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APUSH: Guide Questions (Pages 668-678)
From Expansion to Imperialism
Foundations of Empire (Page 674)
1.
How did imperialism in the 1890s reflect both continuities and changes from earlier
eras?
2.
What did Alfred Thayer Mahan urge the United States to do? What did the United
States do after his book was published?
3.
How was the U.S.’s intervention in Venezuela in 1895 significant?
The War of 1898 (Pages 674-677)
4.
How did yellow journalism effect the U.S’s opinions about Spain’s behavior in Cuba
in the 1890s?
5.
How did William McKinley differ from Grover Cleveland over Cuba?
6.
What was the de Lome letter?
7.
What happened to the USS Maine? What was the aftermath of this event?
8.
What was the Teller Amendment?
9.
Why did the United States have such great interest in Hawaii?
10.
What were the results of Queen Liliuokalani’s displeasure over the trade
agreements with the United States?
Spoils of War (Pages 677-6787
11.
What countries did the United States obtain in the Treaty of Paris of 1898 (treaty
that ended the war with Spain)?
12.
What arguments did anti-imperialists have against the annexation of the Philippines
(and imperialism in general)?
13.
How did the Filipinos react to U.S. annexation?
14.
What were the Insular cases?
15.
What was the Platt Amendment?