Imperialsim

What type of policy did the United States adapt to establish trade with China?

• Open Door

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Moral Diplomacy

What are three reasons the U.S. wanted expansion?

• trade/tariffs

• investments

• increase agriculture

• needed raw materials

Which of these is a factor that contributed to the growth of American imperialism in the late 1800s?

• curiosity about other cultures

• end trade with the nations of Europe

• the end of the Civil War

• desire for new markets for American goods

Which method was successfully used by some newspapers to gain support for the war against Spain?

• muckrakers

• spheres of influence

• Nationalism

• yellow journalism

What was the purpose of the Open Door policy in China?

• ended the Boxer rebellion

• to gain a leasehold in China

• establish a sphere of influence

• ensure trading rights for all nations.

What were the effects of the Spanish American War? Check all that apply

• Cuba became independent but with strings attached

• The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines

• Americans debated the morality and wisdom of becoming an imperial nation

• The U.S. fought a three year war to secure control over the Phillipines

The idea behind Social Darwinism is?

• a belief in the destiny of your nation to rule over others who might be considered less than

• a belief that only strong nations will survive and the weaker ones will not

• that the richest nations need to take care of those who are not as strong for a better global economy

• that each nations has to take care of its own people and leave the other nations alone

In the late 1800s, support grew in the United States for building a large modern navy to

• protect the United States from invasion

• conquer Latin American countries

• conquer the islands of the Pacific

• avoid being shut out of foreign markets

Why did President McKinley send the battleship USS Maine to Havana in 1898?

• to protect American citizens and interests, if necessary

• to put down riots by Spanish loyalists

• to put down the Cuban rebellion

• to negotiate peace with Spain

America’s control of certain Latin American countries and Pacific islands after the Spanish American War, and their quest for global competition with other European powers for economic and military superiority is an example of ______.

• Monroe Doctrine

• Moral Diplomacy

• Imperialism

• Roosevelt Corollary