History A Unit 12

Which ideology stated that the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American nations as an "international police power"?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Wilson's Moral Diplomacy

• Taft's Dollar Diplomacy

According to the US government, what was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• Give Chinese workers a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.

• Give Hispanics a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.

• Give Native Americans a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.

• Give African Americans a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.

What was the purpose of the Open-Door Policy towards China?

• Only European nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China’s territorial integrity would be respected.

• Only the US would have trading rights in China.

• Only Asian nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China’s territorial integrity would be respected.

• All nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China's territorial integrity would be respected.

Why did African Americans flee the South after the Civil War?

• To participate in the mining of gold in the North

• Escape the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws

• Better educational opportunities in the West

• To become sharecroppers

Where did the American Indian Wars end?

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Cluster’s Last Stand

• Battle of the Black Hills

• Fetterman Massacre

Theodore Roosevelt often quoted an old proverb, "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”. How did he mean by the ‘big stick’?

• Peace treaties

• Sharing of cultural attributes

• Forced assimilation

• Military intervention

What was considered ‘Seward’s Folly’?

• US purchase of Alaska from Russia

• US purchase of Oregon from Russia

• US purchase of Washington DC

• US purchase of Hawaii

Which concept led Americans to feel the need to bring its ideas to the “savages”?

• Reconstruction

• Industrialism

• Religion

• Social Darwinism

Why did the United States government want to acquire Hawaii?

• For economic control over sugar, whaling, and other products

• For access to all the sandy beaches

• For social control so that the natives could be assimilated

• For political control since the government didn’t think a queen should be allowed to rule

As a contributing cause to the Spanish-American War, what Spanish diplomat wrote a letter that belittled President McKinley and the American people?

• Enrique DeLome

• Pancho Villa

• George Dewey

• Enrique Iglesias