Homework Check 5.1

Match the following

• Imperialism

• the idea that English-speaking nations were superior to other nations

• Pan-Americanism

• the idea that Latin America and the United States should work together

• Alfred T. Mahan

• the economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker nations

• Anglo-Saxonism

• took a naval expedition to Japan in order to negotiate a trade treaty

• Matthew C. Perry

• helped build public support for a strong navy

Economic and military competion from _________________ helped to convince many Americans that the United States should become a world power.

• Canada

• Latin America

• China

• Europe

John Fiske, a historian in the late 1800s, argued that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government.  His ideas convinced many Americans

• that the United States needed to build a large, modern navy.

• to support the annexation of Hawaii.

• to support the expansion of American civilization.

• that the United States should be dominant in the Western Hemisphere.

In the 1880s, Secretary of State James G. Blaine led efforts to

• expand American influence into Latin America.

• increase support for American expansion.

• overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy.

• open trade between Japan and the United States.

The Commercial Bureau of the American Republics was formed in order to promote

• widespread use of the United States dollar in Latin America.

• limits on trade with European nations.

• cooperation among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.

• democracy in the Western Hemisphere.