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AMH2020 Exam 2 questions with correct answers
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AMH2020 Exam 2 questions with correct answers
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AMH2020 Exam 2Alfred Thayer Mahan - correct answer ✔✔Admiral in the US navy
He wrote the book, "INFLUENCE OF SEAPOWER ON HISTORY".
Said we need to expand and modernize navy.
Imperialism Factors - correct answer ✔✔1.) Over Seas Trade
2.) Do Not Want To Be Left Behind
3.) Darwin's Theory
4.) Social Unrest
Open Door Policy - correct answer ✔✔A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations
would have equal opportunities to trade in China.
How We Stole Hawaii - correct answer ✔✔Queen Liliuokalanis brother (the king) signed to make
America their protectorate. The Bayonet Constitution asked for them to release Pearl Harbor to the U.S.
and when she became Queen she made where only native hawaiins are eligible to vote. American Capt
Cook killed a cheif so Hawaiins killed him and when Hawaii had a pacific port americans used it and gave
Hawaiins diseases narrowing their population to only 50,000 people. when their sugar business boomed
america decreased their value for sugar with a tariff and the only way to avoid this was by including
hawaii with the U.S. through annexation and the Queen wanted to avoid bloodshed so she declared
them Republic and waited for a Republican to be elected at American President (Grover Cleveland)
quietly annexed them and wrote how ashamed he was of all of this.
Joseph Pulitzer - correct answer ✔✔Founder of YELLOW JOURNALISM
Yellow Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Joseph Pulitzer
Sensationalism. Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and
attract readers
, The DeLome Letter - correct answer ✔✔A letter written by the Spanish ambassador in the United States/
Said that McKinley was a weak president/ This infuriated the Americans and was one of the reasons we
went to war Spain in 1898.
Battleship Maine - correct answer ✔✔On February 15, 1898, the American ship, Maine blew up in the
Havana port. The Spanish investigators deduced that it was an accident (spontaneous combustion in one
of the coal bunkers) while the American investigators claimed that Spain had sunk it. The American
people were convinced by the American investigators and war with Spain became imminent.
Smoked Yankees - correct answer ✔✔The Spanish called the particular group this
African American soldiers of the U.S. Army who served during the Spanish American war
Stationed out west - buffalo soldiers
Platt Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Allowed us to interfere with Cuban politics
Armistice - correct answer ✔✔a truce or agreement to end fighting to end the Spanish American war on
Aug. 12, 1898
Booker T. Washington - correct answer ✔✔Born into slavery
Founded tuskegee institute in Alabama - a trade school
Do something other than farming, or cooking.
Economic independence to be the key to achieving black political and civil rights
W.E.B. DuBois - correct answer ✔✔Born up north, Never a slave
First African American to take a PHD from Harvard
He thought education (higher education) was the path to civil rights
1905 he was a founder of WAACP
Ida B. Wells - correct answer ✔✔Wanted the government to pass anti lynching acts
Two of her friends were lynched
She was never successful
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