1 .		From 1865 to about 1890, most Americans showed little interest in foreign affairs. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		Most late-nineteenth-century Americans were suspicious of European society, thinking it decadent and aristocratic. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		In the 1871 settlement of the "Alabama" claims dispute, the U.S. government paid $15.5 million for damages inflicted by General Sherman's army in Alabama during the Civil War. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		One reason for the growing support among late-nineteenth-century Americans for building an overseas empire was the desire to spread the supposed virtues of the Anglo-Saxon race, political democracy, and Christian religion. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		In 1892, President Harrison sent U.S. military forces to Hawaii to support a nationalist "Hawaii for Hawaiians" revolt. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		President William McKinley decided to annex the Philippines even though public opinion disapproved. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		In the 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the United States acquired the right to construct an isthmian canal over which it could exercise exclusive control. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		One the eve of the Spanish-American War, New York newspapers tried to increase their circulation by publishing lurid tales of Spanish atrocities in Cuba. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		Faced with growing popular support for war with Spain over Cuba in 1898, President McKinley hesitated, and only reluctantly asked Congress for a declaration of war. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor, Cuba. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		In the "insular cases," the Supreme Court held that America's annexation of the Philippine Islands was unconstitutional. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		After the Spanish-American War, the Cuban constitution authorized the United States to intervene in Cuba's domestic and foreign affairs. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		In the 1907 "Gentlemen's Agreement," the United States gained a fifty-year lease on the Panama Canal Zone. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door policy prevented the European imperial powers and Japan from extending their political control over China. [Hint]  True  False
15 .		As late as 1914, most Americans remained fundamentally isolationist in matters of foreign affairs. [Hint]  True  False