American Yawp Chapter 19

1. When did the United States begin trading with China?

a. 1784

2. What was the Open Door Policy?

d. A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets

3. How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?

a. President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress

4. All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT

b. This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected

5. What economic activity most united Brazil and the United States in the early nineteenth century?

a. Sugar trade

6. Why did President Wilson authorize the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico?

d. All of the above

7. During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

d. Access to trading routes

8. All of the following statements regarding the Philippine-American War are true EXCEPT

c. The war began with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic

9. As President Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?

d. Creating battleships and a “blue water” navy that would win battles against rival fleets

10. How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

b. Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies

11. Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT

c. Diplomats

12. Which ethnic group faces the most rigid immigration restrictions?

a. Chinese

13. At the turn of the century, the percentage of immigrants from which region decreased in relation to other regions?

d. Western Europe

14. Which ethnic group was most numerous among the Catholic bishops in the United States?

c. Irish

15. Catholic clergymen who took up the name “Americanists” believed in all of the following EXCEPT

d. The separation of church and state would benefit Catholicism

What will Mia score on this quiz? (Did I give her a different quizlet with wrong answers sprinkled?? I guess we’ll never know 🤷

6 or 7/10