Involvement in the Spanish-American War, acquisition of Hawaii, and introduction of the Open Door policy in China were actions taken by the United States Government to
a. establish military alliances with other nations
b. gain overseas markets and sources of raw materials
c. begin the policy of manifest destiny
d. support isolationist forces in Congress
Answer: b. gain overseas markets and sources of raw materials
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A) strengthening of local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities. B) increases in federal expenditures for programs that provided assistance to urban African-Americans. C) financing a system of medical care for the elderly. D) a 20 percent increase in the defense budget, a five-fold increase in the purchase of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the building of nuclear submarines armed with Polaris missiles. E) more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty.
What area of India was crucial to European interests?
A) Awadh B) Bengal C) Punjab D) Sind E) Bombay
What was the immediate catalyst of World War I?
a. The uprising of Catholic peasants in Bavaria b. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo c. The German invasion of Poland d. The German naval blockade of Britain e. The French occupation of the Ruhr
As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt
A. opposed hunting on all federal lands. B. opposed the growing preservationist movement as impractical. C. opposed new dam construction on major rivers. D. added extensive areas of land to the national forest system. E. All these answers are correct.