Unit 6 Test Guide

Unit 6- Becoming a World Power

Test Guide

1.     Study all notes from Unit 6

2.     Study Homework and Worksheets

a.     The Annexation of Hawaii

b.     Hawaii’s Last Queen video sheet

Content:

Progressivism

Essential Idea of progressivism

What is Progressivism? Origins? Goals?

Writers and Journalists

Muckrakers

The Jungle

 Imperialism

-       Define imperialism and identify the four reasons why countries were imperialistic

-       How/why did the U.S. gain control of Hawaii? 

-       How did missionaries influence U.S. control of Hawaii

-       What was the Bayonet Constitution?

-       Why does Hawaii have a diverse population?

-       Why did the U.S. want to gain access to trade with China?

-       Explain the situation in Cuba and the Philippines before the Spanish-American War

-       Identify and explain 2 reasons why the U.S. went to war with Spain.

-       Identify the results of the Spanish-American War

-       Why was the conflict called “a splendid little war?”

-       How did the U.S. gain access to the Panama Canal zone

-       Identify 3 reasons why the U.S. wanted to build the Panama Canal

People:

-       William McKinley

-       Alfred Mahan

-       Sanford Dole

-       King Kalakaua

-       Queen Lilioukalani

-       James Blount

-       Theodore Roosevelt