Which island group's queen, Liliuokalani, was deposed in 1893 by American sugar planters backed by US Marines?

Which archipelago did Spain transfer to the United States for a payment of $20 million in the 1898 Treaty of Paris, where Emilio Aguinaldo's forces then fought American troops?

Which island did Spain cede in 1898, and the Foraker Act of 1900 give a civil government headed by a governor appointed in Washington?

In 1903 the United States backed a revolt that separated a province from Colombia, then signed a treaty leasing a strip across it for a canal. Which new country was that?

Which territory did Secretary of State William Seward purchase from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million?

Which island group did the United States, Germany and Britain divide by treaty in 1899, leaving the United States the harbor of Pago Pago?

In 1899 and again in 1900 Secretary of State John Hay sent notes to Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Italy and Japan asking that all nations keep equal trading rights in China and that China's territory stay whole. What is that position called?

In 1900 members of a Chinese society attacked foreigners and besieged the diplomatic quarter in Beijing, and the United States sent troops as part of an international force that broke the siege. What was that uprising called?

In April 1898 Congress attached a clause to its war resolution stating that the United States had no intention of exercising sovereignty over Cuba and would leave the island's government to its own people. What was that clause?

Supporters of taking Hawaii could not reach the two-thirds Senate vote a treaty needed, so in July 1898 Congress annexed the islands instead by a joint resolution passed by simple majorities. What is that measure called?

In his annual message of December 1904 Theodore Roosevelt said that wrongdoing by a nation in the Western Hemisphere might force the United States to act as an international police power. What is this addition to the Monroe Doctrine called?

In the same year that it bought Alaska, the United States also took possession of a small uninhabited atoll northwest of the Hawaiian Islands, later valued as a cable and coaling stop. Which island was that?

In 1897 and 1898 the New York Journal and the New York World printed sensational and sometimes invented accounts of Spanish cruelty in Cuba to sell newspapers and push for war. What is that kind of reporting called?

In 1898 Albert Beveridge argued that American factories and farms were producing more than Americans could buy, so the country had to find buyers abroad. Which policy did that argument most directly support?

Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History shaped how American leaders thought about the navy. Which policy did his argument most directly support?

In December 1898 President McKinley proclaimed a policy of 'benevolent assimilation' in the Philippines. Which course did that policy support?

Between 1884 and 1899 Britain, France and Germany seized colonies in Africa, and they and Russia leased ports in China. Americans who pointed to this scramble argued that the United States should do what?

In 1898 the battleship Oregon had to steam from the Pacific coast around the tip of South America to reach the fighting off Cuba, a voyage of more than two months. Which project did that voyage most strengthen the case for?

In 1893 the historian Frederick Jackson Turner told a scholarly meeting that the frontier line which had shaped American life had closed. Expansionists who took up that idea argued the United States should do what?

Terms imposed on Cuba in 1901 let it keep its own government and flag but barred large foreign debts, required it to lease a naval station to the United States, and allowed American intervention. Which relationship does that describe?

By 1898 Russia held a leased port and railway rights in Manchuria and Germany held similar rights in Shandong. Each expected exclusive trade and investment in its area but did not govern China. What is such an arrangement called?

Under an 1887 treaty renewal the kingdom of Hawaii kept its monarch and its independence but gave the United States the exclusive right to use Pearl Harbor as a naval station. Which method of control is that?

In Downes v. Bidwell (1901) the Supreme Court held that Puerto Rico belonged to the United States without being a part of it, so Congress could tax its goods and need not extend every constitutional provision. What status is that?

The Anti-Imperialist League formed in 1898 to oppose keeping the Philippines. All four statements below were made during that debate. Which one states the League's own argument?

The United States kept the Philippines after 1898 instead of recognizing the republic Emilio Aguinaldo had proclaimed. What followed that decision?