Spanish American War/Panama Canal Summit Drive

The belief in a God-given right to expand across the seas.

• Social Darwinism

• Survival of the fittest

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Destiny

The explosion of the Battleship __________was one cause of the Spanish American War

• Titanic

• Lusitania

• Delaware

• Maine

Yellow Journalism was...

• acurate

• exxagerated

• factual

• nonfiction

In the late 1800's, what country occupied Cuba

• Spain

• Panama

• USA

• Cuba

The Maine, Protecting American businesses, and to show American power were all reasons

• That the Panama Canal was built

• That the USA declared war on Germany

• That the USA declared war on Panama

• That the USA declared war on Spain

People died mostly from ___________in the Spanish America War?

• explosions

• bayonettes

• bombs

• disease

What territories did we gain after the war in Cuba?

• Philippines & Hawaii

• Guam & Hawaii

• Guam & the Philippines

• All of the above

What territory does the USA no longer control?

• Guam

• Phillipines

• Puerto Rico

• Hawaii

Why was having Hawaii as a territory in the Pacific important?

• military base

• economic interests

• refueling depot

• all of the above

Who controlled the Isthmus of Panama before the Panama Canal was built?

• Spain

• Panama

• Cuba

• Columbia