B#3 Expanding Role

9-12 Benchmark 1-B.

United States: analyze and evaluate the impact of major eras, events and individuals in United States history since the civil war and reconstruction:

#3 Standards and Specifications:

Analyze the United States’ expanding role in the world during the late 19th and 20th centuries, to include:

a. causes for a change in foreign policy from isolationism to interventionism; causes and consequences of the Spanish American war;

b. expanding influence in the western hemisphere (e.g., the Panama canal; Roosevelt corollary added to the Monroe doctrine, the “big stick” policy, and “dollar diplomacy”);

c. events that led to the United States’ involvement in World War I; United States’ rationale for entry into World War I and impact on military process, public opinion and policy;

e. United States’ impact on the outcome of World War I; United States’ role in settling the peace (e.g., Woodrow Wilson, Treaty of Versailles, league of nations, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.).

Specifications:

● Understand the goals of Imperialism

Sample Question: History.I.1-B.3e

Read the excerpt, and then answer the question that follows.

“I hope that we can persuade our people on the one hand to act in a spirit of generous justice and genuine courtesy toward Japan, and on the other hand to keep the navy respectable in numbers and more than respectable in the efficiency of its units. If we act thus we need not fear the Japanese. But if…….we show ourselves ‘opulent, aggressive, and unarmed,’ the Japanese may sometime work us an injury.”

- President Theodore Roosevelt

This statement best reflects Roosevelt’s support for which action?

A. the Monroe Doctrine

B. the Big Stick Diplomacy *

C. the Open Door Policy

D. the Roosevelt Corollary

●Understand the goals of Imperialism

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a. causes for a change in foreign policy from isolationism to interventionism; causes and consequences of the Spanish American war;

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b. expanding influence in the western hemisphere (e.g., the Panama canal; Roosevelt corollary added to the Monroe doctrine, the “big stick” policy, and “dollar diplomacy”);

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b. expanding influence in the western hemisphere (e.g., the Panama canal; Roosevelt corollary added to the Monroe doctrine, the “big stick” policy, and “dollar diplomacy”);

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b. expanding influence in the western hemisphere (e.g., the Panama canal; Roosevelt corollary added to the Monroe doctrine, the “big stick” policy, and “dollar diplomacy”);

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