Chapter 20-Becoming a World Power

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Chapter 20-Becoming a World Power

Textbook Support/Class Notes

Instructions:

Use the Powerpoint presentation and American Nation textbook, Pages 614-639 and your class notes to answer these questions.

1. What overseas territories came under the United States control?

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2. What is imperialism?

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3. What is isolationism?

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4. What is expansionism?

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5. Who did President Millard Fillmore send to Japan?

(Slide 4)

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6. What did the Treaty of Kanagawa accept?

(Slide 4)

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7. What did William Seward want in the 1860’s? (Slide 5)

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8. What did the Czar offer to sell William Seward? (Slide 5)

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9. What was Seward’s purchase called? (Slide 5)

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10. Give one reason for the growth of imperialism (Slide 6)

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11. What did expansionists argue?

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12. Who was the captain of the United States Navy? (Slide 8)

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13. What did Captain Mahan argue?

(Slide 8)

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14. What was the Great White Fleet? (Slide 8)

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15. What was the name of the island the United States took? (Slide 9)

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16. What did Liliuokalani write?

(Slide 9)

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17. What are the names of the two islands the United States acquired?

(Slide 10)

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18. What is a sphere of influence?

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19. Who did the Cubans revolt against? (Slide 11)

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20. Define the term, yellow journalism.

(Slide 11)

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22. What happened on the battleship called the Maine?

(Slide 12)

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23. Who declared war on Spain in 1898?

(Slide 13)

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24. Who thought that the Americans should attack the Spanish as soon as possible? (Slide 13)

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25. Who was commander of the Pacific fleet?

(Slide 13)

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26. What did Roosevelt organize?

(Slide 14)

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27. Roosevelt led the Rough Riders in what famous battle? (Slide 14)

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28. What is an armistice? (Slide 15)

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29. What did the Platt Amendment say?

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30. What is a proctorate?

(Slide 15)

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31. What is an open Door Policy?

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32. What was the Boxer Rebellion?

(Slide 16)

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33. Where was Theodore determined to build a canal?

(Slide 18)

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34. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

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35. What did William Howard Taft favor? (Slide 19)

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36. What was Woodrow Wilson’s goal?

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37. Who led the resistance in the Mexican Civil War?

(Slide 20)

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38. Who did the President Wilson send to battle in the Mexican Civil War? (Slide 20)

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