Question

1) Choose the best answer.

Compensation paid by an individual or group to another for injury, damage, or losses.

payback

mediation

restitution

credit

2) Choose the best answer.

Which answer was NOT an American concern about the Cuban's fight for independence?

fear of Communism

alleged inhumane treatment by Spain

potential trade disruptions

U.S. financial investments in Cuba

3) Choose the best answer.

Fearing that the Japanese might act first, Congress annexed the Republic of ___ in 1898.

Hawaii

Midway

Guam

Alaska

4) Choose the best answer.

___ was a missionary and the first territorial governor of Hawaii.

Leonard Wood

Sanford B. Dole

Theodore Roosevelt

Joseph Pulitzer

5) Check all that apply.

What three issues did the Treaty of Washington settle with Canada?

boundaries between Canada and the United States

compensation to the U.S. for support during the Civil War

Canadian fishing rights in U.S. waters

U.S. fishing rights in Canadian waters

shipping access to the St. Lawrence River and the upper Great Lakes

6) Choose the best answer.

______ journalism printed sensational articles in an effort to increase circulation.

Black

Red

Yellow

Blue

7) Choose the best answer.

In 1872 Great Britain agreed to apologize and pay restitution to settle the _____ Claims.

Hawaii

New York

Alabama

Georgia

8) Check all that apply.

What two events encouraged Americans to call for war against Spain?

The sinking of the USS Alabama due to an explosion of unknown origin, was blamed on the Spanish.

An inflammatory letter was written by President McKinley.

An inflammatory letter was written by a Spanish Ambassador, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme.

The sinking of the USS Maine due to an explosion of unknown origin, was blamed on the United States.

The sinking of the USS Maine due to an explosion of unknown origin, was blamed on the Spanish.

9) Check all that apply.

Select Congress' four resolutions issued in its declaration of war against Spain.

Spain could continue to maintain a presence in Cuba and the Philippines.

All U.S. forces were to remain in Cuba after the war.

Spain must withdraw from Cuba and the Philippines.

President was given authority to use military to stop conflict between Cuba and Spain.

Cuba's independence was recognized.

All U.S. forces would be removed from Cuba after the war.

Answer 1

1) restitution

2) fear of Communism

3) Hawaii

4) Sanford B. Dole

5) boundaries between Canada and the United States; Canadian fishing rights in U.S. waters; shipping access to the St. Lawrence River and the upper Great Lakes

6) Yellow

7) Alabama

8) An inflammatory letter was written by a Spanish Ambassador, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme; The sinking of the USS Maine due to an explosion of unknown origin, was blamed on the Spanish.

9) Spain must withdraw from Cuba and the Philippines; President was given authority to use military to stop conflict between Cuba and Spain; Cuba's independence was recognized; All U.S. forces would be removed from Cuba after the war.