Question 1

Assess the wisdom of the Teller Amendment,the Platt Amendment,and the Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases.

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Question 2

Explain the rationale for President Cleveland's refusal to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.Could Hawaii have remained independent under either native Hawaiian rule or white planter rule? Why or why not?

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Question 3

Assess Theodore Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy,especially in Latin America and East Asia.Did Roosevelt's vigorous assertion of American interests enhance the United States' role in these regions or create resentment of the United States as just another imperialistic great power?

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Question 4

Write a thumbnail sketch of Theodore Roosevelt.Consider both the key characteristics of his personality and his style of leadership.In what ways did he make his own personality essential to his political and international goals?

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Question 5

Rank the following in terms of their ability to explain American interest in imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century:
a. racial theories,
b. international rivalry,
c. trading interests, and
d. religious humanitarianism. Justify your ranking.

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Question 6

Why is it not entirely true that the United States remained isolated from world events in the late nineteenth century? Describe some specific instances of American involvement beyond its own shores between 1865 and 1900.

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Question 7

What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?

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Question 8

Do you think that the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine fundamentally altered the nature of the doctrine and the intentions of its original authors (Monroe and John Quincy Adams)? If so,explain how.If not,explain how the doctrine and corollary are compatible.

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Question 9

Was the occupation and annexation of the Philippines fundamentally different from America's previous forms of expansion into territory held by Mexico? Why or why not?

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Question 10

It has often been said that American foreign policy toward China was for many years shaped more by a sentimental view of that country than by U.S.national interests or the actual situation of that country? In what ways was such a romantic view of China reflected in U.S.policy in the early twentieth century? What were the sources of Americans' idealistic views of China?

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Question 11

Consider each of the following as a possible cause of the Spanish-American War in 1898:
a. public opinion,
b. yellow journalism,
c. business interests, and
d. strategic interests. Which do you consider the key cause of the war? Why?

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Question 12

What attitudes and policies shaped American relations with both the government of Japan and Japanese immigrants? What did the San Francisco School crisis reveal about American and Japanese concerns?

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Question 13

What were the arguments of the pro-imperialists and the anti-imperialists in the debate over acquiring the Philippines? Which of the anti-imperialist arguments were most persuasive,and which proved not to hold up?

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Question 14

Explain the ways in which
a. the Boxer Rebellion and
b. the Open Door note signaled a new departure for American foreign policy in China and East Asia generally. What were the primary factors leading to deeper American involvement in that region?

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Question 15

Was there any shift in American foreign policy between President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt,the vice president who succeeded him after McKinley's assassination? If so,what was it? In what area,if any,did Roosevelt most clearly depart from McKinley's policies?

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Question 16

What was the fundamental assumption of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine? What made these assumptions seem persuasive to Theodore Roosevelt and others? Do you agree that the Corollary violated rather than extended the principles of the Monroe Doctrine?

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Question 17

Assess the U.S.military performance in the Spanish-American War.Why did the United States win?

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Question 18

The text's authors conclude that "China owed its preservation far more to the strength of the competing powers" than to Hay's Open Door policy.Does that view render the Open Door notes inconsequential? Why or why not?

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Question 19

Write your definition of imperialism.Then use this definition to argue that the conduct of American foreign relations between 1890 and 1905 was or was not imperialistic.

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Question 20

In what sense might the original public demand for intervention in Cuba be said to reflect traditional American idealism and anti-imperialism? How did that idealistic crusade end up leading to America's first major imperialistic ventures?

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Quiz 27: Empire and Expansion,1890-1909