HIST 221: American Experience in the Modern World
5.1 Quiz 4: HIST Ch 21: Becoming a World Power
Honor Code: I have neither given or received, nor have I tolerated others' use of unauthorized aid.
1. List 2 of the (is)lands that the United States claimed in the Pacific Ocean region
in the late 19th century.
2. Identify Alfred Thayer Mahan. Who was he and why is he important?
3. How did President William McKinley justify the United States going to war in
Cuba in the Spanish American War (1898) to the American people?
4. True or False. Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Mark Twain and Jane Addams
supported the annexation of the Philippines in 1899.
5. Identify one action that a Progressive Era president (Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson)
took to protect U.S. interests in Latin America in the early 20th century.
5.1 (Lecture 9) Imperial America: The United States in the World,
1890-1914
I. 1912 Election (continued)
and the Progressivism of Woodrow Wilson
Wilson’s New Freedom vs. Roosevelt’s New Nationalism
Wilson and a Democrat-controlled congress
• Underwood Tariff (1913)
• Federal Reserve System (1913)
• Federal Trade Commission (1914)
• Clayton Act (1914)
Moral Diplomacy and World War I (for Wed)
II. Was colonialism or imperialism the international
manifestation of Progressivism?
• How do you define empire?
• What is the imperial history of the U.S.?
• What was the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902?
• May 1898: Dewey defeats Spanish in Manila Bay
• February 1899: Filipino resistance under Aguinaldo to U.S. army
• February 1899-May 1902: war
• until 1906: periodic revolts (some islands, fighting doesn’t end until 1935)
• 1946: Philippines gains independence
• How did Americans talk about empire and the Philippine-American War at
home? (Anglo-Americanism)
III.Finally, The Great Gatsby