Knytych APUSH 20

In arguing for their policies, the new American expansionists of the late 1800s offered all of the following economic and social reasons except

• the United States needed to expand due to the “closing of the frontier.”
• the United States needed to acquire new overseas markets for its products
• the United States would soon need to find new sources for the natural resources that it was rapidly using up
• the United States needed to find new sources of immigrants who would work in its factories for low wages

The United States acquired the Hawaiian Islands as a result of all the following factors except

• American citizens developed a sugar industry in the islands
• President Cleveland sent marines to ensure that nothing stopped annexation from taking place
• Americans staged a revolution to depose the native rulers
• President Cleveland sent marines to ensure that nothing stopped annexation from taking place

The United States was finally pushed into war with Spain by all of the following developments except

• the American press printed a private letter of the Spanish ambassador that insulted the U.S. president
• Spain ignored U.S. diplomatic requests in regard to Cuba
• Spain refused to negotiate with the Cuban rebels
• an American battleship blew up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba

The U.S. president who asked for a declaration of war against Spain in 1898 was

• William McKinley
• Grover Cleveland
• Benjamin Harrison
• Teddy Roosevelt

During the fighting of the Spanish-American War,

• American troops had experienced commanders
• Spain won many battles to prolong the war
• more American fighting men died of disease than were killed in action
• regular army units did more of the fighting than did National Guard units

The Rough Riders were

•             involved in bold, reckless charges during the fighting in Cuba
• Cuban-Americans who supported a free Cuba
• a cavalry regiment in the regular army
• military officers trained at West Point

After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico experienced all of the following developments except

• the island’s inhabitants generally accepted the American presence without protest
• the island’s sugar industry grew rapidly
• the island became an American colony
• Puerto Ricans became more dependent on imported food

The anti-imperialists of the 1890s opposed U.S. acquisition of an empire for all of the following reasons except

• imperialism contradicted the republican foundations of the nation
• an empire would require a large standing army and entangling foreign alliances
• the vast majority of Americans opposed such empire building
• acquiring Pacific territories would bring “inferior” Asian races into the nation as potential citizens

In the territories with large land areas that the United States acquired in the late 1800s, the federal government

• put citizens under strict military rule
• quickly gave the inhabitants full U.S. citizenship and complete control over their local affairs
• slowly gave the inhabitants most of the rights of citizenship and partial local control
• eventually gave the inhabitants partial citizenship and a small amount of local control

The Platt Amendment, incorporated into the Cuban constitution, gave Cuba

• full independence
• economic independence
• an American colonial government
• nominal political independence