Becoming a World Power Quiz

A country that is technically independent but is actually under the control of another country.

• Protectorate

• Yellow Journalism

• Anglo-Saxonism

• Open Door Policy

Idea that the English speaking nations of the world were superior to others.

• Anglo-Saxonism
• Yellow Journalism

• Jingoism

• Roosevelt Corollary

U.S. commodore who was ordered to take a naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a trade treaty.

• Matthew C. Perry
• William Randolph Hearst

• Henry Cabot Lodge

• Teddy Roosevelt

Mix of cowboys, miners, and law officers led by Teddy Roosevelt, on horseback, during the Battle of San Juan hill.

• Rough Riders
• Imperialism

• Great White Fleet

• Anglo-Saxonism

New York journalist who owned the New York World and described Cuba as a place with “blood on the roadsides”.

• Joseph Pulitzer
• Alfred T. Mahan

• Henry Cabot Lodge

• Matthew C. Perry

U.S. policy toward China in which all countries would have access to China’s consumers and resources.

• Open Door Policy
• Jingoism

• Rough Riders

• Dollar Diplomacy

Ascended the Hawaiian throne in 1891 and established a new constitution that would have reasserted her authority.

• Queen Liliuokalani
• Queen Lodge

• Queen Elizabeth

• Queen Sofia

War fought by Americans and Cubans against Spain; a.k.a. a “splendid little war”.

• Spanish-American War
• World War War

• Philippian War

• Revolutionary War

Roosevelt’s 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which he asserted the right of the U.S. to intervene in Latin American nations.

• Roosevelt Corollary
• Dollar Diplomacy

• Imperialism

• Platt Amendment

A force of U.S. Navy ships that undertook a world cruise in 1907.

• Great White Fleet
• USS Maine

• Imperialism

• Rough Rider