Acquiring and Managing Global Power Chapter Assessment

In 1899, the United States urged other nations to allow free trade in ​ (a)   . This approach to dealing with China was known as the​ (b)   .

• China
• Open Door Policy
• Japan
• Spain
• Spanish American War
• Dollar Diplomacy

Examine the flowchart of events in Hawaiian history below. Which of the following events belongs in the box with the question mark?

• The United States helps overthrow Queen Liliuokalani.

• Queen Liliuokalani agrees to make Hawaii a republic.

• Queen Liliuokalani petitions the U.S. government for protectorate status.

• Native Hawaiians remove Queen Liliuokalani from power.

Why did the United States support Panama's rebellion against Colombia?

• to protect American farmers in Panama

• to annex Panama as an American territory

• to build an American-owned canal across Panama

• to promote American investments in Panama

The current status of the island of Puerto Rico. ​ (a)   ​

• It is a commonwealth of the United States
• It is an independent nation
• It is one of the states in the United States

Match the following foreign policies to each correct president.

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Big Stick Policy

• William Howard Taft

• Moral Diplomacy

• Woodrow Wilson

William Howard Taft's foreign policy goal was to ​ (a)   U.S. ​power by strengthening its ​ (b)   abroad.

• increase
• economy
• decrease
• military

President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy focused on

• working quietly and patiently in oversea affairs, but using force.

• encouraging trade and investment in Latin American and Asia.

• using warfare to conquer most of the land in Latin American and Asia.

• taking a moral approach by promoting democratic ideals abroad.

What provoked war between the United States and the Philippines in 1899?

• The Philippines attempted to become allies with France and England to fight against the United States

• The United States refused to export their goods to the Philippines to weaken the Filipinos' economy.

• The Philippines had sided and fought with the Spanish during the Spanish-American war.

• The United States would not grant the Philippines independence after the Spanish-American war.

Analyze the map. The route chosen for the Panama Canal took advantage of-

• natural wind patterns that would assist ships.

• natural passes created by mountains.

• natural currents from the oceans.

• natural waterways such as lakes and rivers.

Read the excerpt below from a major Congressional address President Theodore Roosevelt made in 1904.

“… and in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police. A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil”

This statement become known as the __________.

• Big Stick Policy

• Open Door Policy

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary