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? (Slide 2) ______

2. What is imperialism? (Slide 2) ______

3. What is isolationism? (Slide 3)

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4. What is expansionism? (Slide 4)

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5. Who did President Millard Fillmore send to Japan? (Slide 4) ______

6. What did the Treaty of Kanagawa accept? (Slide 4) ______

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

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

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

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

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11. What did expansionists argue? (Slide 7) ______

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

13. What did Captain Mahan argue? (Slide 8) ______

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

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) ______

17. What are the names of the two islands the United States acquired? (Slide 10) ______

18. What is a sphere of influence? (Slide 10)

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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) ______22. What happened on the battleship called the Maine? (Slide 12) ______

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) ______

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

28. What is an armistice? (Slide 15) ______

29. What did the Platt Amendment say? (Slide 15) ______

30. What is a proctorate? (Slide 15) ______

31. What is an open Door Policy? (Slide 16)

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32. What was the Boxer Rebellion? (Slide 16) ______

33. Where was Theodore determined to build a canal? (Slide 18) ______

34. What was the Roosevelt Corollary? (Slide 18) ______

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

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36. What was Woodrow Wilson’s goal? (Slide 19)

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37. Who led the resistance in the Mexican Civil War? (Slide 20) ______

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