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Chapter 23: From Isolation to Empire

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	From 1865 to about 1890, most Americans showed little interest in foreign affairs.    True  False

	Most late-nineteenth-century Americans were suspicious of European society, thinking it decadent and aristocratic.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	In 1892, President Harrison sent U.S. military forces to Hawaii to support a nationalist "Hawaii for Hawaiians" revolt.    True  False

	President William McKinley decided to annex the Philippines even though public opinion disapproved.    True  False

	In the 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the United States acquired the right to construct an isthmian canal over which it could exercise exclusive control.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor, Cuba.    True  False

	After the Spanish-American War, the Cuban constitution authorized the United States to intervene in Cuba's domestic and foreign affairs.    True  False

	In the 1907 "Gentlemen's Agreement," the United States gained a fifty-year lease on the Panama Canal Zone.    True  False

	Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door policy prevented the European imperial powers and Japan from extending their political control over China.    True  False

	As late as 1914, most Americans remained fundamentally isolationist in matters of foreign affairs.    True  False

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