True or False Chapter 19 Self-Quiz 2

. New England missionaries proved valuable to the United States in their zealous effort to stamp out native culture in Hawaii.

True

False

. In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the closing of the American frontier provided the nation with magnificent new opportunities.

True

False

. The tripling of sugar production in Hawaii between 1875 and 1885 was the result of a trade agreement with the United States.

True

False

. After careful investigation, the Naval Board of Inquiry concluded in February 1898 that a malfunctioning boiler had caused the explosion of the USS Maine in the port of Havana.

True

False

. Americans by and large got little joy out of their victory over Spain since the war was far too brief and easy.

True

False

. Anti-imperialists in the debate over the annexation of the Philippines argued that a republic could not also be an empire.

True

False

. The first governor-general of the Philippines was Theodore Roosevelt.

True

False

. More than 10,000 African American men volunteered for military service in the Spanish-American War.

True

False

. The colonization of the Philippines and the expansion of the China trade significantly reduced the importance of the Panama Canal.

True

False

. Latin Americans referred to the Boston-based United Fruit Company as the "Octopus."

True

False

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