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What terms means to have a hatred or fear of foreigners? |
Xenophobia |
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What were the trading sections of china called that were controlled by foreign nations? |
Spheres of influence |
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What secretary of state issued a series of statements that opened up trade in china to all nations? |
John hay |
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What were these statements called? |
The open door notes or open door policy |
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What nationalist group of young chinese hated all foreigners? |
The boxers (society if harmonioud fists) |
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What was TR's foreign policy known as? |
His big stick policy |
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Where did this come from? |
African proverb, "speak softly and carry a big stick" |
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What type of foreign policy did the us practice before 1890? |
Isolationism |
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What term means territorial growth while placing control over other people throuvh annexation, conquest or domination? |
Imperialism |
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What applied survival if the fittest to countries? |
International darwinism |
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What is the extreme and emotional nationalism; often characterized by an aggressive forgien policy? |
Jingoism |
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What was the purchase of alaska from the russians called by critics? |
"Sewards folly" or "sewards icebox" |
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What two countries were at war from 1904 to 1905? |
Russia and japan |
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Where did russia and japan meet to negotiate a treaty? |
Portsmouth, NH (treaty of portsmouth) |
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Where was the first shot of the war fired? |
In the Philippines, not in cuba where everyone expected |
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Who was the assistant secretary of the navy? |
Teddy Roosevelt |
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What naval commander took the Philippines in only a few months |
Commander george dewey |
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What volunteer unit did TR lead in cuba after resigning as aecretary of the navy? |
The rough riders |
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What did secretary of state John hay call the war? |
"The splendid little war" |
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what american doctor helped to reduce yellow fever in cuba? |
Walter reed |
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What treaty ended the war? |
The treaty of paris 1898 |
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What americand first arrived in hawaii in 1820? |
Missionaries then sugsr planters |
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What harbor was granted to the us by hawaii? |
Pearl harbor |
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What queen of hawaii was overthrown by american planters? |
Queen lilioukalani |
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Who was the presisdent of the new republic of hawaii |
Sanford dole |
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Under what president did the navy begin to grow? |
Chester Arthur |
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What head of the newport naval war college wrote the infulence of sea upon history in 1890 |
Alfred thayler mahan |
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What north american possession of Spain staged a revolt in 1895? |
Cuba |
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What two us journalists reported of the atrocities? |
Joseph politzer and william randolph hearst |
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What was their sensationalistic writing style called |
Yellow journalism |
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What was the goal of this style of reporting? |
Sell papers and sway public opinion |
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What spanish ambassador to the us had a letter stolen and printed by william hearst? |
Dupuy de lome |
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What us battleship was sunk outside of Havana, cuba |
uss maine |
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When congress declared war in cuba in 1898 what amendment was added to it? |
Teller amendment |
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What group in the us opposed tsking over foreign islands? |
The Anti-imperialist league - mark twaine, william jennings bryan, samuel gompers and andrew carnegie |
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What resulted next in the Philippines? |
The philippine - american war (1899-1903);more bloody than the spanish american war |
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Who led this movement against the us |
Emilio aguinaldo |
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Who did mckinley appoint as governor of the philippines? |
William taft |
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What policy of TR strengthened the monroe doctrine? |
The roosevelt corollary |
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What did the roosevelt corollary say? |
The us would ik ntervene to stope eurpoean intervention in the Americas |
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A question was raised in the philippines - should the constitution follow the flag? What was the supreme court decision? |
The insular cases - insular means island |
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What were the 16 battleships called that TR sent around the world? |
The great white fleet |
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What act gave puerto rico their independence? |
The foraker act |
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What ammendment did the us add to cubas new constitution? |
The platt amendment |
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What naval base did the us receive in this treaty? |
Guantanamo bay |
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Who succeeded TR in 1909 |
William taft |
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What was his foreign policy known as? |
dollar diplomacy |
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What revolt did TR secretly support? |
Panamas revolt |
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2ho did panama break away from? |
Columbia (us paid them 25 million) |
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Who originally began the panama canal? |
The french |
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What treaty between the us and panama initiated the canal? |
Hay-bunau varilla treaty |
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Why was TRs panama canal visit significant? |
It was the first time a sitting president left the us |
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What did the us becone because if the roosevelt corollary |
The "policement of the world" |
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What was TRs worst holiday? |
Valentines day |
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What city on long idland did TR move to? |
Oyster bay |
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Where did wilson aid a revolution agaisnt a dictatorship? |
Mexico |
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Where were the us sailors arrested in mexico in 1914? |
Tampico |
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what mexican revolutionary led raids across the mexican border, killing some Americans in texas and new mexico |
Pancho villa |
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What us general was ordered to hunt for villa |
Gen. John J. Pershing (black jack) |
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What did TR call investigative reporters? |
Muckrakers |
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what was the muckrakers goals |
To expose inequality and corruption |
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What was the informal agreement called between the us and japan in 1908 |
The gentlemens agreement |
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What us statement told non european powers that they could not purchase land in the western hemisphere |
The lodge corollary |
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Who succeeded william taft in 1913 |
Woodrow wilson |
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What was wilsons policy known as? |
Moral diplomacy |
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Who was wilsons sec of state |
William jennings bryan |
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What was the cause if the progressive movement? |
The gilded age |
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Who were the three progressive presidents |
TR, taft and wilson |
