8.3 Review (westward expansion and Imperialism)
What animal were native American on the plains dependent on?
Did all Native American tribes in the Great Plains share the same
culture?
What was the name of the silver strike in the Sierra Nevadas in 1859?
What were the results when gold was found in an area?
What Asian immigrant came to work in the mines and on the
transcontinental railroad?
What thing caused the most growth out west?
What were the cattle on the Great Plains called?
Where did many cattle drives start?
Why were cattle drives a good business in the second half of the 1800’s?
What were areas that Native Americans were forced to live called?
What happened when Native Americans tried to fight to keep their land?
What act attempted to make Native Americans become farmers like
white people?
What act gave farmers 160 acres if they farmed it for 5 years?
What were farmers on the Great Plains called?
What did farmers surround their fields with so that animals didn’t eat
their crops?
What was the name for the foreign policy proposed by George
Washington. It had the United States avoiding alliances and trying to
stay out of world affairs.
Why did Japan follow a policy of isolationism?
What was the name of the naval leader who opened up Japan for trade
and secured help for shipwrecked sailors?
Who bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia for $7.2 million? He was
ridiculed and the purchase became known as Seward’s Folly.
What is it called when a powerful country seeks to control the economic
and political affairs of a weaker country?
Why did the United States want to expand during the era of imperialism?
buffalo
no
Comstock Lode
Native American tribes lost
their land, boom towns
Chinese
Railroads caused various
other businesses to grow
longhorns
Texas
Railroads brought goods to
market, demand for food in
the cities, cheap to raise
cattle that wandered the open
range eating for free
reservations
They lost the war although
they may have won battles
The Dawes Act
Homestead Act
sodbusters
Barbed wire – this closed off
the open range, ending the
cattle boom
isolationism
Fear of westerners
Commodore Perry
William Seward
imperialism
-Get raw materials
-Markets for goods
-Bases for their navy
-Competition with other
Why were people against expansion during the era of imperialism?
What territory was gained to give the United States a commercial and
military outpost in the Pacific Ocean?
What group of Americans was important in making Hawaii agree to a
new constitution?
What queen tried to keep the United States from being involved in
Hawaii?
In what year was Hawaii annexed?
In what year did Hawaii become a state?
What was it called when a nation had special trading privileges in a
section of China, usually around a port?
What was it called when U.S. Secretary of State John Hay said that a
country could trade in another’s sphere of influence in 1899?
What group revolted against foreign influence in China in 1900?
Jose Marti led Cuban rebels against Spanish rule in the 1890’s. What
was the primary force that got the United States into war?
What event did the yellow journalists use to get the United States to enter
the war?
Who took the Philippines during the Spanish American War?
Who commanded the Rough Riders, a weird mix of college students and
cowboys who overtook San Juan Hill?
As a result of the Spanish American War Cuba was granted its freedom
and the United States gained Guam, the Philippines, and this Caribbean
Island.
This person led the Philippines in revolt against the Spanish and later
against the United States. He compared the Filipino struggle to that of
the American Revolution.
The United States helped Panama rebel against this country so that it
could build a canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.
One of the biggest problems with building the Panama Canal was this
little insect which was responsible for Malaria and Yellow Jack.
What two bodies of water did the Panama Canal connect?
countries
-we were acting like Britain
did to us
Hawaii
Sugar planters
Liliuokalani
1898
1959
Spheres of influence
Open Door Policy
Righteous Fists of Harmony
(Boxers)
Yellow journalists
Sinking of the Maine
“Remember the Maine”
Admiral Dewey
Theodore Roosevelt
Puerto Rico
Emilio Aguinaldo
Colombia
mosquito
Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
What statement, made in 1823, told Europe to keep out of the affairs of
the western hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine (1823) was made by Roosevelt in
Roosevelt Corollary
1904. It said the United States could intervene in Latin America to
reserve peace. What was it called?
Who made the quote, “Speak softly and carry a big stick…”? It meant
that sometimes you might have to use force to back up what you say.
Teddy Roosevelt