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Question 51

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The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was

A) William McKinley.
B) Richard Olney.
C) James G. Blaine.
D) Alfred T. Mahan.
E) Leonard Wood.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

A) included the belief that weak nations should be left room to develop.
B) contended that all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive.
C) were created and first promoted by Charles Darwin himself.
D) differed sharply from arguments used for domestic economic affairs.
E) suggested that harmony among "races" depended on open markets and free trade.

F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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President Cleveland damaged the Democratic Party when he moved to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

The Spanish-American War emerged out of events in the country of ________.

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was used largely against labor unions.

The letter stolen in 1898 from Dupuy de Lôme, Spain's minister to Washington, was controversial because it

What was "yellow journalism" and how significant was it in the events of 1898?

In the decade following the Spanish-American War, American troops could be found in both Cuba and the Philippines.

Voter turnout for presidential elections in the late nineteenth century was much higher in terms of percentages than is the case today.

The Republican Party of the late nineteenth century appealed primarily to Protestants, in both the North and the South.

Describe which Populist ideas of the late nineteenth century differed from those of the Republican or Democratic Parties.

Alan Brinkley characterizes the war in the Philippines as the "least remembered of all American wars." Why would this be the case for this war?

In 1896, the major economic issue for William McKinley's administration was

The Democratic National Convention of 1896 saw the party attempt to incorporate some Populist demands into its platform.

Party identification in the late nineteenth century was usually a reflection more of cultural and geographic identity than of economic calculation.

In the early 1900s, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?

In his second term, President Grover Cleveland

The federal government in the late nineteenth century was not an activist government; a major exception to this was its ________ program for Union Civil War veterans.

The American annexation of Puerto Rico produced a storm of protest in the United States.