American Pageant Ch 28: Vocab And Matching

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Americanization

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The process of assimilating American character, manner, ideals, culture, and so on. "The Filipinos, who hated compulsory Americanization, preferred liberty"

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sphere of influence

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In internation affairs, the territory where a powerful state exercises the dominant control over weaker states or territories. " they began to tear away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence form the Manchu govt"

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partition

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In politics, the act of dividing a weaker territory or govt among several more powerful states. "Defenseless China was spared partition during these troubled years"

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blue blood

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Person descended form nobility or aristocracy. "What manner of man was Theodore Roosevelt, the red-blooded blue blood?"

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bellicose

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Disposed to fight or go tow war "Incurably boyish and bellicose, Roosevelt loved to fight"

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preparedness

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The accumulation of sufficient armed forces and materiel to go to war "Roosevelt was an ardent champion of military and naval preparedness"

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corollary

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A secondary inference or deduction from a main proposition that is taken as established or proven. "Roosevelt therefore devised a devious policy of 'preventive intervention,' better known as the Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine."

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dictum

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An authoritative edict or assertion. "Roosevelt's corollary bore only a strained relation to the original dictum of 1823"

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preemptive

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The prior appropriation of land or other goods, in order to prevent their appropriation by others. "Yet in its own right the corollary had considerable merit as a preemptive stroke"

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indemnity

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A payment assessed to compensate for an injury or unwarranted action. "The Japanese presented stern demands for a huge indemnity"

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John Hay's clever diplomatic efforts to preserve Chinese territorial integrity and maintain American access to China

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The Open Door Policy

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Antiforeign Chinese revolt of 1900 that brought military intervention by Western troops, including Americans.

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The Boxer Rebellion

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Proverbial symbol of Roosevelt's belief that presidents should engage in diplomacy but also maintain a strong military readiness to back up their policy

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Soft voice big stick

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Diplomatic agreement of 1901 that permitted the United States to build and fortify a Central American canal alone, without British involvement

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the Hay-Paunceforth Treaty

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Nation whose senate in 1902 refused to ratify a treaty permitting the United States to build a canal across its territory

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Colombia

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Agreement between the United States and the revolutionary govt of Panama granting America the right to build a canal

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Bunau-Varilla Treaty

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Questionable extension of a traditional American policy; declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances

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the Roosevelt corollary

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War concluded by Roosevelt-mediated treaty that earned TR the Nobel Peace Prize but caused much ill will toward America from the two signatories

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Russo-Japanese War

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Diplomatic understanding of 1907-1908 that ended a Japanese-American crisis over treatment of Japanese immigrants to the US

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Root-Takahira agreement

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Large US naval force sent on a peaceful but highly visible voyage to Japan and elsewhere in 1907

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Great White Fleet

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American engineer who organized the building of the Panama Canal

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Site of a Roosevelt-mediated international conference on Morocco

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Portsmouth

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Place where a local school board's attempt to segregate Japanese children created an international incident

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San Francisco

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American secretary of state who attempted to preserve Chinese independence and protect American interests in China

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John Hay

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Site of Roosevelt-sponsored negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War

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Portsmouth

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Scheming French engineer who helped stage a revolution in Panama and then became the new country's "instant" foreign minister

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Bunau-Varilla

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Filipino leader of a guerilla war against American rule from 1899 to 1901

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Aguinaldo

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Diplomat, moralizer, wielder of the big stick, "a combination of St. Paul and St. Vitus"

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TR

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Politician who successfully schemed to get TR out of NY and off to Washington

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Platt

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Candidate who waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign o the issue of American imperialism in the Philippines

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Bryan

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The Filipino rebellion against the United States caused

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Led to a costly, dirty war that shocked and dismayed Americans

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The threat of European partition of China caused

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John Hay's energetic and clever Open Door policy

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The Boxer Rebellion caused

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Boss Platt's desire to get Roosevelt out of New York caused

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TR to be sent to the VP and from there to the White House

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The Colombian Senate's refusal to ratify a canal treaty caused

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a Pro-American and procanal revolution that declared in independent panama

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The "Roosevelt corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine and U.S. intervention in Cuba and the Dominican Republic caused

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The Russo-Japanese War caused

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West Coast fear of the "yellow peril" of Japanese immigration caused

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Roosevelt's intervention in the San Francisco School Board crisis caused

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convinced the SF School Board to allow Japanese children into the city's school

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The Great White Fleet's visit to Japan

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paved the way for the Root-Takahira agreement between the US and Japan