PLEASE HELP 10 QUESTION US HISTORY QUIZ
The obvious victims of this expansion-slash-imperialism were the Native Americans, but we can also include the Mexicans who lost their sovereignty after 1848.
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Question 2
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The empires of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were different because they were colonial in their own special way.
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Question 3
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But make no mistake, underneath it all, imperialism was all about trade (money and power).
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Question 4
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Among the most vocal was Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge, who argued that imperialism was benevolent and would bring a new day of freedom.
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Question 5
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There were also non-racist anti-imperialists who argued that empire itself, with its political domination of conquered people, was incompatible with democracy. Which to be fair, it is. The Democratic Party.
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Question 6
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The Philippians were treated similarly to Puerto Rico in a series of cases between 1901 and 1904, collectively called the Insular Cases.
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Question 7
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Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipino rebellion against Spain, quickly turned against the U.S. because his real goal was independence, and it appeared the U.S. would not provide it.
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Question 8
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The Platt amendment in the Cuban Constitution authorized American military intervention whenever it saw fit, and gave us a permanent lease for a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
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Question 9
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A more important battle was that of Manila Bay, in which Commodore George Dewey destroyed a tiny Spanish fleet and took the Philippines.
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Question 10
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By far America's best piece of imperial business before 1898 was Hawaii.
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