Question 1

In 1903, the United States signed the Hay-Herran Treaty with Colombia, who agreed to lease a piece of land in Panama to the United States for __ years so that the U.S. could build a canal. However, the Colombian Senate refused to ratify this treaty.

Accepted Answer

99

Question 2

The  ____stated that Colombia would lease a piece of land in Panama, a province of Colombia, to the United States for 99 years. The Colombian Senate refused to ratify this treaty. .

Accepted Answer

Hay-Herran Treaty

Question 3

The Panamanians revolted and declared independence, and the United States signed a new treaty with Panama--the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. Secretary of State  ____ was the American signing the treaty

Accepted Answer

John Hay

Question 4

The Hay-Herran Treaty with Colombia was aborted. The United States then signed the  ___ with the newly independent Panama so that the U.S. could use a strip of land known as the Canal Zone to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Accepted Answer

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Question 5

The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was identical to the Hay-Herran Treaty except for the fact that it also allowed the United States to have full control and  _____ over the Canal Zone.

Accepted Answer

sovereignty

Question 6

As a result of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, the United States was able to build the ____.

Accepted Answer

Panama Canal

Question 7

The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gave the United States control over a strip of land in Panama which was used to build the Panama Canal. Construction started in 1904, and the Canal was first used in ___.

Accepted Answer

1914

Question 8

In the early twentieth century, the United States followed a policy of intervention in the Caribbean and Central America. This position was officially stated through the Roosevelt Corollary to the _____ .

Accepted Answer

Monroe Doctrine

Question 9

The Monroe Doctrine, stated by President James Monroe, sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere; Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine sought to ____ American intervention in the Western Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

justify

Question 10

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the U.S. would intervene where there was "chronic" ____ by any nation in the Western Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

wrongdoing

Question 11

The ___ was introduced by Congress in 1901. It was incorporated into a Cuban-American treaty and into Cuba's constitution, and gave the United States the right to intervene to preserve the independence or political and social stability of Cuba.

Accepted Answer

Platt Amendment

Question 12

The Platt Amendment was ___ in 1934. The U.S. followed such a policy in the early twentieth century through the end of World War I, when it started to shift towards an isolationist foreign policy.

Accepted Answer

abolished

Question 13

The United States applied the policy outlined in the ____to the island country of Haiti, where American troops remained from 1915 to 1934 in response to a major political uprising.

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 14

American troops remained ____in  for 19 years using the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine as justification. The U.S. also used this to justify intervention in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Mexico.

Accepted Answer

Haiti

Question 15

The U.S. was trying to maintain a presence in Asia, and wanting to limit Japanese dominance, ___ played peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War and orchestrated the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 16

The Treaty of Portsmouth, signed in 1905, ended the war between Russia and Japan. The Japanese ended up making deep concessions and did not get nearly as much as they thought they deserved. T. Roosevelt earned the ___  for his role as peacemaker.

Accepted Answer

Nobel Peace Prize

Question 17

Under the Taft-Katsura Agreement, made in 1905, the United States acknowledged Japan's control of Korea, and Japan recognized the United States' control of the  ___ .

Accepted Answer

Philippines

Question 18

The Taft-Katsura Agreement helped maintain good relations between Japan, who was the major power in Asia of that time, and the U.S. The two countries recognized each other's possessions in Asia, and Japan reconfirmed its support for the ___ .

Accepted Answer

Open Door Policy

Question 19

____ is a policy of spreading American influence by encouraging the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries.

Accepted Answer

Dollar diplomacy

Question 20

Dollar diplomacy was a big part of President ___ foreign policy. Dollar diplomacy was not as effective in Asia as it was in Central and South America.

Accepted Answer

Taft's

Question 21

A Mexican general named ___ raided a town in New Mexico in 1916, killing 17 Americans. President Wilson ordered the U.S. Army to send in a force to capture him. This force was was known as the Punitive Expedition.

Accepted Answer

Pancho Villa

Question 22

The ____ consisted of about 150,000 soldiers. Pancho Villa had the support of many Mexicans, and they demanded that the Am. troops leave Mex.

Accepted Answer

Punitive Expedition

Question 23

During what Administration was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Harrison   It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation

Question 24

"...the Pacific is the ocean of the commerce of the future. Most future wars will be conflicts for commerce. The power that rules the Pacific, therefore, is the power that rules the world... would be a statement of what philosophy?

Accepted Answer

U.S. imperialism

Question 25

The Open Door Policy ensured the United States trading rights in which of the following nations in the early 1900s? a. Mexico b. Colombia c. The Philippines d. Japan e. China

Accepted Answer

e. China

Question 26

Queen Liluokalani was deposed a. on orders of President Grover Cleveland. b. by Hawaiian sugar planters. c. by her own subjects who considered her weak. d. by Americans eager to extend the Monroe Doctrine. e. as part of the Spanish American War.

Accepted Answer

b. by Hawaiian sugar planters.

Question 27

Which best describes the Roosevelt Corollary (RC)?  b. The RC reinterpreted the Monroe Doctrine. .d. The RC asserted the right of the U.S to police the Americas. e. Later presidents used the RC as justification for interventions in Central America.

Accepted Answer

d. The Roosevelt Corollary asserted the right of the United States to police the Americas.

Question 28

What President is responsible for the Monroe Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

James Monroe  It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. 1823

Question 29

When Pres. Wilson refused to leave ___ during Punitive Expedition, the two countries came to brink of war. Villa laid down his arms and retired, and Am.troops withdrew, avoiding conflict.

Accepted Answer

Mexico

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