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