APUSH: Period 7,8 (AMSCO) Final
Review Exam and All Correct Answers.
William H. Seward/ "Seward's Folly" - Answer A leading Republican of the 1850s and 1860s
Secretary of State
Helped prevent Great Britain and France form entering the Civil War on the side of the
Confederacy
Led the drive to annex Midway Island
Gained rights to build a canal in Nicaragua
Purchased Alaska
Powerful advocate for expansion
Alaska was considered "Seward's Icebox"
Bought for $7.2 million from Russians
A.T. Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History - Answer Argued that a strong navy
was crucial to a country's ambitions of securing foreign markets and becoming a world power
Yellow Journalism - Answer Actively promoted war fever
Sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster, and scandal
Joseph Pulitzer's World
William Randolph Hearst's Journal - printed exaggerated and false accounts of Spanish atrocities
in Cuba
Spanish-American War (1898) - Answer Causes:
- Jingoism
- Cuban revolt
- Yellow press
- De Lome Letter
- Sinking of the Maine
- McKinley's war message
- Teller Amendment
First shots fired in Manila Bay (Philippines)
US invaded Cuba and destroyed the fleet at Santiago Bay
,Treaty of Paris
Rough Riders - Answer A regiment of volunteers led by Theodore Roosevelt
Led a cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba
Aided by African Americans
Treaty of Paris (1898) - Answer Signed in Paris on December 10, 1898
Recognition of Cuban independence
US acquisition of Puerto Rico and Guam
US acquisition of the Philippines for $20 million
Platt Amendment (1901) - Answer An amendment to an army appropriations bill
Bitterly resented by Cuban nationalists
Required Cuba to agree to:
- To never sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its
independence
- To permit the US to intervene in Cuba's affairs to preserve its
independence and maintain law and order
- To allow the US to maintain naval bases in Cuba
Cuba accepted these terms and included them in its constitution
Made Cuba a US protectorate
Philippine-American War (1899-1902) - Answer Filipinos were outrages that their hopes for
national independence were being denied by the US
Nationalist leader Emilio Aguinaldo led bands of guerrilla fighters in a war against US control
Emilio Aguinaldo - Answer Filipino nationalist leader
Led bands of guerrilla fighters in a war against US control
Anti-Imperialist League - Answer Led by William Jennings Bryan
Rallied opposition to further acts of expansion in the Pacific
Hawaiian Annexation (1898) - Answer American missionaries and entrepreneurs had settled
in Hawaii
American settlers aided in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani
, President Cleveland opposed the annexation
Open Door Policy - Answer The Chinese empire was falling under the control of the various
outside powers
Established spheres of influence in China
John Hay dispatched a diplomatic note to nations controlling spheres of influence
All nations would have equal trading privileges in China
Boxer Revolution (1900) - Answer Nationalism and xenophobia were on the rise in China
A secret society of Chinese nationalists (Boxers) attacked foreign settlements and murdered
Christian missionaries
US troops participated in an international force that crushed the rebellion
Forced China to pay a huge sum in indemnities
Muckrakers - Answer Newspaper and magazine publishers found that their middle-class
readers loved to read about underhanded schemes in politics
Many publications featured in-depth, investigative stories
Writers specialized in these stories
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Samuel Sidney McClure
Lincoln Steffans
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Theodore Dreiser
Frank Norris
Began to decline after 1910
More difficult to top the sensationalism
Publishers were expanding and faced eonomic pressures
Corporations were becoming more aware of their public image and developing a new specialty
Ida Tarbell/ The History of Standard Oil - Answer A series of muckraking articles in McClure's
Magazine
Combined careful research with sensationalism
Set a standard for the deluge of muckraking that followed
Shocking exposes of political and social corruption
Review Exam and All Correct Answers.
William H. Seward/ "Seward's Folly" - Answer A leading Republican of the 1850s and 1860s
Secretary of State
Helped prevent Great Britain and France form entering the Civil War on the side of the
Confederacy
Led the drive to annex Midway Island
Gained rights to build a canal in Nicaragua
Purchased Alaska
Powerful advocate for expansion
Alaska was considered "Seward's Icebox"
Bought for $7.2 million from Russians
A.T. Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History - Answer Argued that a strong navy
was crucial to a country's ambitions of securing foreign markets and becoming a world power
Yellow Journalism - Answer Actively promoted war fever
Sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster, and scandal
Joseph Pulitzer's World
William Randolph Hearst's Journal - printed exaggerated and false accounts of Spanish atrocities
in Cuba
Spanish-American War (1898) - Answer Causes:
- Jingoism
- Cuban revolt
- Yellow press
- De Lome Letter
- Sinking of the Maine
- McKinley's war message
- Teller Amendment
First shots fired in Manila Bay (Philippines)
US invaded Cuba and destroyed the fleet at Santiago Bay
,Treaty of Paris
Rough Riders - Answer A regiment of volunteers led by Theodore Roosevelt
Led a cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba
Aided by African Americans
Treaty of Paris (1898) - Answer Signed in Paris on December 10, 1898
Recognition of Cuban independence
US acquisition of Puerto Rico and Guam
US acquisition of the Philippines for $20 million
Platt Amendment (1901) - Answer An amendment to an army appropriations bill
Bitterly resented by Cuban nationalists
Required Cuba to agree to:
- To never sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its
independence
- To permit the US to intervene in Cuba's affairs to preserve its
independence and maintain law and order
- To allow the US to maintain naval bases in Cuba
Cuba accepted these terms and included them in its constitution
Made Cuba a US protectorate
Philippine-American War (1899-1902) - Answer Filipinos were outrages that their hopes for
national independence were being denied by the US
Nationalist leader Emilio Aguinaldo led bands of guerrilla fighters in a war against US control
Emilio Aguinaldo - Answer Filipino nationalist leader
Led bands of guerrilla fighters in a war against US control
Anti-Imperialist League - Answer Led by William Jennings Bryan
Rallied opposition to further acts of expansion in the Pacific
Hawaiian Annexation (1898) - Answer American missionaries and entrepreneurs had settled
in Hawaii
American settlers aided in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani
, President Cleveland opposed the annexation
Open Door Policy - Answer The Chinese empire was falling under the control of the various
outside powers
Established spheres of influence in China
John Hay dispatched a diplomatic note to nations controlling spheres of influence
All nations would have equal trading privileges in China
Boxer Revolution (1900) - Answer Nationalism and xenophobia were on the rise in China
A secret society of Chinese nationalists (Boxers) attacked foreign settlements and murdered
Christian missionaries
US troops participated in an international force that crushed the rebellion
Forced China to pay a huge sum in indemnities
Muckrakers - Answer Newspaper and magazine publishers found that their middle-class
readers loved to read about underhanded schemes in politics
Many publications featured in-depth, investigative stories
Writers specialized in these stories
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Samuel Sidney McClure
Lincoln Steffans
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Theodore Dreiser
Frank Norris
Began to decline after 1910
More difficult to top the sensationalism
Publishers were expanding and faced eonomic pressures
Corporations were becoming more aware of their public image and developing a new specialty
Ida Tarbell/ The History of Standard Oil - Answer A series of muckraking articles in McClure's
Magazine
Combined careful research with sensationalism
Set a standard for the deluge of muckraking that followed
Shocking exposes of political and social corruption
