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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aguinaldo assume that the United States will guarantee for the Philippines?
(a) Safety.
(b) Order.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Wealth.

2. How does the insurgent force's policy gradually switch?
(a) From a policy of guerrilla tactics to direct confrontation.
(b) From a policy of guerrilla tactics to traditional tactics.
(c) From a policy of direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics.
(d) From a policy of direct confrontation to no confrontation.

3. On what do the Spanish soldiers excitedly concentrate?
(a) Selling the Philippines to the United States.
(b) Preparing the Philippine people to be independent.
(c) Collecting revenue and converting the population to Christianity.
(d) Finding a route to enhance their power in the spice trade.

4. What does Aguinaldo tell his men to do?
(a) To completely abandon conventional warfare and harass American troops whenever possible.
(b) To flee the country.
(c) To assimilate to the American culture so as to convince the Americans that they have surrendered.
(d) Protect the Americans to show that they are a civilized people.

5. The _____________ view surpasses the expansionism view for most of the remainder of the 1800s.
(a) Independent.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Isolationist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does McKinley have no knowledge?

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

3. During the mid 1800s, the American desire to become a world power and be taken seriously _____________.

4. What do some men do to avoid mandatory "service"?

5. What is the result of Dewey's cutting the telegraph cable out of Manila?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ferdinand Magellan's early career as an explorer.

2. Describe the exploration by European countries.

3. What effect does the belief that the U.S. could benefit from having a colony in the Far East have on the United States?

4. What happens to Aguinaldo when McKinley easily sweeps the elections for a second term?

5. What good does General Otis do for the natives?

6. How do the Americans deal with guerrilla tactics?

7. What happens when more American troops are requested?

8. What is happening in the United States during this same time period?

9. What happens within ten years of Legazpi's rule?

10. What did Prince Henry do for Portuguese exploration?

(see the answer keys)

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