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USHC 5 Spanish-American War to Panama Canal

Authored by Craig Martin

Social Studies

9th - 12th Grade

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USHC 5 Spanish-American War to Panama Canal
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Anti-Imperialist

Reason for U.S. imperialism

Yellow Journalism

Twisting the truth in order to sell more newspapers

USS Maine

Event in the port of Havana which influenced the U.S. to go to war with Spain

Made the United States a Imperial Power

Results of the Spanish American War

Desire for New Markets

"I am against having the eagle put it talons into any other land."

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Mark Twain and William Jennings Bryan

Reasons leading to Spanish American War

Maine, Yellow Journal, Humanitarianism

Results of the Spanish American War

Gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines

Tortured Cuban Revolutionaries

Pulitzer and Hearst

Yellow Journalists

General Weyler

Anti Imperialist

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Hawaiian Planters Urge American Annexation"

"U.S. and Germany Negotiate for Control of the Samoan Islands"

"US. Gains Control of Wake Island and Guam"

 Which conclusion can best be drawn from these headlines?

 

The Anti-Imperialist League strongly influenced Congress.

Respect for native cultures motivated United States foreign policy.

Construction of a railroad to Alaska was a major policy goal.

United States territorial expansion increased in the Pacific Ocean.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the world's perception of the United States change following the Spanish American War?

Changed from a country that supported liberty and freedom to an imperial power.

Changed from a country that supported socialism and communism to democracy

No change whatsoever

Changed from a country that was feared to a country that was welcomed.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The United States gained large territories from SPAIN during the Spanish American War. Who was the president during this time?

Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Barack Obama

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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US occupation of foreign territories does not entitle people to Constitutional rights as US citizens. This concept was established in what court cases?

Insular

Marbury

Imperialism

San Juan

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

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Monroe Doctrine is...

encouraging Europeans from taking the sugar trade

forcing countries to trade with Canada

Preventing European nations from entering and taking over Latin America

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