AR 18a: Progressivism

The Spanish-American War was long and costly for the United States

• True

• False

Spain had allowed Cuba to suffer from exploitation and poor government.

• True

• False

Who was the army doctor who identified the source of yellow fever?

• Walter Reed
• John Snow
• Louis Pasteur
• Edward Jenner

Who was the army engineer who battled mosquitos in Cuba's swamps?

• Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
• William Gorgas

• Captain John Smith
• General William Sherman

Who charged up San Juan Hill with his men, Rough Riders?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• George Washington
• Ulysses S. Grant

Who fought for independence for the Philippines?

• Emilio Aguinaldo

• Lapu-Lapu
• Emilio Estevez
• Ferdinand Magellan

What word denotes America's policy of stating out of world politics during most of the 19th century?

• interventionism
• expansionism
• neutrality
• isolationism

Americans forced Queen Liliuokalani out of power in 1893 and thus paved the way for the United Stated to annex what and in 1898?

• Guam
• Puerto Rico
• Alaska
• Hawaii

What word refers to the acquisition of foreign lands to be used for the benefit of the acquiring country?

• colonialism
• imperialism
• expansionism
• nationalism

The Spanish minister of the United Stated criticized which American president in a private letter that came to national attention

• George Washington
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln