USH Skills Checks Units 6-10

This cartoon reflects the period from 1898 to 1900. It suggests that the United States was primarily interested in:

• increasing its empire

• improving living standards in poor areas of the world

• establishing democracies in other countries

• forming a world peace organization

“It is impossible that we should extend their political system to any portion of without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference."
-President James Monroe     December 2, 1823

President Monroe's words would help to propel the United States to War over 70 years later in

• World War I.

• World War II.

• the Mexican War.

• the Spanish-American War.

Read the headlines below and answer the question that follows.

• US Annexes Hawaii

• US Begins War with Spain

• US Gains Control of Panama Canal
  

What political trend is reflected in these headlines? 

• democracy

• capitalism

• republicanism

• imperialism

The developments referenced by this image most directly contributed to United States involvement in

• competition with Russia in opening trade with Japan

• the suppression of an independence movement in the Philippines

• acquisition of territory from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• an international monetary system that supported free trade between nations

A goal of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy and President William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy policy toward Latin America was to

• join Western Hemisphere nations in a military alliance

• protect American economic and political interests

• encourage foreign nations to establish colonies

• raise Latin America’s standard of living

How does the formation of the Panama Canal demonstrate the Roosevelt Corollary? 

• The United States used its military resources to ensure political stability in Cuba

• Colombia automatically gave America the rights to build and manage the canal

• The United States flexed its power of intervention through Panama’s revolution

• Roosevelt accurately foresaw the necessity of a canal at the Panama isthmus

Who represents the list below?

• Incursion into Mexico

• Demand for Neutrality in WWI

• “Fourteen Points”

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Calvin Coolidge

• Theodore Roosevelt

“Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in

war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.”
     Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Speech, 1918

President Wilson is referring specifically to 

• the attack on Pearl Harbor

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• the sinking of the Titanic

• Italian dominance in the Mediterranean

This poster was used during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to

• Convince men to enlist in the military services

• Help pay for the war effort

• Support membership in the League of Nations

• Emphasize the goals of the Fourteen Points

Which pair of events illustrates an accurate cause-and-effect relationship? 

• Sacco and Vanzetti trial →  ratification of the woman suffrage amendment

• rebirth of the KKK → formation of the Populist Party

• Red Scare → demand for limits on immigration

• high food prices → start of the Great Depression