Mt. Carmel High School

Answer each of the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Who told the artist, Frederic Remington, “ You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”?  What did he mean by this statement?
2. What was the purpose of the Boxer Rebellion?
3. While Cuba was in rebellion Americans were angered by a letter from the Spanish minister to the United States. What did the letter accuse McKinley of being? Why would this offend him?
4. What three countries came under some form of U.S. control as a result of the Spanish-American war?
5. Why did Theodore Roosevelt win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?
6. Describe the events that led to the acquisition by the United States of the land needed to build the Panama Canal?
7. What were the Open Door Notes?
8. How did the second series of Open Door Notes differ from the first series of Open Door Notes?
9. What are the three deeply help American beliefs that were reflected by the Open Door Policy?
10. Describe the Amendment the U.S. made Cuba include in their Constitution. Why did they allow this amendment to be included in their Constitution?
11. Which country’s residents became citizens of the United States in 1917?
12. What is the purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary?
13. What is meant by the term anti-imperialism?
14. Why did Russia and Japan go to war in 1904? What was the result of that war?
15. How did the U.S. acquire Hawaii?