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Questions: 44 | Attempts: 874 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question 1
* "We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; subjugated the remaining ten millions by Benevolent assimilation. . .. And so, by these Providences of God--and the phrase is the government's, not mine--we are a World Power." The statement above was most probably made in reference to United States policy in the

Opening of Japan

Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

Occupation of the Philippines

Acquisition of Puerto Rico and Cuba

Confrontation with the Soviet Union over Cuba

Sample Question 2
* " ... the policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese empire." This quotation is part of

Burlingame Treaty

Open Door Policy

Boxer Protocol

Kellog-Brian Pact

Stimson Doctrine

Sample Question 3
* Which of the following has NOT been offered by historians as an explanation for the United States entry into the war with Spain in 1898?

President McKinley was too weak to withstand the multitude of pressures forcing him toward a decision for war.

Yellow journals created an irresistible war fever by publicizing atrocities allegedly being committed by the Spanish in Cuba.

American businessmen wanted to protect their investments in Cuba and assure a Cuban market for their products.

By the late 1890's the United States had assumed a world role that made it seem necessary to dominate the Caribbean.

Spain was blatantly interfering with United States maritime rights as a nonbelligerent power.