Why Did Theodore Roosevelt Send the Great White Fleet on a World

question 88

Multiple Choice

Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the Great White Fleet on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?

• A) to conquer new colonial territories for the United States
• B) to fight the Japanese effort to conquer the Philippines
• C) to demonstrate that the United States had arrived as a world power
• D) to defeat the Boxer Rebellion in Peking
• E) to avenge the surprise Russian attack on U.S. forces in Manila Bay

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