Roosevelt corollary
What will be an ideal response?
President Theodore Roosevelt's policy asserting U.S. authority to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations; an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine.
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A. It allowed African Americans to buy land on credit B. It was forced on African Americans by ruthless landowners C. It gave African Americans freedom from daily supervision by white landowners or overseers D. It was a humanitarian system of poverty relief
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A) settlement of the West was part of a divine plan. B) Native Americans had to die for Americans to survive. C) reaching the Pacific was a sign that Americans were destined for greatness. D) it was the fate of settlers to die in the West.
The goal of a typical Puritan in the early seventeenth century was to
A) be as successful in business as possible. B) become a self-sufficient farmer. C) become a "visible saint" on earth and hence a member of the church. D) leave the Church of England.
In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except
a. the ideology of Manifest Destiny. b. moral indignation expressed by southwestern American expansionists following the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexican crossing the Rio Grande in April 1846. c. the desire to gain payment for unpaid damage tort claims by American citizens against the Mexican government for damages to Americans and their property in the Southwest. d. the impulse to satisfy Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called "spot resolutions" concerning alleged Mexican incursions into American territory. e. Polk's desire to acquire California.