Realism or Idealism?

Idealism

• you believed that you were protecting your own needs and security.

• you were motivated by the desire to help others.

Realism

• your decision-making process was guided by morals and ethics.

• you were motivated by self-interest.

Idealism

• you believed that you were acting in the best interest of your family and community.

• your decision-making process was guided by reason and rationality.

To which country did Commodore Matthew Perry bring his famous gunboats?

• China

• Mexico

• Japan

• Hawaii

Commodore Matthew Perry's mission was driven MOSTLY by:

• Idealism

• Realism

Why did the U.S. acquire Samoa in the 1870s? (choose all correct answers)

• To spread democracy

• To gain a military base in the Pacific

• The desire to extend U.S. economic and diplomatic

  influence

• The desire to protect Samoa

Manifest Destiny:

• Is the idea that the United States was meant to spread its founding ideals and democratic way of life across the continent and beyondWas

• Is when the U.S. warned European powers against future colonization in the Western Hemisphere or interference in Latin American republics