APUSH AMSCO PERIOD 7 EXAM
PREPARATION QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Manchurian problem - Answer- (example of dollar diplomacy) In the northern province of
Manchuria, the US was excluded from an agreement between Russia and Japan to
build railroads there. In direct defiance of the US Open Door policy, Russia and Japan
agreed to treat Manchuria as a jointly held sphere of influence.
intervention in Nicaragua - Answer- 1909: U.S. gave political support to the
conservative-led forces that were rebelling against President Zelaya. The U.S. had
differences with Zelaya regarding the proposed Canal and Zelaya's attempts to regulate
foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources. U.S. warships were sent after 500
revolutionaries, two of which were American, were killed by Zelaya. The U.S. intervened
and justified it by saying that they had to protect American lives and property. Zelaya
resigned and the U.S. controlled Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933.
Henry Cabot Lodge - Answer- Henry Cabot Lodge was a Republican who disagreed
with the Versailles Treaty, and who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. He mostly disagreed with the section that called for the League to protect a
member who was being threatened.
Lodge Corollary - Answer- A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine proposed by Henry Cabot
Lodge & ratified by the US Senate in 1912 forbidding any foreign power or foreign
interest of any kind to acquire sufficient territory in the Western Hemisphere so as to put
that government in "practical power of control".
Woodrow Wilson - Answer- 28th president of the United States, known for World War I
leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act,
progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of
Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S.
ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
anti-imperialism - Answer- belief that the U.S. should not expand its territory overseas
and that the U.S. should just be a normal country and leave the other countries alone
William Jennings Bryan - Answer- This Democratic candidate ran for president most
famously in 1896 (and again in 1900). His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of
silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator, he lost the
election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president and lost in 1900.
Later he opposed America's imperialist actions, and in the 1920s, he made his mark as
, a leader of the fundamentalist cause and prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Monkey
Trial.
Jones Act - Answer- 1916
1916 - Promised Philippine independence. Given freedom in 1917, their economy grew
as a satellite of the U.S. Filipino independence was not realized for 30 years.
Puerto Rico citizenship - Answer- Wilson gave US citizenship to all Puerto Rican
inhabitants + limited self-govt.
Conciliation treaties - Answer- Sec Bryan negotiated treaties w/29 nations where they
agreed to submit disputes to int'l commissions for conciliation, not arbitration. Included
provisions for cooling-offperiod, usually once a year, before nations resort to war.
Treaties: no practical effect but illustrated idealism
military intervention - Answer- The deliberate act of a nation or a group of nations to
introduce its military forces into the course of an existing controversy.
Mexican civil war - Answer- Wanting democracy to triumph there, Wilson refused to
recognize the military dictatorship of General Victoriano Huerta, who had seized power
in Mexico in 1913 by arranging to assassinate the democratically elected president.
General Huerta - Answer- Mexican revolutionary whose bloody regime Wilson refused
to recognize and nearly ended up fighting
Tampico incident - Answer- An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government
that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Vera
Cruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and
Mexico.
ABC powers - Answer- Shocked by world reaction, Wilson accepted an offer from the
ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) to mediate the dispute. The ABC powers
supported Wilson by recommending that Huerta go into exile. (685)
Pancho Villa - Answer- This military leader dominated Northern Mexico during the
Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1915. His supporters seized hacienda land for
distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains. Allied with
Zapata. He was eventually defeated though before the revolution ended in 1920.
American Expeditionary Force - Answer- About 2 million Americans went to France as
members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the
National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as
individuals
PREPARATION QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Manchurian problem - Answer- (example of dollar diplomacy) In the northern province of
Manchuria, the US was excluded from an agreement between Russia and Japan to
build railroads there. In direct defiance of the US Open Door policy, Russia and Japan
agreed to treat Manchuria as a jointly held sphere of influence.
intervention in Nicaragua - Answer- 1909: U.S. gave political support to the
conservative-led forces that were rebelling against President Zelaya. The U.S. had
differences with Zelaya regarding the proposed Canal and Zelaya's attempts to regulate
foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources. U.S. warships were sent after 500
revolutionaries, two of which were American, were killed by Zelaya. The U.S. intervened
and justified it by saying that they had to protect American lives and property. Zelaya
resigned and the U.S. controlled Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933.
Henry Cabot Lodge - Answer- Henry Cabot Lodge was a Republican who disagreed
with the Versailles Treaty, and who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. He mostly disagreed with the section that called for the League to protect a
member who was being threatened.
Lodge Corollary - Answer- A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine proposed by Henry Cabot
Lodge & ratified by the US Senate in 1912 forbidding any foreign power or foreign
interest of any kind to acquire sufficient territory in the Western Hemisphere so as to put
that government in "practical power of control".
Woodrow Wilson - Answer- 28th president of the United States, known for World War I
leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act,
progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of
Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S.
ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
anti-imperialism - Answer- belief that the U.S. should not expand its territory overseas
and that the U.S. should just be a normal country and leave the other countries alone
William Jennings Bryan - Answer- This Democratic candidate ran for president most
famously in 1896 (and again in 1900). His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of
silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator, he lost the
election to Republican William McKinley. He ran again for president and lost in 1900.
Later he opposed America's imperialist actions, and in the 1920s, he made his mark as
, a leader of the fundamentalist cause and prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Monkey
Trial.
Jones Act - Answer- 1916
1916 - Promised Philippine independence. Given freedom in 1917, their economy grew
as a satellite of the U.S. Filipino independence was not realized for 30 years.
Puerto Rico citizenship - Answer- Wilson gave US citizenship to all Puerto Rican
inhabitants + limited self-govt.
Conciliation treaties - Answer- Sec Bryan negotiated treaties w/29 nations where they
agreed to submit disputes to int'l commissions for conciliation, not arbitration. Included
provisions for cooling-offperiod, usually once a year, before nations resort to war.
Treaties: no practical effect but illustrated idealism
military intervention - Answer- The deliberate act of a nation or a group of nations to
introduce its military forces into the course of an existing controversy.
Mexican civil war - Answer- Wanting democracy to triumph there, Wilson refused to
recognize the military dictatorship of General Victoriano Huerta, who had seized power
in Mexico in 1913 by arranging to assassinate the democratically elected president.
General Huerta - Answer- Mexican revolutionary whose bloody regime Wilson refused
to recognize and nearly ended up fighting
Tampico incident - Answer- An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government
that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Vera
Cruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and
Mexico.
ABC powers - Answer- Shocked by world reaction, Wilson accepted an offer from the
ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) to mediate the dispute. The ABC powers
supported Wilson by recommending that Huerta go into exile. (685)
Pancho Villa - Answer- This military leader dominated Northern Mexico during the
Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1915. His supporters seized hacienda land for
distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains. Allied with
Zapata. He was eventually defeated though before the revolution ended in 1920.
American Expeditionary Force - Answer- About 2 million Americans went to France as
members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the
National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as
individuals
