Practice Quiz on Imperialism
1. The expansion of the United States in the
late 1800s differed from that of earlier decades in that it involved
A) all of the answers below
B) islands, rather than
areas adjacent to existing
C) densely populated
areas not suitable for massive new settlement
D) possessions that few
Americans expected to become states
E) an increasing
importance on foreign trade
Answer:
A Page: 553–556 Difficulty: Hard
2. In arguing for their policies, the new
American expansionists of the late 1800s offered all of the following economic
and social reasons except
A) the
B) the
C) the
D) the
E) the
Answer:
C Page: 554–556 Difficulty: Hard
3. To justify their policies, the new American
expansionists of the late 1800s offered all of the following reasons except
A) strong nations were
destined by natural law to dominate weak ones
B) the
C) the
D) a strong navy was
the key to becoming a great nation, and colonies would serve as bases for such
a navy
E) selling goods in
foreign nations would bolster the economy
Answer:
C Page: 555–557 Difficulty: Hard
4. The ablest and most effective apostle of
imperialism was
A) William
B) Charles Darwin
C) Alfred Thayer Mahan
D) Frederick Jackson Turner
E) Andrew Carnegie
Answer:
C Page: 557 Difficulty: Easy
5. In 1900, the nation that had the third
largest naval force was
A)
B)
C) Italy
D)
E) the
Answer:
E Page: 557 Difficulty: Easy
6. The Pan-American Congress of 1889 resulted in
the
A) all of the answers below
B) creation of an
inter-American customs union
C) establishment of
arbitration procedures to resolve hemispheric disputes
D) creation of an
agency that distributed information to member American nations
E) peaceful resolution
of imperial claims in
Answer: D Page: 558
Difficulty: Medium
7. In the mid-1890s,
A)
B) president
threatening war before
C) United States providing financial aid to
D) president sending
marines to help
E)
Answer:
B Page: 558 Difficulty: Easy
8. The
A) American citizens developed a sugar industry
in the islands
B) the
C) Americans staged a revolution to depose the
native rulers
D) President Cleveland sent marines to ensure
that nothing stopped annexation from taking place
E) the domination of
the Hawaiian economy by American settlers
Answer:
D Page: 558–559 Difficulty: Hard
9. The
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Answer:
A Page: 559 Difficulty: Easy
10. In the 1890s,
A) a change in
B) when the Cuban
revolt broke out, the American press printed sensational, one-sided stories
about it
C) during the Cuban
revolt, the Spanish committed numerous atrocities, whereas the Cubans usually
behaved humanely
D) Cubans living in the
E) sensationalized
press coverage stirred a fervor for war
Answer:
C Page: 559–563 Difficulty: Medium
11. The
A) the American press
printed a private letter of the Spanish ambassador that insulted the
B) an American
battleship blew up in the
C) Spain refused to negotiate with the Cuban
rebels
D) Cubans living in
E)
Answer:
E Page: 561–563 Difficulty: Medium
12. The
A) William McKinley
B) Grover
C) Benjamin Harrison
D) Theodore Roosevelt
E) William Howard Taft
Answer:
A Page: 563 Difficulty: Easy
13. The
A) a shortage of modern
rifles and ammunition
B) heavy, cold-weather
uniforms in a hot climate
C) inadequate medicine
and food
D) lack of popular
support
E) poor racial
relations in the U.S. Army
Answer:
D Page: 563 Difficulty: Medium
14. During the fighting
of the Spanish-American War,
A) American troops had experienced commanders
B) more American
fighting men died of disease than were killed in action
C) regular army units
did more of the fighting than did National Guard units
D) the U.S. Army
conducted a competent and efficient mobilization
E)
Answer:
B Page: 563 Difficulty: Hard
15. The black soldiers who fought in the
Spanish-American War faced all of the following problems except
A) the U.S. Army kept
them in segregated units
B) the people of the
South treated them poorly while the troops were training there
C) they experienced
difficulties in combat because most of them had never been under fire before
D) the fully integrated
Cuban rebel forces that they fought beside reinforced their sense of racial
injustice
E) strict segregation
of facilities when the soldiers trained in the South
Answer:
C Page: 563–564 Difficulty: Hard
16. Theodore Roosevelt as assistant secretary of
the navy, ordered an attack on the
A) he was an ardent
imperialist
B) he did not regard
the military chain of command of any great importance
C) he was an active
proponent of war
D) he wanted Filipino
independence
E) he wanted to strike
against the Spanish Empire
Answer:
D Page: 564 Difficulty: Medium
17. The first major victory for the
A) in
B) in
C) near
D) near
E) at
Answer:
B Page: 564 Difficulty: Easy
18. Americans won the struggle for
A) the Spanish forces
quit after putting up a stiff but brief fight
B) the American forces
used incredible brutality and terror tactics to overwhelm the Spanish
C) the American forces
displayed both high efficiency and great military genius during the campaign
D) the Spanish forces
had already surrendered to Cuban revolutionaries before the Americans arrived
E) the Spanish suffered
from having neither a navy nor a trained army
Answer:
A Page: 565 Difficulty: Easy
19. The Rough Riders were
A) all of the answers below
B) commanded by Arthur MacArthur
C) involved in bold,
reckless charges during the fighting in
D) a cavalry regiment
in the regular army
E) Cuban-Americans who supported a free
Answer:
C Page: 565 Difficulty: Medium
20. After the Spanish-American War,
A) Puerto Ricans became more dependent on
imported food
B) the island became an
American colony
C) the island’s sugar
industry grew rapidly
D) Americans acquired control of much of the
island’s economy
E) the island’s
inhabitants generally accepted the American presence without protest
Answer:
E Page: 567 Difficulty: Medium
