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Ch.18 Imperialism

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    American Imperialism
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  • #1 What was the shortest American War?
    The Spanish-American War
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  • #2 What was the most inexpensive American war?
    The Spanish-American War
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  • #3 What country had been exploiting Cuba?
    Spain
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  • #4 What was the major cause of American deaths in the Spanish-American War?
    disease (Yellow Fever)
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  • #5 Who blew up the USS Maine?
    We don't know. Possibly Spain, most likely Cuban revolutionaries/terrorists
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  • #6 What battle had no American deaths from combat? (One died from heat stroke.)
    The Battle of Manila Bay
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  • #7 What branch of the military proved itself most valuable in the Spanish-American War?
    navy
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  • #8 What were 3 influences in bringing America into the Spanish-American War?
    Cuban revolutionaries, the De Lome Letter, the USS Maine explosion, yellow journalism
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  • #9 By how many Senate votes was the Treaty of Paris approved?
    by only 2
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  • #10 Roosevelt's secretary of state who helped him set his foreign policy
    John Hay
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  • #11 army doctor who proved that mosquitoes carry Yellow Fever
    Walter Reed
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  • #12 drained Cuba's swamps to fight Yellow Fever
    William Gorgas
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  • #13 led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill
    Theodore Roosevelt
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  • #14 fought for independence of the Philippines
    Emilio Aguinaldo
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  • #15 policy that said all of China would equally open to all nations
    Open Door Policy
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  • #16 What is imperialism?
    extending your country's way of life to other peoples, acquiring foreign lands to benefit a mother country
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