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APAH
Reading Guide
Brinkley, Chapter 19 Part II
Name: ___________________________
Directions: Read pages 482 – 516 and answer the following questions using many details and examples
from the text.
1. What intellectual, economic, philosophical, and racial factors helped create a new national mood more
receptive to overseas expansion?
2. How did American imperial actions compare to those of Great Britain and other European nations?
3. What developments in the late 1880s and mid-1890s demonstrated the increasing interest of the United
States in Latin America?
4. How did American planters and missionaries transform the traditional society of the Hawaiian Islands?
5. How did Hawaii gradually get drawn into America's economic and political sphere?
6. How did the United States acquire part of Samoa?
7. What were the causes of American involvement in Cuban affairs? How was American public opinion
shaped on these issues?
8. What two incidents combined finally to pull the United States into war with Spain?
9. Describe the American plans and preparations for the Spanish-American War. Why was the "splendid
little war" so short?
10. Describe the role that black soldiers played in the Spanish-American War. What tensions surfaced?
11. What were the results of George Dewey's Philippine attack?
12. What was the key to the Puerto Rican economy?
13. What were the basic terms of the Treaty of Paris?
14. What arguments were raised for and against imperialism in general and the annexation of the Philippines
in particular? Why did President McKinley favor annexation? What role did William Jennings Bryan play?
35. How was the "open door" policy calculated to provide maximum commercial and diplomatic advantage
at minimum cost?
41. What changes from 1900 to 1903 gave the United States a more modern military establishment?