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WorksheetsAPUSH Period 7
Total questions: 64
Worksheet time: 46mins
Which of the following statements BEST defines the Open Door Policy?
The US would encourage greater immigration from Europe and Asia.
The US would seek spheres of influence in China.
Japan would not be permitted to trade in China.
All nations should have equal trading right in China.
All nations should have equal trading rights world-wide.
Which of the following was the most IMMEDIATE cause of the Spanish-American War?
Cuban Nationalism
US expansion policies in Latin America
"Yellow Journalism"
the sinking of the Maine
business needs for raw materials
The Platt Amendment made Cuba a de facto American protectorate in ALL of the followings ways, EXCEPT:
The US forbade Cuba from signing treaties with foreign nations that impacted their newly gained independence.
The US forbade Cuba from acquiring national debt.
Platt allowed the US to intervene in Cuban affairs that dealt with their independence.
Platt allowed for a US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay (which still exists today).
TRICK QUESTION - all of the above were reasons the Platt Amendment led to Cuba being a de facto US protectorate.
Which of the following BEST explains the influence of Yellow Journalism on US foreign policy in the 1890's?
Sensational news stories stirred the anger of the American public.
Newspapers failed to report news about Congress.
Most editorials favored China and criticized Europe.
Political cartoons ridiculed "mugwump" politics. (Mugwumps: Clean Republican Politicians who refused to play dirty politics ...their faces/mugs "sat on the fence" while Democrats often rewarded party faithfuls during elections season.)
Publishers of NY newspapers/dailies suppressed news that favored Cuban revolutionaries.
1) What was the Foreign Policy of the United States of America from 1789-1898?
Imperialism
Interventionist
Isolationism
Open Door
Secretary of State William Seward purchased this territory in 1867.
Alaska
Hawaii
Louisiana
Texas
The Teller Amendment promised this to the Cuban people...
To restore diplomatic relations between the American and Cuban Governments
To institute a new democratic government in Cuba
To overthrow Fidel Castro
To not annex Cuba after freeing them from Spanish rule
Theodore Roosevelt would resign his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead this group of volunteers in Cuba…
The Big Red One
The Buffalo Soldiers
The Rough Riders
The Sons of Liberty
Revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo would lead a revolt in this American held territory after the conclusion of the Spanish American War.
Cuba
Guam
Puerto Rico
The Philippines
Progressives tended to be __ (select all that apply).
white
middle-class
women
educated
__________ were journalists who exposed the "hidden" problems of Gilded Age society.
Yellow journalists
muckrackers
Investigative journalists
Jingoism
The __th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
16
17
18
19
Which of the following territories was NOT annexed [taken] by the U.S. in the late 19th century?
Puerto Rico
Guam
China
Philippines
The ______ stated that the U.S. would intervene against any European nation seeking to claim territory in Latin America.
Monroe Doctrine
Big Stick Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt Doctrine
The ______ _____ was constructed beginning in 1904 in order to facilitate trade and naval travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
(a)
“Article X says that every member of the League, and that means every great fighting power in the world, … solemnly engages to respect and preserve … the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the other members of the League. If you do that, you have absolutely stopped ambitious and aggressive war.”
Woodrow Wilson’s statement above was made in justification of his
decision to send troops to northern Russia and Siberia after the Bolshevik Revolution
insistence on “open treaties, openly arrived at”
opposition to the resolution on racial equality put forward at the Paris peace negotiations by the Japanese delegation
refusal to accept the “reservations” proposed by Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate debate over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
African American migration to the urban North during the First World War was due primarily to
racially integrated residential neighborhoods in Northern cities
increased educational opportunities resulting from affirmative-action programs
recruitment efforts by labor unions
expanded job opportunities in Northern factories
encouragement by White Protestant churches in the North
In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism EXCEPT
yellow journalism
the New Navy policy of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Theodore Roosevelt
the example of European imperialism
the flooding of American markets by foreign producers
Social Darwinism
Many anti-imperialists opposed the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 because they believed that
the Philippines should be returned to Spain
United States colonialism in the Philippines was incompatible with the American belief in self-determination
Philippine agriculture would be competing with United States agriculture
the Philippine government was planning an alliance with Mexico
Which of the following most directly led to the circumstances illustrated by the image?
The United States victory in the Spanish-American War
The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
The United States contributions to the Allied victory in the First World War
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Which of the following best characterizes the conservationist approach to the environment that emerged in the Progressive Era?
Designation of national parks and forests for recreation and managed use
Use of federal money to clean up polluted industrial sites
Passage of legislation banning the use of pesticides in agriculture
Passage of legislation to ensure clean air and waterways
Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?
Introduction of the minimum wage made child labor uneconomical.
The American birth rate declined, thus reducing the number of children available to work.
Factory owners advocated state child labor laws.
States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.
Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting
isolationism in world affairs
close military alliances with Great Britain and France
a sphere of influence in Africa
commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia
a campaign to slow the spread of socialism in eastern Europe
The United States home front during the First World War was marked by an increase in all of the following EXCEPT
tax rates on individuals and estates
government regulation of fuel, food, and transportation
employment opportunities for African Americans and Mexican Americans
participation of women in factory work, government service, and volunteer work
support of individual liberties by the Supreme Court
United States
Who is to blame for World War I according to the Treaty of Versailles?
Great Britain
France
Germany
Serbia
On August 6, 1945 where was the 1st atomic bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
Beijing
Hiroshima
Berlin
The America First Committee encouraged
Interventionism in the war in Europe
Interventionism in the war in Asia
Isolationism
Interventionism in both Europe and Asia
The agreement where the US agreed to allow nations whose defense was vital to ours to use our war equipment was:
Cash and Carry
Lend Lease
Destroyer Base Deal
Munich Pact
During World War II, posters of Rosie the Riveter were used to:
promote women's suffrage
recruit women into wartime industries
encourage women to serve in the armed forces
support higher education for women
