1302 Exam 2

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

relatively few americans were interested in it in the 1870s

The policy of extending a nation’s power over other areas and imposing control over other peoples through military conquest, economic domination, or annexation

Question 2

Seward’s Folly

Answer 2

Secretary of State William Henry Seward, who pushed an expansive foreign policy

A treaty to purchase Alaska partly to sandwich western canada between american territory and lead to its annexation