Social Studies Midterm Chapter 10 Spanish and American War

Question 1

The queen of Hawaii who had to surrender to Sanford B. Dole. She removed the property owning requirement for voting, and she lived under the belief of “Hawaii for Hawaiians.”

Answer 1

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 2

White foreigners who planned to overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy

Answer 2

Haoles

Question 3

The policy in which in which stronger nations extended their economic, political, or military control over weaker countries

Answer 3

Imperialism

Question 4

The three factors that fueled the new American imperialism:

Answer 4

• Desire for military strength
• Thirst for new markets
• Belief in cultural superiority

Question 5

This man urged government officials to build up American naval power in order to compete with other powerful nations. The nine steel haul cruisers were built between 1883 and 1890 with the urging of this man and others

Answer 5

Alfred T. Mahan

Question 6

This man was a supporter of American Expansion , he was the secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska.

Answer 6

William Seward

Question 7

This was a important naval base, it became a refueling station for American ships

Answer 7

Pearl Harbor

Question 8

This man worked along with the marines to to overthrow the Hawaiian government.

Answer 8

John L. Stevens

Question 9

This man became the new ruler of Hawaii after it was overthrown.

Answer 9

Sanford B. Dole

Question 10

He was a New York World journalist who travelled to Cuba to cover the second Cuban war for independence from Spain

Answer 10

James Creelman

Question 11

This man was considered one of the “founding fathers of Cuba”. He was a poet and journalist. He organized a Cuban resistance against Spain. His slogan was “Cuba Libre!”

Answer 11

Jose Marti

Question 12

This man was sent to Cuba to restore order. He herded the entire rural population of Cuba in to concentration camps. About 300,000 Cubans filled these camps.

Answer 12

Valeriano Weyler

Question 13

A style of writing that includes a lot of exaggeration

Answer 13

Yellow journalism

Question 14

This man from Cuba wrote a controversial letter criticizing William McKinley

Answer 14

Enrique Dupay de Lôme

Question 15

The ship that was sent to Cuba to bring home U. S. citizens to protect them from the fighting, this ship was blown up and the Spanish are blamed for this

Answer 15

USS Maine

Question 16

This man was a commodore for the Americans who gave them the okay to open fire on the Spanish

Answer 16

George Dewey

Question 17

The voluntary Cavalry who was under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 17

Rough Riders

Question 18

The battle were the Rough Riders and two African American regiments defeated the Spanish. This was one of the most significant battles during the Spanish American war

Answer 18

San Juan Hill

Question 19

The secretary of state who called the Spanish- American war a “splendid little war”

Answer 19

John Hay

Question 20

The treaty that ended the Spanish-American war

Answer 20

Treaty of Paris

Question 21

An advocate of Puerto-Rican self government

Answer 21

Luis Muñoz Rivera

Question 22

This act ended military rule in Puerto Rico and set up a civil government

Answer 22

Foraker Act

Question 23

This amendment made the United States stated that:

• the U.S. could intervene in Cuba
• Cuba was not to go into debt
• Cuba could not let another foreign power control their independence or control a part of their land
• the U.S. could buy or lease land there

Answer 23

Platt Amendment

Question 24

A countries whose affairs are partially controlled by another

Answer 24

Protectorate

Question 25

This man was upset with the outcome of the Treaty of Paris, he thought the Phillippines had achieved independence

Answer 25

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 26

The proposer of the Open Door Notes

Answer 26

John Hay

Question 27

These notes were shared with other imperialist nations proposing that they should let the U.S. have a share in trading rights

Answer 27

Open Door Notes

Question 28

This is what happened when many Chinese people tried to rid their country of Chinese converts to Christianity and missionaries. European nations as well as America marched into China and ended this

Answer 28

The Boxer Rebellion

Question 29

This man played an important role in the building of the Panama Canal, he wrote on the process of building it

Answer 29

Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Question 30

This was one of the biggest engineering feats

Answer 30

Panama Canal

Question 31

This demanded that European countries stay out of the way of Latin-American countries

Answer 31

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 32

This was added to the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 32

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 33

The leaders of the Rebels who opposed Carranza

Answer 33

Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Emiliano Zapata

Question 34

He was ordered by Woodrow Wilson to immediately find and capture Fransisco Villa

Answer 34

John J. Pershing

Question 35

The gurantee of loans made by the U.S. to to other countries

Answer 35

Dollar diplomacy