Chapter 8 AMERICA BUILDS AN EMPIRE

What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy in China?

• End the Boxer Rebellion
• Ensure trading rights with China
• Win leaseholds in China
• Establish a sphere of influence

Taft’s belief - supporting Latin American industry = economic boost for U.S. & Latin America.

• Mutual benefit
• Pan-Americanism
• Economic downturn
• Dollar Diplomacy

The Spanish-American War (1898) marked a turning point in American foreign policy because the United State 

• developed a plan for peaceful coexistence 
• American became a world power
• pledged neutrality in future European conflicts 
• refused to become a colonial power 

All of these territories came under the control of the United States following what conflict?

• Mexican War
• World War I
• War of 1812
• Spanish-American War

The United States acquired the territory shaded in green during the Spanish-American War.  The name of that territory is

• Cuba
• Japan
• Philippines
• Spain

This political cartoon best illustrates Roosevelt's attempt to--

• assert the United Stats' right to interfere in European Economic matters.
• prevent Europeans from intervening in Latin American affairs
• maintain peace between Europe and Latin America
• remain neutral and not interfere in foreign affairs

How did the United States' Open Door Policy impact China?

• It prevented Europe from opening China to trade 
• It ended all foreign control or influence over China
• It allowed Chinese immigrants to enter the United States
• It allowed all nations to trade with China

Critics of the actions shown in this cartoon claimed President Theodore Roosevelt was - 

• causing environmental damage in Central America 
• wrongfully instigating a revolution in Panama 
• requiring massive tax increases in the United States 
• producing major trade deficits with China 

President Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy was closely associated with? 

• friendly relations with China after the Boxer Rebellion 
• the conservation of natural resources 
• court actions to oppose business monopolies 
• intervention in the affairs of Latin American nations 

Wanted the US to have a strong navy (overseas)

• Alvin York
• John J Pershing
• Sanford B Dole
• Alfred Thayer Mahan