HIST 1302 Midterm Ch. 20

Emilio Aguinaldo led a

Filipino force against the United States

The United States acquired all of the following as a result of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT:

Panama

William McKinley justified annexation of the Phillippines as the United States

all of the above (needed to bring the Filipinos civilization; felt the Filipinos were not ready for self-government; needed to Christianize the Filipinos; needed the islands for business and trade)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

argued that sea power was essential to national greatness

The Spanish-American War

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

The Hay-Herran Treaty

concerned America's right to build a canal in Panama

The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as "yellow journalism"

false

What is "yellow journalism"?

it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion

The Open Door policy

proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis

The Platt Amendment did all of the following EXCEPT:

provide for the American annexation of Cuba

The Roosevelt Corollary

stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries to forestall the intervention of other powers

The Teller Amendment stated that

the United States would not annex Cuba

A major reason that the United States annexed the Phillippines despite anti-imperialist opposition in the US was because

the islands were located very close to China and China's potential markets

When Americans led an overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in the early 1890s:

the new Cleveland administration opposed annexation

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true

the war lasted only 4 months and resulted in less than 400 battle casualties

Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?

to demonstrate that the US had arrived as a world power

Why did the United States fight a war in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?

to quell an insurrection of Filipinos that opposed annexation by the United States

The Philippine War

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was fueled in part by the need for new markets

Emilo Aguinaldo

was the Filipino rebel leader