Module 6

What was the Treaty of Wangxia?

• A treaty that the United States signed with China

• A treaty that the United States signed with Japan

• A treaty that the United States signed with Cuba

• A treaty that the United States signed with the Philippines

William Seward believed that the United States should expand its borders.

• True

• False

Americans in the 1860s thought that the purchase of Alaska was a good idea.

• True

• False

The United States paid two cents per acre of Alaska.

• True

• False

Russia originally owned Alaska before the United States acquired it.

• True

• False

When did American capitalists begin investing millions of dollars in Cuba's sugar cane plantations?

• After slavery in Cuba was abolished

• After Cuba won its independence from Spain

• After jose Marti organized guerrilla campaigns

• After the promises of the monroe Doctrine were met.

Who was responsible for placing hundreds of thousands of Cubans in barbed-wire concentration camps?

• Joseph Pulitzer

• William McKinley

• Enrique Dupuy de Lome

• General Valeriano Weyler

Who was responsible for destroying the Spanish fleet at Manila?

• John Hay

• Leonard Wood

• George Dewey

• William T. Sampson

Why were the Supreme Court's rulings in the 1901 Insular Cases significant?

• Military rule in acquired territories would only be temporary.

• Businesses in acquired territories were prohibited from going into debt.

• People in acquired territories didn't have automatic protection under the Constitution.

• Governments in acquired territories were required to lease land to the United States for its military.

The Boxer Rebellion occurred out of resentment of foreign domination in China's cities.

• True

• False