Spanish-American War & American Imperialism

Spanish-American War & American Imperialism

6th - 8th Grade

25 Qs

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Spanish-American War & American Imperialism

Spanish-American War & American Imperialism

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6th - 8th Grade

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25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Spanish-American War was fought in which year?

1865

1912

1898

1941

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The MAJOR American business interest in Cuba was ___.

coffee plantations

iron mines

coconut farms

sugar plantations

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The main purpose of yellow journalism was to:

sell more newspapers

decrease public support and interest in the war effort

attack politicians who did not support imperialist goals

educate the public on world events

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The sinking of the ___ was one cause of the war.

Titanic

USS Arizona

Lusitania

USS Maine

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Yellow journalism contributed to the Spanish-American War by--

selling newspapers to raise money for weapons

giving advertising space to Spanish businesses

reporting American losses in great detail

printing news stories that were not the whole truth

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who was president of the United States during the Spanish-American War?
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate weaker countries politically, socially, and economically, usually due to want/need of resources and new markets:
pacificism
militarism
imperialism

isolationism

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