WorksheetsAmerican Imperialism
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.
Social Darwinism
Imperialism
Annexation
Geopolitics
The application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies - particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.
Racism
Social Darwinism
Imperialism
Evolution
A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.
Assimiliation
Paternalism
Imperialism
Colonization
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
Annexation
Imperialism
Colonisation
Geopolitics
Open Door Policy
proposed by the US that all nations have equal trade with China
China had to pay reparations, cede Hong Kong to Britain, and open new ports
Panama had to give over the production of the Canal after US helped aide fight against Colombia
Meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon how to colonize Africa
What was the result of the United States aiding Panama in their fight for independence against Colombia?
America got to control the Panama Canal
America took over Colombia
America took over Panama
a war with Colombia
Newspapers and magazines that stretch and sensationalize the truth about people and events are guilty of what practice?
Editorialism
Tabloidization
Yellow Journalism
Sensationalism
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy approach, emphasizing negotiation backed by the threat of military force.
Big Stick Diplomacy
Treaty of Paris
Monroe Doctrine
Platt Amendment
What ended the Spanish American War and granted the U.S. new territories?
Treaty of Paris 1914
Treaty of Paris 1898
The Spanish Agreement
The Monroe Doctrine
A U.S. policy under President Taft that aimed to use financial power to influence foreign governments.
Platt Amendment
Isolationism
Big Stick Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
An agreement allowing the United States to intervene in Cuba and maintain a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Platt Amendment
Protectorate
Moral Diplomacy
Sphere of Influence
A region where a foreign nation has control over trade and other economic activities.
Sphere of Influence
Annexation
Yellow Journalism
Spanish-American War
