Topic 18 Flashcards
What English explorer first discovered the Hawaiian Islands?
James Cook
What area of land was purchased by the United States in 1867?
Alaska
Name the battleship sent to protect Americans living in Havana, Cuba.
The Maine
Name the insect that army doctors found carried yellow fever.
Mosquito
Name the area called Seward’s Folly?
Alaska
Name the country through which the United States built a canal.
Panama
Name the metal whose discovery made many people rush to Alaska.
Gold
Name the 50th state.
Hawaii
Name the process by which the United States took over Hawaii.
Annexation
Name two diseases that killed many Americans in Cuba.
Malaria and Yellow Fever
Name the policy of extending the rule of an empire or nation over foreign countries.
Imperialism
Name the idea that every nation would have equal trading rights with China.
Open Door Policy
Name the nation that sold Alaska to the United States.
Russia
Name the country that controlled Puerto Rico before 1898.
Spain
Name the act that made the people of Puerto Rico citizens of the United States.
The Jones Act
Name the practice of featuring sensational headlines to sell papers.
Yellow Journalism
Information or ideas that are spread to help or hurt a cause, group, or nation.
Propaganda
Name the war that lasted 100 days.
Spanish-American War
Where did the charge of the Rough Riders take place during the Spanish-American War?
San Juan Hill
Name the three territories gained by the United States from Spain at the end of the
Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines
