Unit 4 - Growing World Power Review

Policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.

• Imperialism
• Globalization
• Nationalism
• Colonialism

What were the three factors that drove American imperialism?

• military strength

• new markets

• cultural superiority

• Spanish-American War

In order to compete with the growing military might of countries around the world, Admiral __________________ urged the government to build up the U.S. navy.

• Alfred T. Mahan

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Sanford P. Dole

• William McKinley

Extremely lucrative and very large farms established by American settlers in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

• sugar plantations

• pineapple orchards

• prune groves

• Cherry pits

American plantation owners staged a revolution and set up a government headed by Sanford P. Dole on which island and where is it located on a map.

• Hawaii

  Pacific Ocean

• Jamaica

  Carribean

• Cuba

  Carribean

• Quam

  Pacific Ocean

A form of journalism that greatly exaggerates and sensationalizes the news in order to boost sales and persuade its audience to one point of view or another.

• propaganda
• tabloid journalism
• fake news
• yellow journalism

Letter written by a Spanish minister in the U.S. that criticized U.S. President William McKinley. The letter was stolen and published in the New York Journal and caused anger and resentment towards the Spanish to increase in the U.S.

• Spanish Journal
• U.S. Minister's note
• De Lôme letter
• McKinley letter

U.S. ship that suddenly and unexpectedly exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. The explosion caused an uproar in the U.S. and a rapid declaration of war against Spain.

• USS Missouri
• USS Arizona
• USS Texas
• USS Maine

What year did the Spanish-American war start and end?

• 1904
• 1876
• 1912
• 1898

An American victory in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, which was one of the most significant battles of the war and earned future president Theodore Roosevelt the title "the hero of San Juan Hill."

• Battle of Santiago de Cuba
• Battle of Guantánamo Bay
• Battle of Manila Bay
• Battle of San Juan Hill