Chapter 27

Question 1

Big Sister policy

Answer 1

Pushed by Secretary of State James G. Blaine, aimed at rallying Latin American nations behind the United States’s leadership and opening Latin American markets to Yankee traders

Question 2

Great Rapprochement

Answer 2

The reconciliation between Britain and the U.S. at the end of the Venezuelan boundary dispute that began a new era of diplomatic cooperation between them

Question 3

Insurrectos

Answer 3

Cuban rebels

Question 4

Teller Amendment

Answer 4

A proviso that proclaimed to the world that when the U.S. has overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give the Cubans their freedom

Question 5

Anti-Imperialist League

Answer 5

Fought the McKinley administration’s expansionist moves (included Mark Twain and the presidents of Harvard and Stanford)

Question 6

Foraker Act (1900)

Answer 6

Accorded the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government and outlawed cockfighting

Question 7

Insular Cases (1901)

Answer 7

The Supreme Court decreed that the flag did outrun the Constitution, and that the outdistanced document did not necessarily extend with full force to the new windfall

Question 8

U.S. vs. Germany (1889)

Answer 8

Over the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific, which were formally divided into two nations between them in 1899.

Question 9

U.S. vs. Canada (1893)

Answer 9

Over seal hunting near the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska. Resolved by arbitration in 1893.

Question 10

When did Spain sign an armistice?

Answer 10

August 12, 1898

Question 11

When was the Treaty of Paris approved by the Senate?

Answer 11

February 6, 1899