History 1302 Exam 2

1. All of the following propelled the United States into expansionism EXCEPT:

• The international antislavery movement

• A quest for new foreign markets

• Missionary zeal and the “white man’s burden”

• International competition and power

__________ analyzed the 1890 Census report and came up with the Frontier Thesis, which he believe is what make Americans “American.” He also concluded that the U.S. is no longer a frontier therefore justify the idea of imperialist expansionism.

• Mahan

• Turner

• Weyler

• Upton Sinclair

1. __________ was obtained/bought from the Russians in 1867 that was originally though to be worthless until the discovery of gold.

• Philippines

• Hawaii

• Cuba

• Alaska

The sugar planter who orchestrated a coup for American to gain control of and annex Hawaii was _________.

• Lili’uokalani

• Alaska

• Weyler

• De Lome

1. ___________ was a Spanish general who established the Reconcentration Policy in Cuba to weed out the revolutionaries and eliminated guerrilla warfare.

• De Lome

• Mahan

• Weyler

• Turner

One of the causes of the Spanish-American War was a newspaper war in New York between Hearst and Pulitzer.

• True

• False

The _____________ was an honest assessment on the condition of Cubans in Cuba that concluded that America should be get involved for humanitarian reasons.

• Teller Amendment

• Treaty of Cuba

• Hay-Herran Treaty

• Calhoun Report

After McKinley first meeting with _________, where McKinley hinted the Spanish to give the Cubans autonomy or else, a letter that insulted McKinley was sent, obtained by Cuban revolutionaries, and published by Hearst.

• De Lome

• Alaska

• Turner

• Weyler

The cause of the explosion of the Maine was found to be accidental and was known by the navy as early as 1898.

• True

• False

Attached to the declaration of war against Spain in 1898 was the ___________, which stated that the United States has no intention of obtaining Cuba.

• Platt Amendment

• Underwood Tariff

• 16th Amendment

• Teller Amendment