Checkpoint 4: Spanish American War

What  happened on February 17, 1898 that upset many Americans?

• Theodore Roosevelt became president.
• The USS Maine was sunk near Cuba.
• Upton Sinclair published a book called The Jungle
• The transcontinental railroad was built.

What name was given to exaggerated stories written to sell newspapers?

• yellow ink
• whale of a story
• yellow journalism
• pink journalism

What idea or belief states that Americans have a God-given right to expand west?

• Manifest Destiny
• Imperialism
• Isolationism
• Democracy

Why did the American people care about the way the Cuban people were being treated by Spain?

• They were afraid Spain would invade the U.S.
• Many Americans had businesses in Cuba
• Americans disliked Spain
• Americans wanted to colonize Cuba

What word means taking over foreign countries and ruling them to gain power?

• isolationism
• Manifest Destiny
• imperialism
• free enterprise

Who was the Secretary of the Navy that resigned his position to go fight in the Spanish-American War with a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders?

• Alfred Thayer
• Walter Reed
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William McKinley

During his re-election campaign, President William McKinley used posters to help justify the U.S. government actions during, and following the Spanish-American war.

• True 
• False

Who led the Rough Riders?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John D. Rockefeller

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What happened to Cuba after the Spanish-American War?

• Cuba became an independent country.

• Cuba remained a Spanish colony.

• Cuba became a United States colony.

• Cuba became European Country.

What did Spain surrender to the United States after the Spanish-American War?

• Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam

• Cuba, Philippines, and Guam

• Puerto Rico, Portugal, and Guam

• Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Hawaii