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Question 1. Which of the following is an example of "dollar diplomacy" as pursued by President Taft?

1. Helping American businessmen create the American Asiatic Trade Association to pursue greater trade opportunities in China.

2. Paying off the European-held debts of Latin American countries so the United States would be the guarantor of those loans.

3. Sending the Great White Fleet on a circuit around the world in a tour of goodwill and as an implicit show of force.

4. Building new transportation and communication infrastructure in the Philippines to win the support of the Filipino people.

Question 2. Following disputed elections in Cuba in 1906, where the newly elected president faced armed revolt, the United States military intervened, occupied the island, and appointed a new governor. This an example of

1. The Roosevelt Corollary.

2. Containment policy.

3. Big stick diplomacy.

4. The open door policy.

Question 3. The Supreme Court case Gonzales vs. Williams determined whether a Puerto Rican woman, Isabel Gonzales, was considered a U.S. citizen or a foreign alien in immigrating to the United States. It was determined that she (and all other Puerto Ricans) were neither foreign aliens nor U.S. citizens, but "non-citizen nationals." Here is a section of the Supreme Court opinion in that case:

"It is manifest that Congress, in enacting the immigration laws, found it necessary for our welfare to exclude the dangerous or burdensome classes of foreigners enumerated in those laws; and the court has sustained in the broadest terms the sovereign right of the nation to exclude aliens and the authority of Congress to enact the laws necessary for that purpose, and has noted the purpose and motive of the laws."

How did the ideas of Social Darwinism influence the Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales vs. Williams?

1.  It was important that the people of Puerto Rico were allowed to preserve their cultural heritage.

2.  The Court determined that all people needed to have equal opportunity in order for the principles of Social Darwinism to play out.

3.  America had an obligation to ensure liberty and self-governance for the people of Puerto Rico.

4.  The United States didn't have to offer citizenship to people they perceived as naturally inferior.

Question 4. Following the Civil War, the United States looked beyond its borders and began to take its place on the world stage. Each President took a slightly different approach to achieving foreign policy objectives. Which of the following is an example of "gunboat diplomacy?"

1. Dispatching warships to support Panamanian independence after the Colombian senate rejected the Panama canal treaty.

2. Forcing arbitration of debt repayment to break the naval blockade of Venezuela by Great Britain and Germany.

3. Demanding that Cuba grant the United States its own naval and coaling station on the southern coast at Guantanamo Bay.

4. The ratification of the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an American territory with its own civil government.