4-2 Quiz (American Imperialism 1)

What is the takeover of weaker nations by stronger nations called?

• Imperialism

• Defense

• Free Market

• Nationalism

American planters living in what area overthrew the local government and subsequently requested annexation to the United States?

• Cuba

• Nicaragua

• Hawaii

• Philippines

Industrialists supported U.S. imperialism because they were interested in finding new:

• defenses.

• markets.

• imperialism.

• allies.

This term is used to describe a type of sensational journalism that was popular in the late 1800s.

• Yellow Journalism

• tabloids

• broadcast Journalism

• Trade Journalism

In 1898, the United States declared war on:

• Spain

• Cuba

• Philippines

• Mexico

As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired control over all of the following territories EXCEPT:

• Puerto Rico

• Cuba

• Mexico

• Philippines

Which country was granted independence in the Treaty of Paris of 1898 at the end of the Spanish American War?

• Guam
• Cuba
• Philippines 
• Puerto Rico

Alfred T. Mahan argued:

• to become an empire, the US needed to acquire naval bases and strengthen its naval power
• the burden of the white man is to support and uplift non-whites
• imperialism was not democratic and engaging in it would be hypocritical
• the nation's economic needs could be satisfied from within as the US should avoid risking itself in foreign entanglements

Why did America annex Hawaii in 1898?

• Beautiful beaches

• Sugar Cane plantations

• It's location in the Pacific Ocean

• Tourism benifits

What territories did the US gain as a result of its victory over Spain in the Spanish-American War?

• Philippines, Puerto Rico, Panama

• Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba

• Puerto Rico, Panama, Haiti