Question: what did fruit merchants and u.s foreign policy makers have in common?

Answer: Both were interested in opening new markets around the world.

Question: How did advertising create markets?

Answer: advertisers changed the way people viewed products, making them more desirable.

Question: What factor made American industrial growth popular?

Answer: an increase in importing materials

Question: What caused economic downturns in the late 1800s?

Answer: businesses made more goods than people had the money to buy

Question: Why did Americans become more interested in foreign affairs in the late 1800s?

Answer: The economy became more connected to the world economy.

Question: the Panama canal was built to connect:

Answer: the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

Question: rubber for factories in the United States was dependent upon imports from:

Answer: asia and africa

Question: raw material that needed to be imported to the United States included:

Answer: rubber

Question: Which of these items did the u.s. export in the late 19th century?

Answer: farm equipment

Question: What was a goal if Henry Cabot Lodges work as head of the U.S. foreign affairs committee?

Answer: American economic control from world markets.