America Becomes World Power Quiz Review

Building an empire by taking over other nations or founding colonies.

• Nationalism
• Isolationism
• Imperialism
• Open Door Policy

Avoiding involvement with the affairs of other countries.

• Nationalism
• Spheres of Influence
• Isolationism
• Imperialism

This senator arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Initially, it was considered a folly.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• John J. Pershing
• William H. Seward
• William McKinley

Biased or misleading information that is used to promote a cause.

• Yellow Journalism
• Expansionism
• Propaganda
• Dollar Diplomacy

Showing a sense of pride, or loyalty, to a particular country.

• Nationalism
• Expansionism
• Propaganda
• Imperialism

News stories in which the truth was exaggerated, or colored, in order to gain readers' attention.

• Socialism
• Expansionism
• Yellow Journalism
• Spheres of Influence

This helped convince Anti-Imperialists to go to war with Spain by stating the United States had no interest in taking over Cuba.

• Teller Amendment
• Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Platt Amendment

This allowed the United States to make Cuba their 'puppet.' This limited Cuba's right to make treaties and permitted U.S. involvement in Cuba's affairs.

• Teller Amendment
• Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Platt Amendment

This person created a policy that was coined Corollary, which warned that in cases of "wrongdoing" by Latin American countries, the United States might enforce "international police power."

• William H. Seward
• Woodrow Wilson
• William Howard Taft
• Theodore Roosevelt

This person introduced dollar diplomacy, the practice of influencing governments through economic, not military, intervention.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• William McKinley
• William Howard Taft
• John J. Pershing