American Imperialism Review

The United States led Europe in establishing an empire in the late nineteenth century.

• True

• False

Some American sugar growers in Hawaii deliberately sought to create a mixed-race workforce.

• True

• False

For the ten years before 1899, America jockeyed over dominance of Samoa with Spain and France.

• True

• False

American interest in a war with Cuba was spurred by the 1895 death of Valeriano Weyler, head of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.

• True

• False

A naval court of inquiry reported that the Maine had been blown up by an external explosion.

• True

• False

In the last few months leading up to war with Spain, President McKinley sought to involve the United States in the conflict in Cuba.

• True

• False

The United States was forced to rely on the regular army and a military draft in fighting the Spanish-American War.

• True

• False

The fact that black Cuban soldiers fought alongside whites as equals gave black American soldiers a stronger sense of the injustices they faced.

• True

• False

Early in the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey managed to completely destroy the Spanish fleet in the Pacific at Manila Bay.

• True

• False

The American annexation of Puerto Rico produced a storm of protest in the United States.

• True

• False