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Overseas Expansion Vocabulary

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was referred to as "Seward's Folly?"

a)

Annexation of Hawaii

b)

Purchase of Alaska

c)

Making Cuba a protectorate

2.

Annex means to...

a)

add territory to a country

b)

increase taxes

c)

eat only meat and fish

3.

What is a Sphere of Influence?

a)

An area where a nation has special trading privileges (especially in China)

b)

Period in which one nation is heavily influenced by others

c)

Areas of land on which activists often tend to protest

4.

What did the Treaty of Kanagawa accomplish?

a)

Allowed countries to have boundaries in the ocean

b)

Opened 2 ports and helped to supply ships

c)

Get Hawaii and Alaska

5.

True/False: The Boxer Rebellion was when the Chinese "Boxers" attacked the westerners to protest foreign influence.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The Roosevelt Corollary...

a)

prohibited European investment in Latin America economies.

b)

allowed the U.S. to get involved in Latin America.

c)

remained popular in Latin America.

7.

Yellow journalism is...

a)

exaggerated stories meant to sell more newspapers

b)

truthful and accurate reports of historical events

c)

printed news stories on yellow paper

8.

What happened to the USS Maine?

a)

It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle

b)

It blew up and was a major cause of the Spanish-American War

c)

A great white shark ate it

9.

Define Protectorate

a)

A country whose affairs are controlled by another country

b)

A country that controls their own affairs

c)

A country whose affairs are controlled by the government

10.

Define Isolationism

a)

Policy of extending a nation’s role over other territories and countries

b)

Spreading a nation’s territorial or economic control beyond it's borders

c)

Staying out of other countries affairs

11.

What did the open door policy allow?

a)

Allowed foreign nations in China to trade freely in the other nations

b)

Made all foreign nations in China stay to themselves

c)

Caused the Boxer Rebellion in China

12.

What is Imperialism?

a)

Trading

b)

The taking over a strong country by a weak country

c)

The taking over of a weak country by a strong country

13.
How did the Panama Canal help businesses and the Navy?
a)
It made trans-Atlantic flight a reality
b)
It made travel time between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans shorter
c)
It increased the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. from Latin America
d)
It protected the right of the U.S. to trade with European nations