AP US History

Chapter
27

Study
Guide

Name______________________________________

Period_________

Empire & Expansion

1890-1909

Terms and Names: Define each term with complete sentences, using your own
words

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F.
G.
H.
I.
J.

Yellow press
Josiah Strong
Alfred T. Mahan
Pan-American Conference 1889
Great Rapprochement
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Queen Liliuokalani
Teller Amendment
George Dewey
Emilio Aguinaldo

K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
R.
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T.
U.

Foraker Act
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
Elihu Root
Open Door note
Boxer Rebellion
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Great White Fleet
Root-Takahira Agreement

Short Answer: Carefully answer each question in paragraph form using

information from the text.
1.

What factors encouraged overseas expansion? List them by category (such as

economic, social, religious, political, etc) and explain each factor.
2.
How did this new interest in overseas expansion manifest itself? Give examples specific
diplomatic crises or near-wars and emphasize cause, Americas attitude and actions and
outcome. (Include examples involving Germany, Italy, Chile and Britain.)
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7.

Outline briefly the history of American involvement in Hawaii BEFORE 1890, including
interaction with the native Hawaiian population.
How did the U. S. acquire Hawaii? Begin in 1893 and be specific.
What factors led the U. S. to get involved in the Cuban revolution against their Spanish
colonizers? (They are quite a few.)
Give 4 reasons McKinley was swayed toward war.
Outline the foreign policy debate touched off by the signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1898
that concluded the Spanish American War. What were the arguments of the antiimperialists? How about the arguments of those in favor of expansion?

8.

Why did Puerto Rican immigration increase dramatically after World War II? And yet,
why did many Puerto Ricans attain less education and economic success than other
immigrant groups? (Makers of America: The Puerto Ricans, p. 638-9)

9.

Describe the fighting in the Philippines between the Filipino rebels and the US army,
including the tactics used, the motives/goals for fighting, and the casualties.

10.

Outline the candidates, issues and outcomes of the presidential election of 1900.

11.

Describe Theodore Roosevelts ascent to the presidency and his style of leading once
he got there. What was his philosophy about Constitutional interpretation?

12.

What interest did the U. S. have in a canal somewhere in Central America? What options
were there and what obstacles stood in the way? How was the Panama Canal finally
acquired?

13.

What terms did Roosevelt help to establish between Japan and Russia in the Treaty of
Portsmouth? How did each party feel? What was the outcome for Roosevelt?

14.

How did a discriminatory local San Francisco school segregation law ultimately lead to
the Gentlemens Agreement?