U.S. History 2

Guided Reading Questions for Age of Empire Modern American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914.html

Unit 3:  the age of empire

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"The Age of Empire": Guided Reading Questions

Guided Reading Questions for Chapter 22: The Age of Empire, 1890-1914

1. What impulses drove American expansionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?
2. Why did Americans get involved in Cuba?
3. What were the results of the Spanish-American War?
4. Why did the U.S. become involved in China?
5. What was Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" foreign policy, and how did it play out in Latin America?
6. What was "dollar diplomacy," and why did the U.S. shift to it?

Easy Preparation and Additional Media

Prime yourself further for the reading with the Crash Course video below.