Imperialism

What was the main economic reason for imperialism?

• to gain raw materials and new markets
• to spread Christianity to other regions
• to show their national pride
• to build factories and canals

What area is known as "Seward's Folly"?

• Hawaii
• Cuba
• Alaska
• Puerto Rico

What is the type of sensational reporting where writers exaggerated or even invented stories?

• muckraking
• yellow journalism
• journalism
• paparazzi

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

What country was the target of America's Open Door Policy? 

• Japan

• China.

• Spain

• Russia

What misconception of Alaska did many Americans hold true"?

• Americans didn't own a territory so far north
• It was a frozen wasteland with no resources
• U.S. had already annexed Samoa, and didn't need another territory
• Thought two-cents an acre was too expensive

The explosion of the USS Maine

• proved that McKinley was a weak president
• rallied Americans against Spain
• caused American prejudice about Spanish immigrants
• formed a bond between America and Cuba

Panama is damp, tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mosquitos.  These mosquitos carried what diseases?

• small pox and scarlet fever
• influenza and malaria
• rickets and diphtheria
• yellow fever and malaria

The de Lome letter ___. 

• encouraged Spain to attack America
• stopped the expansion of the United States.
• called President McKinley weak.
• demanded the surrender of the Philippines.

Newspaper man who wrote sensational (exaggerated) stories and who owned a publishing empire
 

• William Randolph Hearst
• Commander George Dewey
•  Rough Riders
• Theodore Roosevelt