American Imperialism & WW I

This map shows the importance of the _____________________ in reducing time and costs in shipping from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

• Suez Canal

• Erie Canal

• Panama Canal

• Latin American Canal

What event gave the US more new territories than any other event during our Age of Imperialism?

• The Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

• The winning of the Spanish American War

• The Open Door Policy

• Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy?

This political cartoon can be associated with which American Imperialist doctrine

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Open Door Policy

• Spanish American War

Which president was more moderate in dealing with Latin America with his "Dollar Diplomacy"?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William McKinely

• Woodrow Wilson

• William H. Taft

When a stronger nation takes over a weaker nation for economic and or political purposes that nation is partaking in ____________________?

• Imperialism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Nationalism

Which of the following reasons was the least correct in explaining why America became an imperialist nation?

• Americans only wanted to help the underprivileged Native peoples of the territories we took over

• Americans were looking for new markets to sell their products

• The US Navy needed refueling stations (ports) throughout the Pacific

• Manifest Destiny now meant the US was going to expand outside the continental USA.

What was the main cause of World War I?

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• The Zimmerman Telegram

• Secret Alliances

• The sinking of the Lusitania

This poster exemplifies America's foreign policy at the outset of World War. What was America's foreign policy at the outset of World War I?

• Isolationism

• Collective Security

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

When America entered World War I which president stated that the USA was entering the war "to keep the world safe for democracy."?

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

What is the purpose of this propaganda poster?

• To get Americans to conserve water

• to enlist in the army to defeat the Germans

• to get Americans to help pay for the war

• None of the above