Discuss American efforts to expand into the Pacific Ocean area prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Secretary of State William Seward believed the United States was destined to dominate the Pacific and purchased Alaska to promote this end. American settlement in Hawaii in the 1870s eventually led to U.S. control of the islands by 1898. Pursuing the Chinese market, in the 1870s the United States established a naval base in the Samoan Islands.
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A) the Black Death B) the Reconquista C) the Ottoman capture of Constantinople D) the rise of the Almoravids
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What will be an ideal response?
The space program launched by President Kennedy with the goal of sending a manned mission to the moon was the
a. Saturn program. b. Sputnik program. c. Mercury program. d. Apollo program. e. Moon shot.
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a. William E. Borah. b. Eugene V. Debs. c. Charles Evans Hughes. d. Hiram Johnson. e. Morris Hilquitt.