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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 Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?
(a) Ferdinand Magellan.
(b) Franz Ferdinand.
(c) Vasco da Gama.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

2. Of what does Taft recommend U.S. sponsorship?
(a) Philippine insurgents.
(b) Philippine civilian projects.
(c) Philippine military organizations.
(d) Philippine reserves.

3. For how long does Spain keep the Philippines in a state of near suspended animation?
(a) More than five hundred years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) More than three hundred years.
(d) Two hundred years.

4. What do the Americans do to the village of Caloocan?
(a) They convert it to Christianity.
(b) They overwhelm it and burn it to the ground.
(c) They protect it.
(d) They save it.

5. How is Aguinaldo captured?
(a) The Americans kill all of his men.
(b) The Americans use a "Trojan horse" scenario.
(c) The Americans capture him after a small skirmish.
(d) The Americans use a "carrot and stick" scenario.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and _________________ find themselves oddly on the same side of the expansionism issue.

2. Who aggressively works for forty years to send out sea voyages?

3. As Filipinos gain power and prestige, what happens to their relationship with Spain?

4. What creates a harsh feudal system when it comes to land ownership and taxation?

5. Where else do the Portuguese aggressively explore over the next ten years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Aguinaldo in mid-1900.

3. What takes place when Cleveland is replaced by McKinley?

4. What happens when more American troops are requested?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does President McKinley do in January of 1900?

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