Test Review Ch. 27-30
1. in his book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, the Reverend Josiah Strong advocated American expansion to
2. Which of the following was not among the small but dangerous international crises the United States experienced in the 1890s?
3. A major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century was the
4. The clash between Germany and America over the Samoan islands eventually resulted in
5. Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
6. The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated
7. To justify American intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Britain, Secretary of State Olney invoked the
8. during the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain, the United States
9. A primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration was
10. The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in
11. One reason that the white American sugar lords tried to overthrow native Hawaiian rule and annex the islands to the United States was they
12. Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced from power in 1893 because
13. Which of the following prominent American leaders was least enthusiastic about U.S. imperialistic adventures in the 1890s?
14. Before a treaty annexing Hawaii to the United States could be rushed through the U.S. Senate in 1893
15. President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii because
17. Along with serving as the last reigning queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani is also remembered for
18. The Cuban insurrectos who wanted to overthrow Spanish rule in Cu
19. The actual purpose of the battleship Maine's visit to Cuba was to
20. The battleship Maine was sunk by
21. President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because
22. The United States declared war on Spain even though the Spanish had already agreed to
23. The Teller Amendment was
24. the most successful American military action during the Spanish-American War was largely due to
25. On the whole, the United States Army's performance in Cuba was
26. The Philippine nationalist who led the insurrection against both Spanish rule and the later United States occupation was
27. The Rough Riders, organized principally by Teddy Roosevelt,
28. Member of the Rough Riders consisted of
29. The end of the Cuban War came after the last substantial Spanish fleet was destroyed at the Battle of
30. When the United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War
31. The greatest loss of life for American fighting men during the Spanish-American War resulted from
32. At the time, the greatest controversy emerging from the Spanish-American War was over
33. President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippines primarily by emphasizing that
34. American imperialists who advocated acquisition of the Philippines especially stressed
35. Starting in 1917, many Puerto Ricans came to the mainland United States seeking
36. On the question of whether American laws applied to the overseas territory acquired in the Spanish-American War, the Supreme Court ruled in the Insular Cases that
37. The United States asserted that it had a virtual right of continuing intervention in Cuba in the
38. By acquiring the Philippine Islands at the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States
39. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) American declaration of war on Spain, (B) sinking of the Maine, (C) passage of the Teller Amendment, and (D) passage of the Platt Amendment.
40. In 1899, guerrilla warfare broke out in the Philippines because
41. The Philippine insurrection was finally broken in 1901 when
42. The American war against the Philippine insurrectionists promoting Philippine independence
43. President McKinley's policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines
44. When Filipinos first came to the United States, they worked mainly as
45. Many Americans became concerned about the increasing foreign intervention in China because they
46. America's initial Open Door policy was essentially an argument to promote
47. China's Boxer Rebellion was an attempt to
48.in response to the Boxer Rebellion, the United States
49.in the aftermath of the Boxer uprising, the United States used the indemnity that China was forced to pay to
50. Teddy Roosevelt received the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1900 mainly because
51. Theodore Roosevelt strongly encouraged the Panamanians to revolt against Colombia because
52. The Roosevelt Corollary added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to
53. The secret Gentlemen's Agreement that President Theodore Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese in 1907-1908
54. In the Root-Takahira agreement of 1908
55. The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to
56. In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
57. The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass
58. The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court
59. While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
60. Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by
61. The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to
62. Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of
63. President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
64. Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism
65. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
66. The Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflected Wilson's progressive goals by
67. The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to
68. The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was
69. with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans
70. Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?
71. German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning
72. The Progressive Bull Moose Party died when
73. In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised
74. The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between
75. The United States declared war on Germany
76. When the United States entered World War I, it was
77. Two constitutional amendments, adopted in part because of World War I, were the Eighteenth, which dealt
78. World War I was the first time that
79. The World War I military draft
80. The Germans gained an immense military advantage in the first months of 1918 because
81. Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in
82. The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the parliamentary statesmen at the Paris peace table was that Wilson
83. Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to