APUSH Unit 7/8 Test Review

In his book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, the Reverend Josiah Strong advocated American expansion to

• maintain the international balance of power

• open new markets for industrial goods

• spread American religion and values to backward nations

• ease labor violence at home

Which of the following was not among the small but dangerous international crises the United States experienced in the 1890's?

• a conflict with Germany over the Samoan islands

• a near-war with Italy over the lynching of Italians is New Orleans

• a conflict with Canada over seal hunting near the Pribilof Islands

• a conflict with Japan over naval refueling rights at Midway Islands

A major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century was the

• need to justify substantially decreased expenditures including the reduction of the navy

• desire for more farmland

• construction of an American-built isthmian canal between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

• need for overseas markets for increased industrial and agricultural production

Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that

• free trade was essential to a nation's economic health

• control of the sea was the key to world domination

• the construction of a large navy was not necessary for a nation to achieve world domination

• the United States should immediately build a isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

During the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain, the United States

• threatened war with Britain and asserted its domination of Latin America

• failed to invoke the Monroe Doctrine

• consistently sought a peaceful negotiated settlement

• asserted its strong belief in Latin American independence

A primary reason that the British submitted their border dispute with Venezuela to arbitration was

• that growing tensions with Germany made Britain reluctant to engage in conflict with the United States

• that they expected the Monroe Doctrine to be ruled invalid

• that they did not want to become involved in a dangerous war in South America

• that they accepted America's complete domination of Latin America

The near-war between the United States and Britain over the Venezuela boundary crisis ultimately resulted in

• a naval arms race between the United States and Britain

• British concession of the disputed territory to Venezuela

• stationing United States marines along the disputed border

• a growing diplomatic reconciliation between the two English-speaking countries

One reason the the white American sugar lords tried to overthrow native Hawaiian rule and annex the islands to the United States was they

• found the government of Queen Liliuokalani repressive and inefficient

• sought to control American foreign policy in the Pacific

• wanted to convert the native Hawaiians and East Asian immigrants to Chrisitianity

• feared the Japan might intervene in Hawaii on behalf of abused Japanese imported laborers

Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced from power in 1893 because

• she refused to allow Christian missionaries in her country

• many Hawaiians found her rule corrupt

• she opposed annexation to the United States and insisted that native Hawaiians should continue to control Hawaii

• President Grover Cleveland believed that she had become too closely associated with the American sugar lords

Before a treaty annexing Hawaii to the United States could be rushed through the US Senate in 1893

• President Harrison's term expired and the less imperialist Grover Cleveland became president

• war broke out between the United States and Great Britain

• the white American sugar rebels decided that Hawaii should remain independent

• popular opinion in the United States turned against such colonial ventures