Ch. 26 - "Empire & Expansionism" & Ch. 27 - "Progressivism & The Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912"

This week and next, APUSH students will be studying the Age of American Expansionism between the years 1890-1899, and the years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. To strengthen your knowledge base of this important era in American History, the following assignments will bne completed by the due dates given:

1.)Ch. 27 & Ch. 28 Guidebook assignment - complete Sections II for each Guidebook assignment; KNOW Section III as well. (Due Mon., 2/22)

2.) Read Ch. 12 of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" - questions for this reading assignment are below. Please type your responses, or print them in blue or black ink. (Due Tues., 2/23)

3.) Practice quizzes on http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace27.html & http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace28.html. Choose "ACE the Test" for both chapters, and email your results to me at scottfields@mckeelacademy.com. You will need to send me verification that you scored at least 90% on both.

4.) All other classwork assignments for this week & next.

-You will have an exam on Ch. 27 & 28 on Fri., 2/26.


Zinn Questions for Ch. 12 ("The Empire & The People"):

1.) Why might Theodore Roosevelt have thought that the U.S. needed a war in 1897?

2.) What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?

3.) In what sense was overseas expansion "not a new idea"? If it was not new, then why did it not begin until 1898?

4.) How many times did the U.S. gov't intervene in the affairs of other nations between 1798 and 1895?

5.) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge believed that the U.S. needed to control the balance of trade in the Pacific. Which island and countries did he believe were key acquisitions toward attaining such a goal?

6.) Senator Albert Beveridge argued in 1897 that "the trade of the world must and shall be ours." What might his motivations and reasons have been for making such a statement?

7.) The ideology justifying American aggression in 1846-48 was similar to, or different from, the same ideology of 1896? Explain your answer.

8.) U.S. business interests favored an "open door" policy over the conquest of colonies. From this point of view, what were the pros and cons of intervening in the Cuban revolt that began in 1895? Why did intervention ultimately win out?

9.) How did the Cuban rebels react to McKinley's ultimatum to Spain?