History Quiz 28, Chapter 17, pp. 312-318

Question 1

President McKinley’s Vice-Presidential running mate in the 1900 election

Answer 1

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 2

lieutenant colonel who helped lead a group of volunteer troops known as the Rough Riders

Answer 2

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 3

President who was fatally shot by a man who claimed to be an anarchist

Answer 3

William McKinley

Question 4

commanded the American Fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay

Answer 4

George Dewey

Question 5

U.S. army doctor who helped prove that mosquitoes spread malaria and yellow fever

Answer 5

Walter Reed

Question 6

President who believed that America must stay in the Philippines to protect them from the foreign powers

Answer 6

William McKinley

Question 7

What American battleship exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba?

Answer 7

the Maine

Question 8

According to the Teller Resolution, why did the United States fight the Spanish-American War?

Answer 8

to free Cuba from tyranny

Question 9

Where did the US gain permission to establish a naval base in return for protecting Hawaii from foreign invasion?

Answer 9

Pearl Harbor

Question 10

What amendment provided for Cuban independence under certain conditions?

Answer 10

Platt Amendment