Chapter 205. Reflections on The United States and the World, Chapter 20

Reflections on The United States and the World, Chapter 20

Use your critical reading skills to answer the following questions about the author’s historical interpretation in the narrative.

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the United States abandoned its isolationist foreign policy at the turn of the twentieth century and sought to expand its economic and political spheres of interest in Asia, the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the United States abandoned its isolationist foreign policy at the turn of the twentieth century and sought to expand its economic and political spheres of interest in Asia, the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.

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Correct. The answer is c. To validate her argument that economic interests drove the United States’ actions in Asia and the Pacific at the turn of the century, the author cites the example of the Open Door Policy, which aimed to maintain American market access to China.

Incorrect. The answer is c. To validate her argument that economic interests drove the United States’ actions in Asia and the Pacific at the turn of the century, the author cites the example of the Open Door Policy, which aimed to maintain American market access to China.

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Correct. The answer is b. The author argues that some Americans expressed moral outrage at the treatment of Cuban revolutionaries who had launched a fight for independence against the Spanish, but that American interests in Cuba were inseparable from its business interests there, which were substantial. She also suggests that American expansionists recognized that victory over Cuba would put the United States in a position to capture the Philippines as well.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author argues that some Americans expressed moral outrage at the treatment of Cuban revolutionaries who had launched a fight for independence against the Spanish, but that American interests in Cuba were inseparable from its business interests there, which were substantial. She also suggests that American expansionists recognized that victory over Cuba would put the United States in a position to capture the Philippines as well.

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Correct. The answer is b. To make a case for her argument that American diplomacy worked to bolster American hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the author uses the example of James Blaine’s use of American troops to solve Latin American border disputes in the 1880s.

Incorrect. The answer is b. To make a case for her argument that American diplomacy worked to bolster American hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the author uses the example of James Blaine’s use of American troops to solve Latin American border disputes in the 1880s.

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Correct. The answer is d. The author describes numerous factors that were important motivators for American expansionism in the 1890s, but she emphasizes that the depression of the 1890s provided “a powerful impetus to American commercial expansion” in Asia, the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author describes numerous factors that were important motivators for American expansionism in the 1890s, but she emphasizes that the depression of the 1890s provided “a powerful impetus to American commercial expansion” in Asia, the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.

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