Imperialism, S/A War and TR's Foreign Policy

The taking over of land to build an empire is called

• isolationism

• imperialism

• industrialization

• immigration

The political cartoon suggests Americans needed to engage in imperialism because

• European powers were going to take over all the land.

• we needed money

• we needed to spread religion

The U.S. purchased Alaska from what country in 1867?

• Italy

• Rumania

• Russia

• Spain

The U.S. annexed this group of islands in the Pacific in 1898. We already had a naval base there called Pearl Harbor.

• Hawaii

• Samoa

• Cuba

What European country owned Cuba in the 1800s?

• Britain

• France

• Spain

• Italy

One reason Americans wanted to help Cubans was because

• the yellow press made Americans feel sympathy for them

• religious leaders made Americans want to Christianize them

• the desire of the navy to have a base there to fight from

What US battleship exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba in 1898?

• The USS North Carolina

• The USS Maine

• The USS Arizona

The De Lome letter was very critical of which U.S. president?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William McKinley

• John D Rockefeller

• William Marcy Tweed

The Spanish American War was fought in what year?

• 1890

• 1896

• 1898

• 1900

Teddy Roosevelt was a member of what volunteer group of soldiers during the Spanish American War?

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• The 20th Maine

• The Rough Riders

• The Screaming Eagles