Chapter 19

Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE?

U.S. Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied

The first civilian governor of the Phillippines, who gave Filipinos broad local autonomy, was

William Howard Taft

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

William Jennings Bryan

The "Cross of Gold" speech appealed primarily to

farmers

In 1899, supporters of the annexation of the Phillipines argued the United States had set a precedent for taking land while treating its inhabitants as dependents with the case of the

federal government's treatment of American Indians

American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from

foreign crop failures

Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii

had witnessed a revolution staged by American planters

The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States

should take possessions of the Hawaiian Islands

Criticisms within the United States of American colonialism including all of the following EXCEPT that

the financial costs of adminstering colonies would require burdensome taxes

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War

transferred the Phillippines and Puerto Rico to the United States

In the early twentieth century, Cuba

was occupied by troops from the United States for years at a time

To many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century

were dangerous signs of social instability

The "Open Door notes"

were directed to imperial powers in Europe and Asia

In the early 1900s, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?

Cuba

The Spanish- American War began primarily because of events in

Cuba

The man appointed to supervise a major overhaul of the armed forces was

Elihu Root

the american politician who referred to the Spanish-American conflict as "a splendid little war" was

John Hay

In the early stage of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in

Manila Bay

the bulk of U.S. soldiers in the Spanish-American War came from

National Guard units

The leader of Hawaii who was forced to yield authority to the American government upon annexation was

Queen Liliuokalani

The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was

Alfred T. Mahan

Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish-American War,

All these answers are correct

The Congressional law of 1873 that officially discontinued silver coinage

Became known to critics as the "crime of '73"

In the late nineteenth century, the United States' interest in Samoa saw competition from

Germany

The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at

all foreigners in China

In the campaign of 1896, William McKinley

campaigned largely from his house

As the republican party approached the 1896 election, they were

confident of victory

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

contended that all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive

The letter stolen in 1898 from Dupoy de Lome, Spain's minister to Washington, was controversial because it

described William McKinley as a weak president

The Foraker Act of 1900

established an American colonial government over Puerto Rico

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Phillippines

lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 called for the federal government to

purchase silver but not coin it

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment,

the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to protect life and property

In 1896, the major economic issue for William McKinley's administration was

the need for higher tariff rates

The Spanish-American War revealed to American military planners

the need to improve glaring deficiencies in the army