AMERICAN IMPERIALISM DOL

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

What group was mainly interested in annexing Hawaii to the U.S.?

• Hawaiian sugar cane planters

• Hawaiian native people

• European imperialists

• U.S. citizens

What ship exploded and forced the U.S. to go to war against Spain for Cuban independence?

• USS Maryland

• USS Mexico

• USS Maine

• USS Manhattan

Reasons for the Spanish American War? (pick three)

• Yellow Journalism

• Failure of the U.S. government

• Sinking of the U.S.S Maine.

• To protect businesses interests in Cuba

What was Roosevelt's foreign policy called?

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Sphere of Influence

• Pan-Americanism

What pushed the US government to go to war with Spain in 1898?

• the sinking of the USS Maine

• Spanish attacks on American businesses

• Cuban requests for aid

• yellow journalism that riled up the American public

As a result of the Spanish- American War, the US became a political power in

• The Hawaiian Islands

• Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

• Samoa

• Panama