US Imperialism Quiz

Which was NOT a part of the US "Open Door Policy" in China?

• No nation would keep other nations from trading in an area of China they controlled.

• All import and export taxes belonged to the Chinese government.

• No nation could ask for discriminatory transport fees in an area of China it controlled.

• China would be controlled as a colony of the Spheres of Influence after the Boxer Rebellion.

Which reason for US involvement in Cuba is an example of Moral Diplomacy?

• Aid to Cuban Revolutionaries

• Protecting US Economic Interests

• Yellow Journalism

• Response to the Sinking of the USS Maine

Why did Ulises Heureaux accumulate debt in the Dominican Republic?

• War with Spain and lack of natural resources

• Corruption and investment in moderization

• US assuming Dominican import duties and Taft's Dollar Diplomacy

• Communist policies and extravagant spending

In which country did Woodrow Wilson install a US military government for 8 years?

• Puerto Rico

• Cuba

• Dominican Republic

• The Philippines

Which US president said "Latin American and Caribbean countries need not fear intervention if they know how to act with decency. But if they show brutal wrong-doing or weakness which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, they must expect intervention by a civilized nation and American would not hesitate to step in."

• William McKinley

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William H. Taft

Which term is best represented with the phrase "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

• Yellow Journalism

• Isolationism

Which was NOT a territory gained by the US as a result of the Spanish American War?

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

• The Philippines

• Guam

What are 2 of the investments the US made in Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War?

• Programs to control malaria and yellow fever

• Development of the Panama Canal

• Supporting a rebellion for Puerto Rican independence

• Repair harbors, build roads, and install irrigation

How did US industrialization lead to America's great military strength in the early 1900s?

• US steel was used to create US warships

• US claimed oil fields in the Middle East.

• The US automobile industry made vehicles for other countries' militaries

• US Railroads carried troops all over the world.

How was the Panama Canal an example of Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy?

• The US forced Colombia to dig the canal

• The US claimed the canal once Cuba had built it.

• The US supported Panama's revolution from Colombia.

• The US destroyed the Panama Canal so no other countries could use it.