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
