Chatper 10 - America Claims An Empire

Question 0

Why Imperialism?

Answer 0

1) desire for military strength -Mahan advised strong navy
2) thirst for new markets - to spur economy and trade
3) belief in cultural superiority - a belief that Anglo-Saxons were superior.

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

The policy in which stronger nations extend control over weaker nations.

Question 2

What was the Steward’s box?

Answer 2

In 1867, Secretary of State William Steward arranged for the United States to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.

Question 3

Alaska was rich in…

Answer 3

Timber, mineral and oil.

Question 4

U.S takes Hawaii

Answer 4

Hawaii has been economically important to Americans for centuries.

Question 5

To avoid import taxes (tariffs) who and what did they do?

Answer 5

Sugar growers pleaded for annexation.

Question 6

What naval base did they build on the island and why?

Answer 6

The U.S built the Pearl Harbor in 1887 because they knew the value of the islands.

Question 7

Who led the annexation of Hawaii in 1898?

Answer 7

Sanford Dole led annexed Hawaii in 1898 and it formally became a state in 1959.

Question 8

When Cubans unsuccessfully rebelled against Spanish rule in the 19th century…__________________.

Answer 8

American sympathy went out to the Cuban people.

Question 9

Why did the Americans invest millions in Cuban sugar?

Answer 9

Because it was after Spain abolished slavery in Cuba in 1886.

Question 10

Who was Jose Marti?

Answer 10

He was a poet who led the revolution in 1895 in which Cuba attempted to.

Question 11

What was Jose Marti’s plan of attack?

Answer 11

He destroyed property, including American sugar plants, hoping to provoke American intervention.

Question 12

Who were William Randolp Hearst and Jospeh Pulitizer?

Answer 12

They were publishers who exaggerated Spanish atrocities and brutality in “Headline Wars.”

Question 13

Early in the 1888 President McKinley ordered the U.S.S Maine to Cuba because?

Answer 13

In order to bring U.S.S American citizens in danger

Question 14

On Feb. 15 1898 the ship blew up in the harbor of _____.

Answer 14

Havana. (More than 260 people killed)

Question 15

Newspapers blamed the _______ for bombing the U.S.S Maine

Answer 15

Spanish

Question 16

“Remember Maine!”

Answer 16

Became a rallying cry for U.S intervention in Cuba.

Question 17

Who attacked Spain by attacking the Spanish colony of the Philippines?

Answer 17

The U.S forces

Question 18

11,000 Americans joined forces with Filipino rebel leader _________.

Answer 18

Emilo Aguinaldo

Question 19

By August, 1898 Spain did what?

Answer 19

Spain had surrendered to the U.S in Manila.

Question 20

The war in the caribbean

Answer 20

There was a naval blockade followed by a land invasion by Roosevelt’s Rough Rider victory at San Juan Hill.

Question 21

What did the America Navy destroy in the Spanish colony?

Answer 21

They destroyed the Spanish fleet and paved the way for an invasion of Puerto Rico.

Question 22

What was the “splendid little war?”

Answer 22

The treaty of paris in which the U.S and Spain signed on August. 12, 1898.
Last only for 16 weeks
Cuba was now independent
U.S received Guam, Puerto Rico, and “bought” Philippines for $20 million,

Question 23

Puerto Rico wanted independence but the U.S didnt allow it. Why?

Answer 23

Puerto Rico was important to the U.S strategically.

The U.S set up a civil government, full citizenship and bicameral system.

Question 24

Platt Amendment 1903

Answer 24

Included the right of the U.S to maintain naval stations on the island and right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
Cuban had become a “protectorate” of the U.S

Question 25

Filipinos Rebel

Answer 25

Filipinos wanted annexation
Emilo vowed to fight and led the rebellion in 1899.
This was a 3 year war which claimed 20,000 filipino rebels and 4,000 american loves and $400,000,000 (20x the price the U.S paid for the land)

Question 26

What was the open door policy?

Answer 26

In 1889 John Hay U.S Secretary of State issued the open door policy which outlined his plan for free trade among nations in China.

Question 27

The Boxer Rebellion

Answer 27

Chinese people weren’t too happy about the Europeans dominating China’s cities.
Boxers were a secret group that rioted in 1900 killing and vandalizing all thing foreign.

Question 28

What happened after the Boxer Rebellion?

Answer 28

John Hay issued a series of open door policies in which reflected American beliefs in the importance of exports, the right of America to intervene to keep foreign markets open, and the belief that America’s survival depended on access to foreign markets.

Question 29

Two things in which made America to #1 world of power.

Answer 29

1) Rooselvelt nwgoiated a settlement b/w Russia and Japan who ad been at war by the Treaty of Portsmouth. (He won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize)
2) construction of panama canal

Question 30

The advantages of the panama canal

Answer 30

Reduce travel times for commercial and military ships by providing a short cut b/w the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,

Question 31

Before building the canal, America first had to what?

Answer 31

To help Panama win their independence from Columbia- which they did.