CFA q2 review

What is imperialism?

• When one country takes over another country

• When one country is allies with another country

• When one country is at war with another country

• all of these options

Noninvolvement in world affairs is...

• expansionism

• isolationism

• imperialism

• annexation

The explosion of the USS Maine

• proved that McKinley was a weak president

• rallied Americans against Spain

• caused American prejudice about Spanish immigrants

• formed a bond between America and Cuba

Theodore Roosevelt:

• senator from New York

• strong leader with an aggressive foreign policy

• hero of the Civil War

• heroic soldier, and only president to die in battle

What US president was famous for his usage of dollar diplomacy?

• Taft

• Roosevelt

• Hay

• Wilson

What is the "White Man's Burden"?

• A belief in "cultural superiority"

• A philosophy related to Manifest Destiny

• Taft's foreign policy approach

• A belief in white privilege

Which president said “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” The U.S. Navy is the “big stick” he is referring to.

• Woodrow Wilson

• William H. Taft

• Teddy Roosevelt

Sensational headlines, developed during the Spanish-American War

• Muckraking

• Yellow Journalism

• Clickbait

All the following were reasons for US imperialism except:

• develop better technique for creating railroads

• need for more natural resources

• need for new markets to sell goods

• fear of running out of land to settle

US interactions with Latin America during the early twentieth century were most directly influenced by which of the following concepts?

• laissez-faire economics

• social darwinism

• self-determination

• progressivism