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Question 1

When was the proclamation of neutrality announced in the U.S?

Answer 1

1793

Question 2

What president went a step further in the proclamation of neutrality announced in the U.S?

Answer 2

President James Monroe

Question 3

When was the Monroe Doctrine announced?

Answer 3

1823

Question 4

What was the Monroe Doctrine principles based on?

Answer 4

First, it restated America’s foreign policy of neutrality in European wars. Second, the doctrine stated that foreign nations would no longer be allowed to start new colonies in North and South America

Question 5

When did the U.S start trading lively with European and Asian countries and if so what was a MAJOR change in the countries trade?

Answer 5

In the 1800’s and China made it a big deal.

Question 6

What is isolationism?

Answer 6

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 7

Why did European nations need raw materials?

Answer 7

To supply their factories.

Question 8

What is imperialism?

Answer 8

A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Question 9

What year did the U.S start pulling their attention towards the pacific?

Answer 9

In the mid 1800’s

Question 10

What president used a fleet of warships to convince Japanese leaders to sign the Treaty of Yokohama?

Answer 10

President Commodore Perry

Question 11

What did president Commodore Perry do that was of significance?

Answer 11

He used a fleet of warships to convince Japanese leaders to sign the Treaty of Yokohama. Which led to trade with the Japanese.

Question 12

What was a major event that happened in 1867 as a result from the U.S.

Answer 12

Alaska was bought from Russia for approximately 7.2 million.

Question 13

What year did the american sugar planters revolt against their Hawaiian ruler?

Answer 13

1893.

Question 14

What president refused (at first) when asked to annex the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 14

President Grover Cleveland.

Question 15

What reason did President Grover Cleveland refuse to annex the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 15

He said that they illegally seized and that the native people were against it.

Question 16

Which president finally annexed the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 16

William McKinley .

Question 17

Through what source did president William McKinley annex Hawaiian land?

Answer 17

Through congress.

Question 18

What stopped the U.S from seizing china?

Answer 18

Trading with China would therefore stop.

Question 19

What made the U.S interested in the Caribbean ?

Answer 19

People were revolting against their Spanish rulers.

Question 20

Who ethnicity group was revolting against the Spaniards?

Answer 20

The cubans

Question 21

What year were the Cubans revolting against their Spanish ruler?

Answer 21

1895.

Question 22

Why did the U.S favor the Cuban rebels?

Answer 22

The yellow press printed cruelty stories of the Spaniards cruelty towards Cubans.

Question 23

What was another major reason the U.S favored the Cuban rebels?

Answer 23

Some Americans were working and living in Cuba

Question 24

What president sent battleship Maine to Havana, Cuba/ What year?

Answer 24

President William McKinley/1898

Question 25

What event destroyed the Maine battleship?

Answer 25

An explosion.

Question 26

What year was the Maine battleship destroyed?

Answer 26

February 15, 1898

Question 27

What major event happened as a result?

Answer 27

War was declared on the Spanish.

Question 28

What year did the U.S declare war on the Spanish?

Answer 28

April 15, 1898.

Question 29

Where was the first Spanish-American war fought?

Answer 29

The Spanish colony of the Philippine islands.

Question 30

Who won the Spanish-American war that was fought on the Spanish colony of the Philippine islands?

Answer 30

The U.S!!

Question 31

Where did fighting shift to after the war in the Spanish Colony of the Philippine islands?

Answer 31

The fighting shifted to Cuba.

Question 32

Who was president went the fighting shifted to Cuba?

Answer 32

President Theodore Roosevelt.

Question 33

What year was the fight in Cuba?/ What were those soldier called?

Answer 33

1898/Rough Riders

Question 34

What did Theodore Roosevelt do in that changed history/What year?

Answer 34

He decided to build the Panama Canal Zone.

Question 35

What year did Theodore Roosevelt fully capture the Panama Canal Zone

Answer 35

1903

Question 36

When was the Panama Canal Zone finished?

Answer 36

1914

Question 37

What was the battle of the name that almost 300 Sioux Indians were killed in?

Answer 37

The battle of the wounded knee.

Question 38

Where were these 300 Sioux Indians killed in?

Answer 38

South Dakota

Question 39

Who were some of the major men that started the railroad industry in the U.S?

Answer 39

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, and James Jerome Hill.

Question 40

Who was one of the major leaders of the steel industry?

Answer 40

Andrew Carnegie

Question 41

What process dis Andrew Carnegie use for steel processing?

Answer 41

Bessemer process.

Question 42

What years was child labor pretty often in the U.S?

Answer 42

During the late 1800’s and the beginning of the early 1900’s.

Question 43

What did WASP stand for?

Answer 43

White Anglo Saxon Protestant.