THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM READING TEST

Part III: Cuba –TR’s Navy

CUBA

  1. In 1895, what happened between the Cuban resistance and Spanish government in Cuba?
  2. Who was José Marti?
  3. Who was ValerianoWeyler, and why was he sent to Cuba?
  4. Name two “yellow journalists” and their newspapers.
  5. How did Americans feel about the Cuban people’s struggles against Spain?
  6. Why did they feel this way?
  7. How did the newspapers “feed the flames” of the Cuban revolution?
  8. (FN3) Who was Frederick Remington?
  9. What were Remington’s instructions from William Randolph Hearst?
  10. Elected in 1896, how did the new American president, William McKinley, feel about expansion?

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

  1. Once elected, how did McKinley feel an American conflict with Spain?
  2. (a) What was the DeLome Letter?
  3. How did McKinley respond to the letter?
  4. How did TR respond to the letter?
  5. What did McKinley do to let the Spanish in Cuba know that “America was always watching and not a happy camper?”
  6. What happened on the evening of 15 February 1898 that enraged Americans?
  7. What two things did Spain do to try and avoid war with the United States?
  8. Why was the Teller Amendment added to the declaration of war?
  9. What are the two parts of the Teller Amendment?
  10. Today, what do we know about Spain’s response to American demands before war was declared?
  11. What was “fueled by journalistic sensationalism?”
  12. Where was the first battle of the Spanish American Ware fought?
  13. Who was George Dewey, and what did he do in Manila Bay?
  14. How long did the Spanish American War last?
  15. Of 5,462 American casualties, only 379 died in combat. How did the remainder die?
  16. (FN7) Why did American soldiers call their food “embalmed meat?”
  17. What did Assistant Secretary of the Navy TR do when war broke out?
  18. Who were the Rough Riders?
  19. What is the significance of the Battle of San Juan Hill?
  20. What were the four provisions of the 1898 Treaty of Paris?
  21. After the war, why did the United States demand an American protectorate in Cuba?
  22. What were the four parts of the 1901 Platt Amendment?

THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION

  1. Who was Emiliano Aguinaldo?
  2. What type of war was the Philippine Insurrection?
  3. Why was the American Anti-Imperialism League formed?
  4. What three famous people were involved with the League?

THE CARIBBEAN AND THE CANAL

  1. What demonstrated the strategic need for a canal across the Central American isthmus?
  2. What two countries were being considered for this canal?
  3. What country was finally chosen for the canal site? Why?
  4. (FN8) Why was a postage stamp the deciding factor against the other canal site?
  5. Why did a “seemingly easy ratification” over the canal become tenuous?
  6. What was TR’s response to the controversy over the congressional canal debate?
  7. Once the US Congress ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty, what did the Colombian Senate do that infuriated TR?
  8. What is the relationship between the Columbian refusal to ratify the Hay-Herran Treaty and the Panamanian revolution?
  9. What role did the USS Nashville play in Revolution?
  10. How did American Secretary of State John Hay respond to the news that Panama was “now a sovereign republic?”

THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY AND DOLLAR DIPLOMACY

  1. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
  2. What practice caused TR enough worry to issue the Corollary?
  3. Why was William Howard Taft’s foreign policy known as “Dollar Diplomacy?”

JAPAN

  1. Over what did Japan and Russia go to war in 1904?
  2. In the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth:

(a)What was the result regarding Japan and Russia?

(b)Who acted as arbitrator over the proceedings?

(c)What honor did this person receive due to his direction of this Treaty?

  1. What were the two conditions of the Taft-Katsura Agreement of 1905?
  2. What “most basic of human fallibilities” was the cause behind the deterioration of relations between the United States and Japan?
  3. (a) What did Kaiser Wilhelm refer to as the Yellow Peril? Why?
  4. What 1906 action by the San Francisco School Board angered the Japanese government?
  5. What were the two terms of the Gentleman’s Agreement between the United States and Japan?