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Question 1

Dollar Diplomacy is associated primarily with the administration of
 
  A. Warren Harding.
 
  B. William Howard Taft.
 
  C. Theodore Roosevelt.
 
  D. Woodrow Wilson.
 
  E. William McKinley.

Question 2

In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States
 
  A. surrounded the canal site with a Great White Fleet.
 
  B. organized a trade embargo against Colombia.
 
  C. purchased the land for the canal from Colombia.
 
  D. carried out the overthrow of the president of Panama.
 
  E. assisted a revolution in Panama.

Question 3

The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary
 
  A. stated that the U.S. had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.
 
  B. was created as a result of a military crisis in Cuba.
 
  C. was invalidated by the Supreme Court during the Wilson administration.
 
  D. stated that England and England alone was exempted from the Monroe Doctrine.
 
  E. stated that neighboring countries had to adhere to U.S. policy in times of war.

Question 4

Prior to the United States' construction of the Panama Canal,
 
  A. the French had tried but failed to build a canal at the same site.
 
  B. no country had attempted to build a canal connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific.
 
  C. the Germans had failed to build a canal at the same site.
 
  D. the British had failed to build a canal across Costa Rica.
 
  E. the United States had failed to build a canal across Nicaragua.



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