ascoli just purchased?