Imperialism Fact Sheet US History Name: Ms. Moskowitz

1. Between the 1890s and the start of World War I, the United States expanded its access to overseas markets and raw materials through the policy of imperialism.

2. The closing of the frontier and the growth of industry in the late 1800s are two

factors often associated with the rise of United States imperialism.

3. The United States acquired Hawaii, Wake Islands, the Philippines, and Guam during the era of Imperialism at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

4. One result of the Spanish-American War of 1898 was that the United States was

recognized as a world power.

5. As a result of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. saw the need to build the Panama Canal because the United States had acquired colonies in the Pacific region, and the US Navy could then move more quickly between oceans.

6. President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy was used by the United States to

police the Western Hemisphere.

7. President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy and President William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy is most closely associated with the United States’ intervention in Latin American affairs to protect economic and political interests in Latin America.

8. By proclaiming the Open Door policy in 1899, the United States was attempting to

ensure equal trading opportunities in China.

9. During the 1890s, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used yellow journalism to generate public support for the Spanish-American War.

10. Yellow journalists created support for the Spanish-American War by writing

articles about the sinking of the United States battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.