Crash Course #28: American Imperialism
1) Name two groups who suffered from American’s imperialistic push westward.
2) Who had all of the customers when America looked to imperialize other nations?
3) What two reasons were given for why the 1890’s a decade of crisis in America?
4) Alfred T. Mahan said that in order for the US to be a great sea power like ________________, the US must do what?
5) What was McKinley’s demand to Spain? Why did Spain choose war knowing they would be defeated?
6) According to McKinley, why did the United States go to war?
7) What was the “something else” that the Spanish-American War was over?
8) What “powers” did the Platt Amendment give the United States?
9) How did Cuba and Puerto Rico help the United States?
10) How did Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines help the United States?
11) What atrocities (awful things) did the United States do to the Filipinos?
12) What does a commonwealth mean for Puerto Rico?
13) Name two cases that people had against imperialism?
14) What two things about imperialism still exist today?
15) Name two “new ways” that you saw in the Crash Course that allows you to answer the essential question, “Was U.S
Imperialism justified?”