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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Portuguese explore the West African coast and round the continent itself?

2. How much difficulty do the Americans have winning most skirmishes?

3. How is the carnage affecting many American troops?

4. How does the insurgent force's policy gradually switch?

5. Theodore Roosevelt is a student of Mahan's THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER ON HISTORY and desires to make the United States what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aguinaldo change his tactics? How does this affect both sides?

2. What happens within ten years of Legazpi's rule?

3. Describe Aguinaldo in mid-1900.

4. What happens when some Spaniards resent the injustice of the Spanish towards the natives?

5. What takes place when Cleveland is replaced by McKinley?

6. Describe life in the Philippines under Spanish rule.

7. What occurs after a rebellion in Cuba takes place?

8. What happens when young Filipino men are educated abroad?

9. What did Prince Henry do for Portuguese exploration?

10. What is happening in the United States during this same time period?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The first circumnavigation of the earth is much less heroic than portrayed in many textbooks.

Part 1) Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the earth? Explain this voyage. Is it what you had expected it to be? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this voyage reflect the needs and desires of those living at the time the exploration took place?

Part 3) How does this exploration affect the relationships between various peoples around the world?

Essay Topic 2

There are both isolationists and expansionists in the United States.

Part 1) What is an isolationist? What is an expansionist? Why were they at odds?

Part 2) How did both of these views affect the United States relationship with the Philippines?

Part 3) Would you consider the United States to be made mostly of isolationists, expansionists, or neither? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Cory Aquino is elected president of the Philippines.

Part 1) Why is she elected? Was she a good choice? Why or why not?

Part 2) Is she able to do what the people ask of her? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does her time as President affect Filipinos?

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