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AMH 2020 EXAM 2
U.S as a world power at the start of the 20th Century - correct answer ✔


Alfred Thayer Mahan - correct answer ✔Navy officer whose ideas on naval
warfare and the importance of sea-power changed how America viewed its
navy; wrote "The influence of Sea Power upon History"
Argued that "Control of the sea was the key to world dominance"


USS Maine - correct answer ✔Ship that was sent by Washington that
explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the
start of the Spanish-American War
TWO INVESTIGATIONS:
1. Spaniards: explosion had been internal/presumably accidental
2. Americans: Caused by a submarine Maine


ACUTAL CAUSE: spontaneous combustion in one of the coal bunkers
adjacent to a power magazine


New steel navy - correct answer ✔allowed for american expansion by way of
the sea
Use of new steel boats instead of wooden ships


Troop Preparedness for the Spanish- American War: - correct answer ✔


New U.S. Territories - correct answer ✔resulted from the Spanish-American
War
Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines

, Acquisitions of the Philippines - correct answer ✔George Dewy sailed with
six warships into the Harbor of Manila, Entire collection of antiquated and
overmatched vessels was quickly destroyed
- emerged because of the Spanish - American war


Panama Canal - correct answer ✔(TR) , The United States built the Panama
Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice
versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans
build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a
Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United
States to build the canal.


Open Door Notes - correct answer ✔message send by secretary of state
John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy & Japan
asking the countries not to interfere with US trading rights in China.
(Diplomatic letters)


Boxer Rebellion - correct answer ✔A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending
foreign influence in the country.


Great White Fleet - correct answer ✔16 American battleships, painted white,
Roosevelt sent around the world to display American naval power
-also pressured Japan into the Gentlemen's Agreement


Early Contributors for the Progressives - correct answer ✔


Goals of Muckrakers - correct answer ✔To inform the public and put
pressure on the government to make reforms
- assailed the malpractices of life insurance companies and tariff lobbies

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