Reading Guide Answer these questions as you read the chapter. Chapter 10, Section 1
1.Define
IMPERIALISM:
2.Who
was the leader of the “build a bigger, more powerful navy” movement in the United States
after the Civil War?
3.What
territory, purchased from Russia
in 1867, was called “Seward’s Icebox?”
4.Why
did American sugar planters in Hawaii favor
annexation by the United
States?
Chapter 10, Section 2
5.Why
did the newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
encourage “yellow journalism” during the Cuban Revolution?
6.What
event (February 15, 1898) led to war between the United
States and Spain?
7.What
role did Theodore Roosevelt play during the Spanish-American War?
8.What
three territories did the United
States annex at the end of the Spanish –
American War?
Chapter 10, Section 3
9.The
United States wanted to keep
Puerto Rico because they intended to build a
canal – where?
10.What
was the most important reason for the United
States to maintain a strong political presence in Cuba following
the Spanish – American War?
11.Which
former Spanish colonial territory fought a four year war for independence
against the United States,
beginning in 1899?
12.What
country called for an Open Door policy concerning trade with China?
13.What
“three beliefs” became the bedrock of American foreign policy in the early
1900s?
Chapter 10, Section 4
14.Why
did Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
15.Panama was a province of what South American
country prior to winning independence in 1903?
16.What
American foreign policy made the United States
the “international police power” in the Western Hemisphere?
17.Which
U. S. president used “dollar
diplomacy” to deal with Latin America?
18.Why
did Woodrow Wilson call Mexico
“a government of butchers?”
DEFINE
THESE TERMS; a. Imperialism b. Philippine-American War c. Panama Canal d. Yellow Journalism e. "Big Stick" Diplomacy f. Open Door policy in China g. Spanish-American War h. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine I. Protectorate
TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS FOR UNIT 3 10 - 11
Unit 3, Foreign Policy and World War I is comprised of chapters 10 and 11 from the text.
Chapter 10 pages 340 to 369 Chapter 11 pages 370 to 407
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