Check Your Understanding- Chapter 27

Question 1

Which of the following was not among the factors propelling America toward overseas expansion in the 1890s?

Answer 1

The need to find new African and Asian sources of raw materials for American industry

Question 2

Which of the following was not among the hot spots that nearly embroiled the United States in war in the 1890s?

Answer 2

The Virgin Islands

Question 3

All of the following were true of the McKinley Tariff except

Answer 3

its lower rates went along with President Cleveland’s anti-protectionist philosophy.

Question 4

During the Spanish-American War, the American press

Answer 4

promoted the inaccurate conclusion that the Spanish government had been guilty of intolerable treachery

Question 5

Admiral George Dewey’s military position in Manila harbor was precarious even after the defeat of the Spanish navy because

Answer 5

he had no American land forces available to actually seize control of the Philippines.

Question 6

On the whole, the United States Army’s performance in Cuba was

Answer 6

crippled by logistical chaos and disease that killed thousands of soldiers.