United States = World Power

The United States became a big industrial power during the __________ which led to their rise to world power.

• Industrial Revolution

• Progressive Era

• Immigration

Americans wanted a ______ role in the world to get ______ and markets to sell products to.

• larger; raw materials

• larger; money

• smaller; immigrant labor

The __________ meant many people believed they had a God-given right to expand across the seas

• Manifest Destiny

• Industrial Revolution

• Progressive Era

__________ was the belief of American superiority that America is the best.

• Social Darwinism

• Manifest Destiny

• Progressive Era

Social Darwinism, Manifest Destiny, and the Industrial Revolution were ________ that played a role in the Spanish American War. American involvement in the Panamanian revolt (Panama Canal) and the American Involvement in WWI.

• motivations

• reasons

• successes

The exploration of the _________ is one of the causes of the Spanish American War

• USS Maine

• USS Vermont

• USS New York

__________ is stating something that is far worse or better that it really is.

• Yellow Journalism

• Tabloid Reporting

• Fake News

__________ reported on the explosion of the USS Maine.

• Yellow Journalism

• Fake News

• Tabloid Reporting

Yellow journalists made the Spanish rulers seem ________ and convinced Americans that Cubans needed __________.

• cruel; saving

• helpless; money

• incompetent; weapons

___________ asked the US Congress to declare war on Spain

• President McKinney

• President Monroe

• President Roosevelt