Chapter 6 Test

Question 1

Lines on a map that run side to side

Answer 1

latitude

Question 2

Policy of controlling foreign lands

Answer 2

imperialism

Question 3

Man who proved that mosquitos spread yellow fever

Answer 3

Walter Reed

Question 4

The gathering and presenting of news by newspapers and magazines

Answer 4

journalism

Question 5

Lines on a map that run up and down

Answer 5

longitude

Question 6

Man who bought Alaska from Russia for the United States

Answer 6

William Seward

Question 7

The idea that America should spread from one ocean to another

Answer 7

Manifest Destiny

Question 8

The United States stopped expanding after this year

Answer 8

1853

Question 9

Some countries wanted to build this as a shortcut through Central America

Answer 9

canal

Question 10

A line that compares distances on a map to distances in the real world

Answer 10

map scale

Question 11

Theodore Roosevelt helped lead these guys in the Battle of San Juan Hill

Answer 11

Rough Riders

Question 12

This was difficult for steamships to get

Answer 12

coal

Question 13

The commander of chief of the military

Answer 13

president of the United States

Question 14

Made traveling around the world by ship easier after the Civil War

Answer 14

steam engines

Question 15

They go to another country to represent their own country

Answer 15

ambassador

Question 16

Americans view their ________ as something special from the earliest days.

Answer 16

culture

Question 17

Cuba exported this to the United States, but it was being destroyed by the war

Answer 17

sugarcane

Question 18

Essay

Explain why Americans wanted to expand

Answer 18

Some wanted to make money, and some people wanted the rest of the world to hear about Jesus.