Foreign Policy

Question 1

Cleveland and Venezeula

Answer 1

Cleveland and Richard Olney (secretary of state) apply the Monroe doctrine to a border dispute between British and Venezuelans

British do not want to loose friendship with the US so they back down

Question 2

Jingoism

Answer 2

an intense form of nationalism calling for an aggressive foreign policy

Question 3

Reasons for Spanish American War

Answer 3

Cuban Revolt (Cubans were sabotaging plantations. US can step in for business reasons)

Yellow Press

Sinking of the Maine

Question 4

Yellow Press

Answer 4

actively promoted war fever before the Spanish American War

made Spanish atrocities to seem worse in Cuba

Question 5

Sinking of the Maine

Answer 5

US battle ship exploded while anchored in Havana, Cuba

Yellow press blamed the Spanish for this

In reality, it was probably an accident

Question 6

McKinley’s war message

Answer 6

Reasons for the Spanish American War:

1. End bloodshed in Cuba
2. Protect US citizens living in Cuba
3. End injury to business and trade (burning plantations)
4. End constant menace to America’s peace

Question 7

Teller Amendment

Answer 7

Authorized the Spanish American War

Declared that the United States did not want to take political control of Cuba

Once peace was restored the Cubans could be in control

Question 8

What did most Americans die of in the Spanish American War?

Answer 8

Tropical disease

Question 9

Annexation of Haiwaii

Answer 9

Opposed by Cleveland

Accomplished by McKinley due to the fight for the Phillipines

Question 10

Which political party endorsed expansion?

Answer 10

Mostly the Republican party since they were in cohorts with the business leaders

Question 11

Reasons for expansion

Answer 11

Open new markets

Get more natural resources

Achieve greater world power

Question 12

Controversy over the Spanish American War Peace Treaty

Answer 12

The treaty provided for the Philipines to become a US territory

Many felt this unconstitutional to subjugate a unique people

Imperialists ended up winning this debate and the treaty passed

Question 13

Platt Amendment

Answer 13

After the Spanish American War required Cuba to:

1. never sign a treaty to impair independence
2. never build up excessive debt
3. permit the US to intervene in Cuban affairs
4. allow the US to establish Guantanamo Bay

Question 14

Important effect of the Spanish American War

Answer 14

Both Americans and Europeans saw how powerful the United States was

Question 15

How does Roosevelt get into office?

Answer 15

McKinley is shot

Question 16

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Answer 16

Independent Panama signs the treaty to grant the United States long term control of the Canal Zone

this removes British involvement in building the canal

Question 17

How was the Roosevelt Corollary often used?

Answer 17

United States would send gunboats to a Latin American country and occupy their ports until it paid outstanding debts

Question 18

Portsmouth Treaty

Answer 18

Resolves fighting between the Japanese and the Russians

Mediated by Roosevelt

Question 19

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 19

Japanese agree to restrict immigration of Japanese workers to United States

California stops discriminatory practices in education system

Question 20

Root-Takahira Agreement

Answer 20

Important agreement between the United States and Japan

1. mutual respect for eachother in the pacific
2. support for Open Door Policy in China

Question 21

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 21

Republican Senator

Leader in the fight against the League of Nations

Makes a corollary to Monroe Doctrine that excludes Japanese from being able to intervene in Latin America

Question 22

Wilson in Mexico

Answer 22

He refuses to support the dictator General Victoriano Huerta

Wilson asks for an arms embargo and sends military to Vera Cruz to block supplies from getting to Huerta

Pancho Villa rises to power and leads raids across the American border

Wilson orders Villa to be hunted down