Imperialism Test

Question 0

Alfred T Mahan

Answer 0

Thesis: every great nation must have a great navy to police and control trade; most imperialism is to control economy

Question 1

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 1

White man who wrote poem about white mans Burden; for it

Question 2

Mark twain

Answer 2

Anti imperialist; made us more like Europe

Question 3

Josiah Strong

Answer 3

Answer to problems is the social gospel; need to imperialize because it is sanctioned by God to spread religion and good governance

Question 4

Valeriano Weyler

Answer 4

The Butcher; he is the reinforcement Spain sends to Cuba when they think that they will win their independence movement; he brings reconcentration camps

Question 5

Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 5

1. Regularly used military abroad
2. If the constitution doesn’t say it, I can do it
3. Hungry for war because he wants to expand
   He thinks war makes a nation

Question 6

Albert Beveridge

Answer 6

Survival of the fittest applies to nations

Question 7

Phillipe Bunau-Varilla

Answer 7

Approached TR and said Panama was going to revolt and said if US helps they will get the land for the Panama Canal

Question 8

William Howard Taft

Answer 8

Created dollar diplomacy

Question 9

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 9

Anti imperialism: the rest of the world are like we used to be economically and not unlike anyone in the US

Question 10

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 10

Wanted to go to war so his newspaper would sell more; Jingoism

Question 11

Jingoism

Answer 11

Extreme rivalry that gets exaggerated; pro war talk

Question 12

De Lome letter

Answer 12

Enrique De Lome is Spanish ambassador for US; sends opinion to McKinley
-calls him and US a PUSSY

Question 13

USS Maine

Answer 13

Exploded 2/15/1898 and no one knows why but blames it on Spain

Question 14

Yellow Journalism

Answer 14

Newspapers were desperate to sell whatever they can so they exaggerated the truth

Question 15

American Anti-imperialist league

Answer 15

Formed around 1899 to sway public opinion

Question 16

Rough riders

Answer 16

Calvary division in Spanish-American war; Ivy leaguers

Question 17

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 17

Rebel movement leader in the Philippines

Question 18

Platt Amendment

Answer 18

Amendment to the Treaty of Paris; says that if US property is threatened in Cuba, then US can intervene

Question 19

Teller amendment

Answer 19

Asked Spain to abide by a set list of rules and when they only agreed to 2 of the 3 US congress declared war

1. Ceasefire
2. Negotiate with Cubans
3. End reconcentration

Question 20

Treaty of Paris

Answer 20

Ends Spanish-American war;US doesn’t get Cuba because of teller amendment

Question 21

Monroe doctrine

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1. Kicks Europe out of western Hemisphere
2. Free trade
3. Roosevelt corollary is added

Question 22

Roosevelt corollary

Answer 22

Added to Monroe doctrine in 1903 officially declares us olive force of the hemisphere

Question 23

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 23

Taft; a system of lending that benefits America

Question 24

Cesar Agusto Sandio

Answer 24

Leader of Nicaragua when Civil war erupts in 1926

Question 25

Anastasio Somoza

Answer 25

In 1936, US installs him as leader for next 20 years

Question 26

Isolationism

Answer 26

US somewhat retreats from the foreign scene (except in those places where economic interests informed policy)

Question 27

Good neighbor policy

Answer 27

Ended the Platt amendment; created by FDR