UNIT 3 REVIEW

 The policy of establishing colonies, expanding, and building empires in pursuit of power and profit is called:

• World Security

• IMPERIALISM

• ISOLATIONISM

• INTERVENTIONISM

• Progressivism brought on significant inflation in  

      the U.S. 

• . U.S. interest rates skyrocketed during the early  

       1900s. 

• American territorial expansions became a financial 

      burden for the country. 

• The U.S. experienced a trade surplus as a result of 

       World War I.

Wilson sympathetic towards people who opposed the draft?

• FALSE

• TRUE

How did the United States enter Hawaii?

• Took their people back to the US as slaves

• Created a “provisional government” to remove the Hawaiian Queen and enforce American laws

• Showed Hawaiians how to do business

• Fought a long war to take over Hawaii and add it to the United States

According to the Espionage Act, people could be arrested for all of the following EXCEPT:

• interfering with the draft

• distributing anti-war pamphlets

• criticizing the government efforts at war

• being loyal to your country and supporting the war and draft

From 1914 to 1916, as World War 1 raged in Europe, Americans did not remain neutral mainly because:

• United States membership in military alliances required the nation to fight

• President Woodrow Wilson supported the war aims of Germany and Austria-Hungary

• the warring powers sunk American merchant ships in the Atlantic

• United States newspapers encouraged a policy of imperialist expansion

Who was the main suffragist who advocated for women the right to vote.

• Alice Paul

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What is the meaning of isolationism?

• the practice of building an empire by taking over other nations

• areas of land where foreign nations could control trade and natural resources

• the belief that a country should avoid involvement in the affairs of other countries

 

How did the American newspapers affect U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American War?

• They printed negative stories about Spain so that Americans would support the Cuban rebels

• They bribed the Cuban government in order to set up their newspapers in Cuban cities

• They printed sympathetic articles about the Cuban rebels in order to persuade them to move to the United States

Why did Queen Lilioukalani present a new constitution to the Hawaiian government?

• To punish the sugarcane plantation owners

• To give the Hawaiians more power in their government

• Queen Liliuokalani wanted to establish naval dominance in the area