Social Studies

Question 0

Annexation

Answer 0

When a Large country takes over a smaller country.

Question 1

A Gift From The Gods

Answer 1

President McKinley said the Philippines was this because he believed the Philippine people were backwards and unable to rule themselves.

Question 2

Anti Imperialists

Answer 2

Isolationists who did not want to take over other lands.

Question 3

Armistice

Answer 3

Cease fire. Official stop to fighting.

Question 4

Artifact

Answer 4

Object or piece of an object that is usually man made and left over from an earlier time.

Question 5

Bayonett Constitution

Answer 5

When American businessmen forced the last king of Hawaii to give up his power at gun point.

Question 6

Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 6

Black men who fought for the USA and did not get any credit for their part in war.

Question 7

Commodore George Dewey

Answer 7

USA Navy, sailed into Manila Bay- Philippians and sank or disabled every Spanish ship there in FIRST battle of SPAM War.

Question 8

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 8

Philippine exile who was on Dewey’s ship to return to the Philippians to fight for independence from Spain.

Question 9

Expansionism

Answer 9

To grow, to take over other lands.

Question 10

Famous Expansionists

Answer 10

Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Mahan

Question 11

Famous Isolationists

Answer 11

Grover Cleveland and Mark Twain

Question 12

Figurehead

Answer 12

A person still has their title but no power.

Question 13

Guerilla Attack

Answer 13

Hit and run by a small group of soldiers

Question 14

Grover Cleveland

Answer 14

USA President who was sympathetic to the Hawaiian people. He did not want to annex Hawaii. He was an isolationist.

Question 15

Imperialism

Answer 15

Pertaining to an empire. Sometimes linked to expansionism

Question 16

Imperialist

Answer 16

Expansionists who believed we should take over other countries.

Question 17

Insurecto

Answer 17

Cuban revolutionary fighter

Question 18

Isolationism

Answer 18

Ignoring other country’s conflicts. Minding my own business

Question 19

Manifest Destiny

Answer 19

God destines or wants us to take over and expand into other lands.

Question 20

Prestige

Answer 20

Wanted to look good in the world and to have world respect

Question 21

Primary Source

Answer 21

The person who was there and is sharing the situation, like an autobiography

Question 22

Queen Liliuokalani

Answer 22

First and last queen of Hawaii

Question 23

Secondary Source

Answer 23

The person who is sharing the story about someone else, like a biography

Question 24

Sensationalism

Answer 24

Big stories, big headlines, about crime, romance and strange events that may or may not be true.

Question 25

The Hawaiian League

Answer 25

Secret group of USA pineapple and sugar plantation owners who wanted more control in the government and for the USA to annex Hawaii.

Question 26

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 26

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT! He led the Rough Riders to victory up San Juan Hill, which was a great battle.

Question 27

The Platt Amendment

Answer 27

Gave the USA the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuba, which means that we can get involved if the Cuban government is doing anything we don’t like OR if anyone invades them.

Question 28

The Treaty of Paris

Answer 28

Peace treaty between USA and Spain, signed in Paris, France, that ended the SPAM War.

Question 29

White Man’s Idea

Answer 29

People of color need to be “Americanized”

Question 30

William McKinley

Answer 30

Next president of the USA who annexed Hawaii.

SA president that did NOT want to go to war with Spain.

Question 31

Yellow Journalism

Answer 31

Stories are written to get a reaction out of the reader. May be false. The term yellow may come from the cheap yellow paper used to print these papers or the very popular YELLOW KID comic strip.