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- The United States was slow to do anything with Alaska after purchasing it in 1867; however, the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s, along with what other factor, greatly increased the American population there.
- How did Admiral George Dewey personify the theory that Alfred Thayer Mahan put forth in his book The Influence of Sea Power upon History?
- In Schenck v. United States, the landmark case in which the Supreme Court upheld the Espionage Act, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in his majority opinion that __________.
- Following World War I, the new nations of Syria and Iraq were created out of the former __________.
- Despite the Teller Amendment, which said the United States could not permanently annex Cuba, President McKinley did maximize the opportunity to ensure continuous U.S. involvement there by __________.
- What crisis led to the Roosevelt Corollary in which President Roosevelt, expanding upon the Monroe Doctrine, asserted U.S. authority to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations?
- How did the Russian ambassador respond to the formal protest the United States issued regarding Russia's pogroms, which led to the killing of hundreds of Russian Jews?
- Before the outbreak of the Great War, Europe's nations were involved in an escalating arms race. In their quest for security, they engaged in a complex system of alliances that resulted in __________ making up the Allies who would eventually be at war with the Central Powers.
- The Roosevelt Corollary, President Theodore Roosevelt's policy that __________, was an extension of the preexisting Monroe Doctrine.
- President Woodrow Wilson presented his __________ upon America's entry into the war in Europe, a proposal outlining measures he believed were essential to attaining a lasting peace following the Great War.
- When Cuban rebels rose up against the Spanish government that still controlled their island in the 1890s, the most widely read newspaper organizations in the United States began engaging in a form of "yellow journalism," printing news items that were __________.
- What was behind President Wilson's refusal to oblige the wishes of American investors to support the administration of Victoriano Huerta, who had taken power in Mexico following a bloody military coup?
- The tensions between the United States and Japan in 1906 stemming from California segregation policies were reduced by 1908 thanks to the __________, a settlement that President Roosevelt negotiated between the two countries aimed at curtailing Japanese immigration to the United States.
- Once the war with Spain officially commenced in Cuba, U.S. Admiral George Dewey followed his orders and successfully __________.
- The assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914—the event that ignited the Great War (WWI)—was carried out by a __________.
- Following the Spanish-American War, the people of __________ rose up in rejection of their annexation by the United States and fought for their independence in a bloody struggle that lasted nearly four years.
- Some refer to the late-nineteenth-century period of U.S. history as the age of U.S. imperialism given the nation's acquisitions during this period in __________.
- A subject at which members of the U.S. Congress balked in 1867 and many in Congress labeled "Seward's folly" was U.S. Secretary of State Seward's __________.
- These were state and local laws in Fortune resource education in the southern United States
- Name three ways the nurse tried to limit the right to vote African Americans