Beyond Manifest Destiny 20%

Question 1

Hawaii (and annexation)

Answer 1

Hawaii offered a crucial stopping point for American ships going to East Asia. American plantations were also put up in Hawaii

Question 2

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 2

Queen of Hawaii during the time of U.S. annexation

Question 3

Immigration

Answer 3

Population growth and economic expansion. 45% of Americans were immigrants during that time

Question 4

Urban Growth

Answer 4

Immigrants started the increase of urban growth. Agriculture loses its central spot

Question 5

International trade

Answer 5

The new immigrants helped manufacture different types of goods that other countries valued

Question 6

Depression of 1893

Answer 6

New York stock exchange tumbled cause of the unexpected bankruptcy of two major railroads

Question 7

Frontier

Answer 7

Unexplored land where the settlers encountered the native Americans

Question 8

Values that define Americans

Answer 8

Patriotism, pragmatism, ingenuity, individualism

Question 9

Expansion/expansionists

Answer 9

Expansionists wanted control over unoccupied land

Question 10

Imperialism/imperialist

Answer 10

Imperialists wanted control over territory’s that was already occupied

Question 11

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 11

He promoted the United States naval and commercial expansion

Question 12

Cuba

Answer 12

Cuba was one of the last territories of Spain

Question 13

Social Darwinism

Answer 13

The weak will perish and strong will prosper

Question 14

Scientific racism

Answer 14

Black people are lower on the scale of evolution and therefore white people are superior

Question 15

White mans burden

Answer 15

The alleged duty of white colonisers to care for nonwhite people

Question 16

Protestantism

Answer 16

A different form of Christianity that went against the errors of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 17

Yellow journalism

Answer 17

Exegarrated news

Question 18

Teller amendment

Answer 18

States that America doesn’t have permanent control over Cuba

Question 19

General Valeriano Weyler

Answer 19

He was the Spanish general

Question 20

Maximo Gomez

Answer 20

Leader of Cuban rebels/rebellion

Question 21

Samoa

Answer 21

America agreed to assist Samoa in case of foreign interference in return for free access to Samoa’s harbour

Question 22

U.S. goals in Cuba

Answer 22

America invested in the islands sugar industry and even removed tariffs so that it was cheaper to buy in America

Question 23

Venezuela

Answer 23

Britain was using Venezuela for their gold deposits, America didn’t like that and came to an agreement that didn’t involve Venezuela

Question 24

Rough riders

Answer 24

An American infantry that fought in Cuba

Question 25

Revolution in Cuba

Answer 25

A revolt against Spanish rule broke out. The rebels outnumbered, thought that America would help them

Question 26

U.S.S Maine

Answer 26

It was blown up in the port of Havana Spain