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United States Looks Overseas 1853-1915
Homework Questions (answer these on a separate piece of paper)
Section 1 Eyes on the Pacific(Pages 680-685)
*1. What were the reasons many Americans came to favor expansion (in other words wanting to add more
territories/countries to the United States)?
2. What did the “Turner Thesis” state?
3. How did the United States protect its trading rights in China?
Section 2 The Spanish-American War (Pages 688-692)
*1. How did Americans react to the revolt in Cuba?
2. What were the reasons the United States declared war on Spain?
3. What were some reasons some Americans were against the peace treaty with Spain? Why did expansionists
favor it?
Section 3 The United States and Latin America (Pages 693-697)
*1. Why did the United States build the Panama Canal?
2. What did Theodore Roosevelt do in order to get the Panama Canal built?
*3. What was the purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary?
Section 1: Eyes on the Pacific (pages 680-685)
1. The purchase of Alaska was referred to as Seward’s Folly.
2. President Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii because the believed the revolt had been illegal.
3. The United States Congress voted to annex Hawaii.
4. The Open Door Policy was Secretary of State John Hay’s plan to allow all nation to trade with China on an
equal basis.
5. After 1853, Japan agreed to trade with China.
6. The United States and Germany divided the Samoan Islands between them.
Section 2: The Spanish-American War (pages 688-692)
1. The immediate cause of the Spanish-American war was the explosion of the battleship Maine.
2. Presidents Cleveland and McKinley both tried to stay neutral in policies toward Cuba.
3. The Spanish-American treaty of 1898 angered many Americans because it tempted the U.S. to create colonies.
4. The Philippines gained their independence from the United States in 1946.
5. After the Spanish-American war, the United States gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
6. As a result of the Spanish-American treaty of 1898, some considered the United States to have an overseas
empire.
7. One of the leading American voices calling for the U.S. to get involved in the revolt in Cuba was newspaper
man William Randolph Hearst.
Section 3: The United States and Latin America (pages 693-697)
1. Because Columbia thought that $10 million dollars to build a Panama Canal was too low, they refused
President Roosevelt’s offer.
2. When Francisco Villa raided and burned Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 Americans, President Wilson sent
several thousand U.S. soldiers across the Mexican border in 1916.
3. The policy that stated that when the neighbors of the United States got into disputes with foreign nations, that
the United States had the right to become involved was known as the Roosevelt Corollary.
4. President Taft’s policy that economic ties were the best way to expand American influence is known as dollar
diplomacy.
5. President’s Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson all intervened in some way in Latin American affairs.