Sophia Learning U.S. History II Milestone 2 Practice Exam 40
Questions with Answers and Rationales
Imperialism
1. Which argument did Alfred Thayer Mahan make about national power?
A. Agricultural self-sufficiency required banning ocean travel
B. A strong navy and access to overseas bases were essential
C. The United States should eliminate merchant shipping
D. Naval forces had become irrelevant to trade
2. What was yellow journalism associated with before the Spanish-American War?
A. Government publication of neutral statistical reports only
B. A ban on reporting events in Cuba
C. Sensational
newspaper reporting that intensified public interest and hostility
toward Spain
D. Newspapers refusing to use dramatic headlines
3. Which event became a powerful rallying symbol for war with Spain in 1898?
A. The Cuban missile crisis
B. The attack on Pearl Harbor
C. The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor
D. The sinking of the Lusitania
4. Whichterritory did the United States acquire from Spain under the 1898 peace
treaty?
A. Canada
B. Panama
C. Haiti
D. The Philippines
5. Why did the Philippine-American War begin?
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, A. Congress invited the Philippines to annex the United States
B. Spain invaded Alaska
C. Filipino independence forces resisted U.S. colonial rule
D. Japan attacked the Panama Canal
6. What did the Open Door policy seek in China?
A. Formal Chinese annexation by the United States
B. Immediate closure of China to foreign trade
C. Exclusive U.S. ownership of all Chinese ports
D. Equal commercial access and preservation of China's territorial integrity
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, 7. What did the Roosevelt Corollary claim?
A. Latin America could never trade with the United States
B. The United States would abandon the Monroe Doctrine
C. The United States could intervene in Latin America to address instability or debt
problems
D. European states should govern all Latin American countries
8. Why was the Panama Canal strategically important?
A. It ended trade with Latin America
B. It eliminated all need for a navy
C. It connected the Great Lakes directly to China
D. It shortened the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Progressive reform
9. What did Progressive reformers generally believe about industrial society?
A. Urban poverty could only be solved by closing all cities
B. Public
action could address problems such as corruption, unsafe conditions, and
corporate abuses
C. Every industrial problem would disappear without reform
D. Federal and state governments had no role in public welfare
10. What was a muckraker?
A. A journalist who exposed corruption or social abuses
B. An official who distributed Western land
C. A soldier serving in the Philippines
D. A banker who fixed currency exchange rates
11. Which federal laws followed public concern highlighted by Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle?
A. The GI Bill and Marshall Plan
B. The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
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Questions with Answers and Rationales
Imperialism
1. Which argument did Alfred Thayer Mahan make about national power?
A. Agricultural self-sufficiency required banning ocean travel
B. A strong navy and access to overseas bases were essential
C. The United States should eliminate merchant shipping
D. Naval forces had become irrelevant to trade
2. What was yellow journalism associated with before the Spanish-American War?
A. Government publication of neutral statistical reports only
B. A ban on reporting events in Cuba
C. Sensational
newspaper reporting that intensified public interest and hostility
toward Spain
D. Newspapers refusing to use dramatic headlines
3. Which event became a powerful rallying symbol for war with Spain in 1898?
A. The Cuban missile crisis
B. The attack on Pearl Harbor
C. The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor
D. The sinking of the Lusitania
4. Whichterritory did the United States acquire from Spain under the 1898 peace
treaty?
A. Canada
B. Panama
C. Haiti
D. The Philippines
5. Why did the Philippine-American War begin?
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, A. Congress invited the Philippines to annex the United States
B. Spain invaded Alaska
C. Filipino independence forces resisted U.S. colonial rule
D. Japan attacked the Panama Canal
6. What did the Open Door policy seek in China?
A. Formal Chinese annexation by the United States
B. Immediate closure of China to foreign trade
C. Exclusive U.S. ownership of all Chinese ports
D. Equal commercial access and preservation of China's territorial integrity
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, 7. What did the Roosevelt Corollary claim?
A. Latin America could never trade with the United States
B. The United States would abandon the Monroe Doctrine
C. The United States could intervene in Latin America to address instability or debt
problems
D. European states should govern all Latin American countries
8. Why was the Panama Canal strategically important?
A. It ended trade with Latin America
B. It eliminated all need for a navy
C. It connected the Great Lakes directly to China
D. It shortened the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Progressive reform
9. What did Progressive reformers generally believe about industrial society?
A. Urban poverty could only be solved by closing all cities
B. Public
action could address problems such as corruption, unsafe conditions, and
corporate abuses
C. Every industrial problem would disappear without reform
D. Federal and state governments had no role in public welfare
10. What was a muckraker?
A. A journalist who exposed corruption or social abuses
B. An official who distributed Western land
C. A soldier serving in the Philippines
D. A banker who fixed currency exchange rates
11. Which federal laws followed public concern highlighted by Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle?
A. The GI Bill and Marshall Plan
B. The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
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