Becoming a World Power
Quiz by Paul Bachman
Grade 9-12
Social Studies
California Public Schools Standards
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- Q 1/21Score 0belief that if U.S. business leaders supported Latin American development, everyone would benefit29Anglo-Saxonismdollar diplomacyPan-Americanismyellow journalism
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- Q1belief that if U.S. business leaders supported Latin American development, everyone would benefitAnglo-Saxonismdollar diplomacyPan-Americanismyellow journalism30s
- Q2ensured that Cuba would remain tied to the United StatesRoosevelt CorollaryWilliam Crawford GorgasYellow JournalismPlatt Amendment30s
- Q3the United States would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessaryPlatt AmendmentDollar DiplomacyForaker ActRoosevelt Corollary30s
- Q4controlled mosquito populations to minimize disease during construction of the Panama CanalWilliam Crawford GorgasTheodore RooseveltPan-AmericanismDollar Diplomacy30s
- Q5area where a foreign nation controlled economic developmentyellow journalismprotectorateprotectoratesphere of influence30s
- Q6established a civil government for Puerto RicoPlatt AmendmentForaker ActAnglo-SaxonismPan-Americanism30s
- Q7the United States had a duty to shape “less civilized” parts of the worldYellow JournalismAnglo-SaxonismPan-AmericanismRoosevelt Corollary30s
- Q8idea that the United States and Latin America should work togetherPan-Americanismsphere of influenceprotectorateAnglo-Saxonism30s
- Q9local rulers had to accept advice from an imperial powerPlatt AmendmentRoosevelt Corollaryprotectoratesphere of influence30s
- Q10sensational reporting in which writers often exaggerated or even invented storiesPan-AmericanismForaker Actyellow journalismAnglo-Saxonism30s
- Q11In 1852 President Millard Fillmore sent a naval expedition to Japan toconvince Japan to become an American protectoratebring Western civilization to Japanconquer the islands around Japannegotiate a trade treaty with Japan30s
- Q12In the 1880s, economic and military competition from other nations and a growing feeling of cultural superiority convinced many Americans thatEuropean influence in the Americas should be reducedthe United States should be more isolatedEuropean-style imperialism violated American principlesthe United States should be a world power30s
- Q13The Roosevelt Corollary’s goal was tokeep European powers from using Latin America’s debt issues to justify interveninghelp European nations blockade Venezuelan portshelp Latin America pay back its debts to the United Statesjustify the invasion of the Dominican Republic30s
- Q14In the United States, public support for Cuban rebels was fueled in large part by what?popular interest in starting an American empirethe desire to protect American sugar interests on the islandsensational stories published by rival newspapersthe fear of having a Spanish colony so close to the United States30s
- Q15U.S. troops wanted to take the guns protecting the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba, in order todefeat the Rough Riders, who occupied the harborgive Puerto Rico back to Cubadrive the Spanish fleet into battle with the American fleettake control of the sugarcane industry in Cuba30s
