Becoming a World Power

Imperialism is

• Investigative journalism

• Creating empires by dominating weaker nations or colonies

• Overproduction of goods and services

• The main cause of a rebellion

What was Roosevelt's unit in Cuba called

• TR's Group

• Teddy's Bears

• The Misfits

• Rough Riders

Describe how the United States acquired Hawaii. 

• The U.S government won Hawaii in a battle with Japan

• U.S. won a war with Spain and Spain sold Hawaii for $7million to the U.S.

• After Queen Liliuokalani died the U.S. purchased Hawaii for 20 million dollars

• U.S. Overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and became a U.S. territory in 1898

Prior to the Spanish-Am. War, who did many Americans blame for the explosion of the USS Maine?

• Cuba

• the Philiippines

• Spain

• Japan

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Exaggerated form of reporting

• Belief that the United States should expand

• Improving the lives of the disadvantaged

• A company that has control of an entire industry

What type of writing, that greatly exaggerates and makes something sound much worse or better than it really is, helped promote the idea that America needed to declare war on Spain? 

• Expose

• Fiction

• Yellow Journalism

• Folktale

Cuba was rebelling against which country?

• United States

• Italy

• Spain

• France

The U.S. became involved in the Spanish-American War as a result of which event?

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Sinking of the Battleship Maine

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Midway

The Open Door Policy stated that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with which country?

• 
  Mexico

• Cuba

• Japan

• China

How did Theodore Roosevelt sum up his foreign policy?

• "The policy of imperialism is hostile to liberty."

• "Treat all people as if they were Americans."

• "Attack anyone who stands in the way."

• "Speak softly and carry a big stick."