World Power Quiz

Why did the United States build the Panama Canal?

• to separate South America from North America

• to make it easier to access the Pacific Ocean

• to decrease trade with Asia

• to divide the power of the United States Navy

How did Hawaii become part of the United States?

• Hawaii was taken over by the U.S.
• Hawaii was taken over by Puerto Rico
• Hawaii was purchased from Spain
• Hawaii was purchased from Panama

The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine came right before which event?

• The purchase of the Philippines
• The Spanish-American War
• World War I
• Panama's Revolution

What name was given to exaggerated stories written to sell newspapers?

• yellow ink
• whale of a story
• yellow journalism
• pink journalism

What  happened on February 17, 1898 that upset many Americans?

• Theodore Roosevelt became president.
• The USS Maine was sunk near Cuba.
• Upton Sinclair published a book called The Jungle
• The transcontinental railroad was built.

What was the price the United States paid to gain Alaska from Russia?

• $3.5 million
• $7.2 million
• $10 million
• $100 million

What did the United States have to control in order to build the Panama Canal?

• expenditure and work
• workers' hours and salaries
• Colombia and Panama governments
• mosquitoes and disease

Why did the United States want to build the Panama Canal?   

• To shorten the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
•  To gain control of Latin America
• To show Spain that it could no longer control its former colony. 
• To prevent the Panamanians from building a canal first.

Who built and benefited the most from the Panama Canal?

• China
• Germany
• United States
• Canada

Who led the Rough Riders, build the Panama Canal?

• William McKinley
• Theodore Roosevelt