Chapter 10 Test, 5th grade, BJU

The Panama Canal opened in 1914 and connected the Caribbean Sea with which ocean?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

The execution of a strategy to illegally seize political power in a sudden way

• Annex

• Conservation

• Referendum

• Coup

The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in 1898 to oppose the annexation of

• The Philippines

• Santiago

• The United States

• Australia

List TWO events that led to the Spanish American War

Answer explanation

Enrique Dupuy de Lome insulted McKinley. *I will accept "Enrique" or "deLome" if you cannot remember his full name.

The USS Maine exploded in Havana.

Congress declared that the US should help Cuba.

What is the word that is used to describe "adding an area to an existing country"?

• Commercial

• Annex

• Conservation

• Trust Busting

The biggest debatable issue for the election of 1898 was

• Free silver

• The Spanish-American War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Extra gold

What do we call "sensationalized news reporting"?

• Trust Busting

• Jim Crow Laws

• Yellow Journalism

• Free Elections

A means of removing an elected official from office by popular vote is called what?

• an initiative

• a recall

• a referendum

• a conservation

During the Spanish-American War, the Americans trapped the Spanish fleet in the harbor of

• Santiago

• The Philippines

• The United States

• Australia

When the government breaks up business trusts or monopolies, it is called

• A referendum

• Trust busting

• a coup

• an initiative