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WorksheetsCh 22 Review--Overseas Expansions
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which place is a chain of 8 large and 100 or so smaller islands?
Hawaii
Guam
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Which leader wanted Hawaiians to regain economic control of their islands?
King Kamehameha I
William H. Seward
Queen Liliuokalani
Grover Cleveland
Which incident led to Congress's declaring war on Spain?
arrest of José Martí
Spanish ships in Santiago
capture of San Juan Hill
explosion of the Maine
Whose visit to Japan led to the Treaty of Kanagawa?
William H. Taft
Matthew Perry
John Hay
George Dewey
Out of the Boxer Rebellion came a second
annexation.
Treaty of Portsmouth.
Gentlemen's Agreement.
Open Door policy.
President Theodore Roosevelt helped end the Russo-Japanese War with the (a) .
Who said, "Sea power is essential to the greatness of every splendid people"?
John Hay
Alfred Thayer Mahan
William H. Seward
Theodore Roosevelt
Events in what country triggered the Spanish-American War?
Mexico
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Guam
The United States and which country split Samoa between them?
France
Japan
Germany
Britain
Which rebels helped the Americans capture Manila from the Spanish?
Puerto Ricans
Hawaiians
Filipinos
Cubans
The first action of the Spanish-American War took place in
Cuba
Puerto Rico
the Philippines.
Guam.
For centuries, the people of Cuba lived under the rule of
Mexico.
Spain
Russia
Britain
What agreement set up a new Puerto Rican government in 1900?
the Foraker Act
Platt Amendment
Treaty of Paris
Spanish-American armistice
Whose belief in expansionism led to the building of the Panama Canal?
William H. Seward
Francisco Madero
William Gorgas
Theodore Roosevelt
Noninvolvement in world affairs is called (a)
Panamanians successfully revolted against Colombia with help from
France.
Mexico.
Spain.
the United States.
President Theodore Roosevelt, determined to build the Panama Canal, backed a revolution in Panama. He said “I took the canal zone and let Congress debate,” and later remarked, “and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.”
As expressed in this passage, Roosevelt’s attitude and actions in securing land for the Panama Canal _____ many Latin Americans, some members of Congress, as well as many ordinary Americans.
amused
angered
pleased
disappointed
“[Panama was mostly] a damp, tropical jungle, intensely hot, swarming with mospuitoes......."
The mosquitoes mentioned in this excerpt from an English writer’s description carried the deadly diseases of _____.
smallpox and scarlet fever
influenza and malaria
rickets and diphtheria
yellow fever and malaria
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
This quotation characterizing U.S. foreign policy, often associated with Theodore Roosevelt, is actually _____.
a quotation from the Bible
an old Chinese saying
a traditional African proverb
a famous Greek remark
“[We have a duty] to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”
Who characterized U.S. Latin American policy in this way?
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
William Seward
