Question
Unit 6 Test
Multiple Choice
dentify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Enacted in 1898, the Teller Amendment declared that
A) the United States had no intention of annexing Cuba.
B) the United States would support Puerto Rican independence.
C) Americans would support Filipino independence.
D) the United States would grant Cuba statehood immediately if it so wished
2. After considering his options for the disposition of the Philippines, President I
A) annexed the entire Philippines on the basis that the Filipinos could not
govern themselves.
B) offered Filipinos independence after five years, but they refused his terms
C) offered to return the islands to Spain, which said that it was no longer inte
D) approached Germany about a joint protectorate arrangement, which it ref
In the Insular Cases (1901), the Supreme Court ruled that
A) the Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in
newly acquired territories.
B) inhabitants of newly acquired territories automatically became U.S. citize
C) McKinley had exceeded his presidential powers in the Philippine settlem
D) the United States must establish an independent Philippine republic with
ten years.
"Chronic wrong doing . .. may . .. require intervention by . .. the United Sta
Monroe Doctrine . .., however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong d
the exercise of an international police power."
The philosophy exemplified in this quote reveals that it was taken from
) The Influence of Seapower upon History.
the Platt Amendment.
the Roosevelt Corollary.
a speech by William Jennings Bryan.
Answer
1. A) the United States had no intention of annexing Cuba.
2. A) annexed the entire Philippines on the basis that the Filipinos could not govern themselves.
3. A) the Constitution did not automatically extend citizenship to people in newly acquired territories.
4. C) the Roosevelt Corollary.