21. On the question of annexing the
A) all of the answers below
B) returning the
C) the
D) the Filipinos were
not ready for independence
E) the
Answer:
A Page: 567 Difficulty: Medium
22. The anti-imperialists of the 1890s opposed
A) the vast majority of
Americans opposed such empire building
B) acquiring Pacific
territories would bring “inferior” Asian races into the nation as potential
citizens
C) an empire would require
a large standing army and entangling foreign alliances
D) imperialism was
simply immoral, a repudiation of
E) imperialism
contradicted the republican foundations of the nation
Answer:
A Page: 567 Difficulty: Hard
23. William Jennings Bryan wanted the U.S. Senate
to ratify the peace treaty with
A) the
B) he hoped to become
governor of one of the territories
C) the war would be
over, and the Democrats could make Republican imperialism a campaign issue
D) he believed that the
inhabitants of the territories would be better off under
E) the acquisition of
sugar plantations would bolster the
Answer:
C Page: 568 Difficulty: Medium
24. In the decade following its victory in the
Spanish-American War, the
A)
B)
C) Guam
D) the
E)
Answer: A Page: 568
Difficulty: Easy
25. In the territories
with large land areas that the
A) quickly gave the
inhabitants full
B) slowly gave the
inhabitants most of the rights of citizenship and partial local control
C) eventually gave the
inhabitants partial citizenship and a small amount of local control
D) never gave the
inhabitants any rights as citizens and no local control
E) put citizens under
strict military rule
Answer:
B Page: 568 Difficulty: Hard
26. The Platt Amendment, incorporated into the
Cuban constitution, gave
A) full independence
B) economic
independence
C) nominal political
independence
D) an American colonial
government
E) an equal partnership
with American interests
Answer:
C Page: 568 Difficulty: Easy
27. In the Philippine
War of 1898 to 1902, the
A) easily put down the
insurrection of a small minority of Filipino people
B) with great
difficulty suppressed a full-scale revolt that the majority of the Filipino
people supported
C) defended the islands
against the attempt of the former Spanish rulers to retake them
D) protected the
inhabitants from the efforts of the Japanese to take over the islands
E) emerged as freedom
fighters in the minds of most Filipinos
Answer:
B Page: 568–570 Difficulty: Medium
28. The Philippine War of 1898 to 1902 saw the
A) all of the answers below
B) use only humane and
moderate methods in response to the guerrilla tactics of the enemy
C) create a military
government that ruled the country for many years after the war was over
D) achieve victory
after capturing the enemy leader
E) have the ability to
organize bloodless overthrows of governments
Answer:
D Page: 568–570 Difficulty: Hard
29. Most of the territory that the
A)
B)
C) Caribbean Sea
D)
E)
Answer:
B Page: 570–571 Difficulty: Easy
30. The
A) all of the answers below
B) keep the great
powers from completely destroying
C) allow
D) achieve a foreign
policy victory without using military force
E) promote the economic
ideal of free markets
Answer:
A Page: 570–571 Difficulty: Hard
31. The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 came to an end
when
A) the Chinese Army
suppressed all secret societies, including the Boxers
B) all foreign powers
agreed to stop interfering in internal Chinese affairs
C) a multinational
armed force rescued the foreign diplomats trapped in
D) the Japanese Army
attacked
E) the
Answer:
C Page: 571 Difficulty: Medium
32. After the end of the Spanish-American War,
the
A) all of the answers below
B) creating a general
staff to act as advisors to the secretary of war
C) decreasing the size
of the regular army
D) reducing federal
control over the National Guard
E) placing less
emphasis on foreign military actions
Answer:
B Page: 571 Difficulty: Hard
Fill in the
Blank Questions
33. The belief that the
Answer:
Manifest Destiny Page: 554 Difficulty: Hard
34. Expansionists found philosophic justification
for their ideas in the biological theories of _____
Answer:
Charles Darwin Page: 556 Difficulty: Medium
35. Alfred T. Mahan believed that _____ was the
source of the power of great nations.
Answer:
Sea power Page: 557 Difficulty: Hard
36. The
Answer:
37. The main export of
Answer:
Sugar Page: 558 Difficulty: Easy
38. The newspapers owned by W. Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer used sensationalized stories to sell newspapers, a technique known as _____.
Answer:
Yellow journalism Page: 560–563 Difficulty: Medium
39. In 1898, the battleship _____ blew up in
Answer:
40. Commodore _____ led the American naval forces
that attacked the Spanish fleet in
Answer:
41. As a result of the Spanish-American War, the
Answer:
42. Ironically, one of the best-known foes of
annexation, _____, supported the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and
annexed the
Answer:
William Jennings
43. The leader of the Filipino forces during the
Philippine War was _____.
Answer:
Emilio Aguinaldo
Page: 569 Difficulty: Hard
44. _____ became the first civilian governor of
the
Answer:
William Howard Taft Page: 569–570 Difficulty: Easy
45. The policy of allowing all nations to trade
in
Answer:
Open Door Page: 571–572 Difficulty: Medium
46. As American secretary of state, _____
expressed great concern about the impact of foreign concessions in
Answer:
John Hay Page: 571–572 Difficulty: Easy
47. The revolt against foreigners in
Answer:
Boxer Rebellion Page: 571 Difficulty: Medium
48. Between 1900 and 1903, secretary of war _____
supervised a major overhaul of the
Answer: Elihu Root Page:
571 Difficulty: Medium
49. William Randolph Hearst sent one of his reporters
to
Answer:
“I’ll furnish the war” Page: 562 Difficulty: Medium
50. _____ are the modern
incarnations of the “yellow journalism” of Hearst and Pulitzer.
Answer:
Tabloids Page: 556–557 Difficulty: Medium