Chapter Becoming a World Power

4. What do many historians believe caused the Maine to explode? (5-3.5) *

• A gas leak
• Spain bombed the ship
• France bombed the ship
• It was a hoax

5. Why did President Roosevelt want to build the Panama Canal (5-3.5)? *

• The people of Panama asked the U.S. to build it
• It would allow commerical and war ships to travel from Atlantic to Pacific more quickly
• The French insisted that it was easy
• It was a challenge made by the United States

6. What is Manifest Destiny? (5-3.5

• Exaggerated form of reporting
• Improving the lives of the disadvantaged
• Belief that the United States should expand
• A company that has control of an entire industry

7. The United States began to grow as a world power as a result of the Spanish-American War because it *

• Increased military spending
• Gained new territories
• Signed a treaty with Mexico
• Built its industries

8. What type of writing, that greatly exaggerates and makes something sound much worse or better than it really is, helped promote the idea that America needed to declare war on Spain? *

• Expose
• Yellow Journalism
• Fiction
• Folktale

William Seward purchased which piece of land from Russia for $7.2 million.

• Alaska

• South America

• New York

• Utah

Powerful countries seeking to control the economic & political affairs of weaker countries.

• Dictatorship

• Imperialism

• Expansionism

• Sectionalism

This secret society led a rebellion to rid China of "foreign devils."

• Boxer Rebellion

• WW I

• Civil War

• Get Out Rebellion

These sensational stories were often biased or untrue.

• Muckrakers

• National Enquirer

• Tabloids

• Yellow Journalism

Cuba was rebelling against which country?

• United States

• Spain

• Italy

• France