Review for SFA and the Age of Imperialism
SFA What are push/pull factors? Did all of the new urban population come from immigrants? Why did workers feel the need for labor union? Who was the powerful boss of Tammany Hall who controlled the vote in New York City? What are referendum, recall and initiative? How did the Progressives increase democracy? What are muckrakers? Name two. What legislation did The Jungle influence? What war moved the U.S. into position as a world power? Reasons for the Panama Canal and the National Park systems.
Ch. 12 Test Prior to 1877 the US was isolationist in its foreign policy. Reasons for Expansionism (imperialism) What U.S. policies are implemented by –Security: Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy, the Great White Fleet –Ideology: Not recognizing undemocratic governments –Economic: Dollar Diplomacy, Open Door Policy in China
Ch. 12 Test Causes of the Spanish American War: Trying to free Cuba, sinking of the Battleship Maine Treaty of Paris 1898 – U.S. now a world power, Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate, annexation of Guam and Puerto Rico, buy the Philippines
Ch. 12 Test The Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt Corollary – Policeman of the Western Hemisphere Alfred T. Mahan The U.S. and Columbia Effect of the Panama Canal - How we got it, Problems building it (land slides, yellow fever, Cost) Purpose of the canal, Col. Gorgas, Resentment of Panamanians toward Americans China –(economic sphere of influences, Purpose of the Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion)
Ch. 12 Test White Man’s Burden – Author Rudyard Kipling – pro expansionism Anti- Imperialist led by author Mark Twain and capitalist Andrew Carnegie Queen Liliuokalani