American Imperialism Unit Exam

What is the definition of Imperialism?

• Having a strong military

• A stronger/ bigger country taking over a weaker / developing country

• Consistent trade with a country

• Using persuasion to steal from other countries

1. As a result of improvements made in technology during the 2nd Industrial Revolution technological advances, countries started to expand their territories.  The United States wanting to compete with other advanced nations began to follow this practice of              (                            ).  A strong country taking over a weaker country. 

• Imperialism

• Peace

• Latin America

• Buffalo Soldiers

 Imperialism is often identified with the 3Gs which stands for 

• Gold, Grievences , and God

• Gratitude, Grace and Greed

• Gold, Glory, and God

• Gold,Grace and Glory

• ___________________, represents the RESOURCES from territories they would take over.

• Glory

• Gold

• God

• Manifest Destiny

• ,__________represents NATIONAL PRIDE and the increase in the nations standing as a WORLD POWER.

• Glory

• Gold

• God

• Manifest Destiny

• ______________, the RELIGOUS and CULTURAL BELIEF that their way of life was better than that of their imperial subjects.

• Glory

• Gold

• God

• Manifest Destiny

American foreign expansion however began with the purchase of

(                                      )   from Russia in 1866.

• Greenland
• Alaska
• Puerto Rico
• Hawaii

 When the United States began the process of annexing(                      ) because of its strategic location in the Pacific Ocean the kingdom’s  last monarch,              

  (                            ), did everything she could to oppose it and fight for the                     (                     ) of her people.

• Alaska,Princess Diana,Oppression

• America,Princess Trump, Conquest

• Egypt, King Tut, independence

• Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, freedom

During the (               ) many of the(                         )  the all black military unit that rose to fame during Westward  Expansion were discriminated against because of their         (                          ).

• Revolutionary War, The Patriots, Nationality

• Civil War, Confederates, gender

• Spanish American War, Rough Riders, race

• Spanish American War, Buffalo Soldiers, race

After the defeat of Spain in the (                      ), they SIGNED a (                    ) to mark the end of the war the rise of the United States as a world power.

• CIVIL WAR, NEGOTIATION

• REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AGREEMENT

• SPANISH AMERICAN WAR ,TREATY

• SPANISH AMERICAN WAR, TARRIF