US3 - Imperialism

Immediately following the United States Civil War, what were Americans focused on?

• Reconstruction

• Imperialism

• Anglo-Saxonsim

• Social Darwinism

Foreign pressure from European nations lead to the American desire for

• cultural, economic and political superiority

• isolationism, separation and higher tariffs

• war with Spain in Europe

• reconstruction

Expansion in the late 1800s was known as

• New Imperialism

• New Immigration

• Isolationism

• Anglo-Saxonism

Imperialism is when _____________________________.

• powerful nations dominate weaker ones

• a country builds a complex network of railroads to enhance economy

• countries close their borders to foreign trade

• a country seizes natural resources within its own territory

Industrial nations turned to less developed nations for trade because

• higher tariffs on trade between rival countries made new markets necessary

• ongoing wars between the US and Europe made trade impossible

• they wanted to help poorer countries succeed for philanthropic reasons

• Thomas Jefferson invented the light bulb

When a country is allowed to mostly govern itself with the understanding that it is to be protected and guided by a more powerful country, it is a __________________.

• protectorate

• colony

• direct ruled territory

• all options are true

America realized it needed to expand because

• European powers were expanding their control through imperialism and the US was under threat to be left behind

• it ran out of land in California to settle

• it had a large navy with nothing to use it for after the end of the Spanish American war

• Queen Lilioukalani was refusing American rule

The idea that only the strongest country would survive during the Imperialism Era is known as

• Social Darwinism

• Social Marxism

• Critical Socialism

• Anglo-Saxonism

Americans thought it was their destiny to expand overseas and spread their culture and power due to

• Anglo-Saxonism

• Social Darwinism

• Marxism

• True Capitalism

Americans were at risk of being blocked out of the world trade market if

• they didn't expand their navy

• they didn't take the Philippines from France in the western hemisphere

• they allowed their army to stay in Latin America for another decade

• they didn't remove Emilio Aguinaldo from power in Hawaii