American Imperialism & Progressive Era

Journalists often printed fictional headlines to

• Report lies
• Sell more papers
• Betray the American readers
• Start an anarchist uprising

The USS Maine, as viewed by supporters of war, was believed to be

• Blown up by Spain
• Exploded from an internal malfunction
• Destroyed by its own men
• Destroyed by Cuba

The building AND finishing of the Panama Canal was funded and supported by 

• Panama
• France
• The United States
• Guam

The Spanish American War resulted in the United States gaining all of the territories EXCEPT

• Guam
• The Phillipines
• Puerto Rico
• Cuba

Yellow Journalists were:

• writers who exposed period problems in hopes of achieving reform
• writers who wrote in yellow to bring attention to Spanish abuses
• newspaper reporters and illustrators who exaggerated stories in order to sell newspapers and fuel a war with Spain
• writers who opposed American imperialism and aimed to keep America neutral

What was Roosevelt's policy called?

• dollar diplomacy
• big stick diplomacy
• moral diplomacy
• Pan-Americanism

The United States government supported the overthrow of a government in this country: 

• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Hawaii
• Congo

The passing of what piece of United States legislation sparked the Boxer Rebellion?

• the Emancipation Proclamation
• the Monroe Doctrine
• the Open Door Policy
• the Quota System

Imperialism is __________.

• when a powerful nation uses its resources to help a weaker nation
• when a weaker nation invites a powerful nation to help it industrialize
• when a powerful nation takes control of the economy and government of a weaker nation
• when weak nations join together to fight a strong nation

Alfred T. Mahan argued:

• to become an empire, the US needed to acquire naval bases and strengthen its naval power
• the burden of the white man is to support and uplift non-whites
• imperialism was not democratic and engaging in it would be hypocritical
• the nation's economic needs could be satisfied from within as the US should avoid risking itself in foreign entanglements