1. The United States Looks Overseas Jeopardy
Important People
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Other Countries
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Miscellaneous
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Vocabulary
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Expansionists
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2. One of the main reasons the United States bought Alaska.
Miscellaneous for 100
One of the main reasons the United States bought Alaska.
What was to expand trade in Asia and the Pacific?

3. Miscellaneous for 200
States that when neighbors of the United States get into disputes with foreign nations, the United States has the right to become involved.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

4. Miscellaneous for 300
This event in 1898 led to war between The United States and Spain.
What was the sinking of the Maine?

5. Hero of the Spanish-America war who then became Vice-President.
Miscellaneous for 400
Hero of the Spanish-America war who then became Vice-President.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

6. Miscellaneous for 500
Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia.
Who was William Seward?

7. Important people for 100 Who was Matthew C. Perry?
Established trade between the United States and Japan.
Who was Matthew C. Perry?

8. Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
Important People for 200
Overthrown from power by Americans.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?

9. Important People for 300
One of the leading American voices calling for the United States to intervene in the revolt in Cuba.
Who was William Randolph Hearst?

10. Important People for 400
President that believed in dollar diplomacy.
Who was William Taft?

11. Important People for 500
U.S. forces chased this person into Mexican territory.
Who was Pancho Villa?

12. Vocabulary for 100
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
What is a protectorate?

13. Opposite of an expansionist.
Vocabulary for 200
Opposite of an expansionist.
What is an isolationist?

14. Vocabulary for 300
Helped protect the United States’ right to trade with China.
What was the Open Door Policy?

15. Vocabulary for 400 What is an isthmus?
Term that describes a piece of land that joins two larger bodies of land together.
What is an isthmus?

16. A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
Vocabulary for 500
A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
What is a corollary?

17. Other Countries for 100 What is trade?
After 1853, Japan agreed to do this with the United States.
What is trade?

18. Other Countries for 200
President Roosevelt’s “big stick” policy is most connected with this continent.
What is Latin America?

19. This is how the United States gained parts of Samoa.
Other Countries for 300
This is how the United States gained parts of Samoa.
Daily Double!
What is that the U.S. and Germany divided Samoa between them?

20. What were Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Wake Island?
Other Countries for 400
Two countries that became American territories after the Spanish-American War.
What were Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Wake Island?

21. What was that U.S. sailors had been briefly arrested ?
Other Countries for 500
President Wilson sent the U.S. Navy to occupy the port of Veracruz for this reason.
What was that U.S. sailors had been briefly arrested ?

22. Expansionists for 100
This thesis influenced the expansionist mood in the United States.
What is the Turner thesis?

23. How many Americans reacted to the revolt in Cuba.
Expansionists for 200
How many Americans reacted to the revolt in Cuba.
What is that many were sympathetic toward the Cubans?

24. Expansionists for 300
The Spanish-American War played a this role in the United States decision to build the Panama Canal.
What was that it took months for ships to go all the way around South America?

25. Expansionists for 400
This country lost land in Central America because it refused to work with America in building a canal.
What is Colombia?

26. Expansionists for 500
At least two reasons why expansionism was supported by many Americans in the late 1800’s.
What is that it gave opportunity to gain raw materials, spread American values, brought new trading partners?

27. Think about what we talked about in class, or look it up.
This is Final Jeopardy!!!!
Explain how the Spanish-American War led to the creation on an American empire, and the debate that this empire caused in the United States.
Possible Answers
Think about what we talked about in class, or look it up.