Chapter 18 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

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. Many in America viewed the lack of formal colonies as distinguishing factor between the United States and European rivals.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. By 1870, the British provided more than _________ of all imports and exports throughout Latin America.

ten percent correct incorrect

twenty percent correct incorrect

thirty percent correct incorrect

forty percent correct incorrect

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. The historian who developed the "frontier thesis" was

Ralph Waldo Emerson correct incorrect

William Graham Sumner correct incorrect

Frederick Jackson Turner correct incorrect

Alfred Thayer Mahan correct incorrect

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. After the Civil War, foreign trade in the United States fell as other powers focused their economic attention on newly established colonies.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. Ulysses S. Grant steadfastly opposed efforts to annex Santo Domingo as un-American.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The British only consented to U.S. arbitration in their border dispute with Venezuela over Guiana after

Secretary of State Richard Olney laid out the US government's expanded view of the Monroe Doctrine correct incorrect

William L. Scruggs, former ambassador to Venezuela, published British Aggression in Venezuela, or the Monroe Doctrine on Trial correct incorrect

Venezuela severed diplomatic ties with Britain correct incorrect

President Grover Cleveland threatened a military response correct incorrect

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. Some members of the Cuban elite hoped to join the United States as a slave state before the Civil War.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. Cuba's Ten Years War ended with the

Treaty of Céspedes correct incorrect

Treaty of Weyler correct incorrect

Teller Amendment correct incorrect

Treaty of Zanjón correct incorrect

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. General Valeriano Weyler's decision to move residents to internment camps as he attempted to defeat the Cuban insurgency resulted in the deaths of more than _______ people.

10,000 correct incorrect

25,000 correct incorrect

50,000 correct incorrect

100,000 correct incorrect