American Imperialism Test Review

Multiple Choice

Reasons for Expansionism

• Gain in access to natural resources and oversea markets, expansion in trade.

• 
  non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics.

• the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.

Multiple Choice

Fleet of ships that Theodore Roosevelt sent around the world to show U.S. dominance in navy

• Great White Fleet

• US Navy Supreme

• USS Maine

• USS Texas

Match

Match the people

• Led the Rough Riders

• Queen of Hawaii

• Belief US needed strong navy

• 
  Dollar Diplomacy

• Moral Diplomacy

Theodore Roosevelt

Queen Liliuokalani

Alfred Thayer Mahan

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Queen Liliuokalani

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

Fill in the Blanks

is when a stronger nation works to create an empire.

Categorize

Options (7)

Spanish atrocities in Cuba

Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine

Yellow Journalism

Desire for new markets

U.S. claims in Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico

Popularity of Theodore Roosevelt

U.S. considered a world power

Categorize the causes and effects of the Spanish-American War of 1898:

Causes

Effects