CHAPTER
18
STUDY GUIDE
Mrs. Johnson American Studies IIC
AMERICA CLAIMS
AN EMPIRE
ISSUES
TO
UNDERSTAND
Answer the
following in
your notebooks:
Section One
1.
What is imperialism?
2. What were the causes of European and Asian
imperialism?
3.
List at least 3 reasons that America moved towards expansionism,
or imperialism.
4. What was America's economic interest in Hawaii?
5. How
was Queen Liliuokalani removed from power?
6.
Identify how Alfred Thayer Mahan and Rudyard Kipling affected America's
policy of imperialism.
Section Two
7. How did James Creelman affect America's role in Cuba?
8. Discuss Cuba's relationship with Spain during the late
1800s.
9. How and why were Americans split over the idea of
helping Cuba obtain independence from Spain?
10. Identify General Weyler.
11.
What was yellow journalism?
12. How did the NY Journal
and the NY World affect
Americans' opinions of Spain and events in Cuba?
13. What was the DeLome letter and why did it make
Americans angry?
14. Describe the U.S.S.
Maine explosion and the events of the spring of 1898.
15.
Where was the Spanish American War fought?
16. What was the role of Teddy Roosevelt and
the Rough Riders?
17. After the war was over ( and how long did
it last??) , what were the terms of the Treaty of Paris?
Section Three
18. Explain what Luis Rivera wanted for
the people of Puerto Rico.
19. What was the status of Puerto
Rico under the Foraker Act?
20.
Define the Insular Cases and the Platt Amendment.
21.
Describe America's relationship with the Philippines following
the Spanish-American War.
22.
Identify Emilio Aguinaldo.
23.
How and when did the Philippines gain independence?
24.
What was the Open Door Policy?
25.
How did the Boxer Rebellion affect America's relations with China.?
26.
Identify
John Hay.
27.
List key
areas acquired by America during the period of 1880-1910.
28.
What were the key reasons Mark Twain and others opposed imperialsim?
Section Four
29.
Describe
President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy.
30.
What did "Speak softly and carry a big stick" mean?
31.
Explain the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
32.
Why did
the U.S. intervene in Nicaragua in 1927? in the Persian Gulf in
1991? in Iraq in 2003?
33.
What was President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy?
34.
Discuss President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy. What was
missionary diplomacy?