Unit 6: Entering the World Stage PRACTICE Test

By the late 1800s, industrialized Western nations such as Great Britain, France, and Germany looked to Africa, Asia, and Latin America for new customers, places to invest, and

• workers.

• capital.

• raw materials.

• ideas.

In the late 1800s, what motivated the United States to claim territories abroad?

• The United States believed it had much to learn from studying the way other countries handled production and distribution of goods.

• Americans wanted to learn about other religious faiths.

• The United States was eager to find new markets and military advantages.

• Americans wanted to find restful destinations where nothing was polluted.

Two popular ideologies contributed to imperialism: a sense of nationalism and

• a belief in democracy.

• a spirit of cooperation.

• a belief in transcendentalism.

• a feeling of cultural superiority.

Social Darwinism encouraged people in industrialized nations to believe that

• they were superior to people who lived in less-developed countries.

• they were inferior to people who lived in less-developed nations.

• evolution impacted the culture of a nation’s inhabitants as much as it did the adaptation of species.

• economic soundness resulted from cooperating with and showing respect for other nations.

In the late 1800s, American expansionists were interested in Hawaii as a potential

• tourist attraction.

• fiftieth state.

• coaling station and naval base.

• fishing site.

Why did King Kalakaua give Pearl Harbor to the United States?

• U.S. control of Pearl Harbor was guaranteed by the Cook Treaty.

• The Hawaiian League forced him to sign the bayonet constitution.

• He was happy to give Americans more political control.

• He wanted to create a place for U.S. warships to resupply.

What role did the U.S. minister to Hawaii, John L. Stevens, play in the creation of the Republic of Hawaii?

• He supported the planters who rebelled against the queen.

• He tried to support the queen, but his efforts were not successful.

• He opposed Sanford B. Dole.

• He fought the U.S. Marines’ takeover of the royal palace.

Which of the following best completes the diagram?

• Missionaries leave for Hawaii.

• No decision on annexation is made until William McKinley becomes U.S. president.

• An 1875 treaty boosts the sugar industry.

• The United States grows sugar cane in Hawaii.

U.S. Secretary of State John Hay proposed the Open Door Policy in China in opposition to

• Japanese threats.

• European spheres of influence.

• the Boxer rebellion.

• the Russo-Japanese War.

The United States gained trading rights in China by

• supporting the Boxer Rebellion.

• having a successful meeting with the “Society of Righteous and Harmful Fists.”

• securing a large sphere of influence around Guangzhou.

• sending notes to European nations and Japan that recommended all nations have equal trading rights in China.