View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do American commanders and troops retaliate?
(a) By pulling out of Manila.
(b) With a "no prisoners" policy.
(c) With a "torture the prisoners" policy.
(d) With an increase in forced labor camps.

2. How does Long react when Roosevelt connives to have a fellow expansionist appointed as the next Navy Commodore?
(a) Long rewards Roosevelt.
(b) Long resigns as the secretary.
(c) Long reprimands Roosevelt but allow his appointee to stand.
(d) Long reprimands Roosevelt and does not allow the appointee to stand.

3. With the Spanish fleet destroyed in Manila, McKinley appoints _________ to command the U.S. Army to take the city itself, still held by the Spanish.
(a) Major General Jacob Merritt.
(b) Major General William Merritt.
(c) Major General John Merritt.
(d) Major General Wesley Merritt.

4. What is the result of Dewey's cutting the telegraph cable out of Manila?
(a) It encourages Filipino ingenuity.
(b) It causes widespread fear.
(c) It causes a war.
(d) It greatly slows down direct communication.

5. Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and _________________ find themselves oddly on the same side of the expansionism issue.
(a) Thomas Eakins.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) Solomon R. Guggenheim.
(d) John Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the commission reports recommend?

2. When Roosevelt takes over as acting secretary, he looks at means of overthrowing who in Cuba and the Philippines?

3. Where do the Spaniards set up a trading post?

4. Soon, what happens to the local chiefs regarding their people?

5. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Magellan's voyage beginning in 1519.

2. What happens when some Spaniards resent the injustice of the Spanish towards the natives?

3. Describe the religion in the Philippines under Spanish rule.

4. How does Aguinaldo change his tactics? How does this affect both sides?

5. What does McKinley do when the Spanish fleet is destroyed in Manila?

6. What is Emilio Aguinaldo doing at this time?

7. What happens when more American troops are requested?

8. Describe the beginning of the war.

9. What takes place during the mid 1800s in America?

10. What happens when young Filipino men are educated abroad?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,440 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample