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11 Cards in this Set
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Big Sister policy |
Opened up Latin American markets to Yankee traders |
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McKinley Tariff |
Raised duties on Hawaiian sugar and set off renewed efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. |
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Teller Amendment |
When the U.S. had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba it's freedlm |
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Anti-Imperialist League |
A diverse group formed in order to protest American colonial oversight in the Philippines |
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Foraker Act |
Gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government |
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Platt Amendment |
Limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled it's debt, and stipulated that the U.S. could intervene militarily to restore order |
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Open Door note |
Set of diplomatic letters in which Secretary of State John Hay urged the great powers to respect Chinese rights and free and open competition within their spheres of influence |
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Boxer Rebellion |
An uprising in China directed against foreign influence |
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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
Gave Americans a free hand to build a canal in Central America, which prohibited the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, which prohibited U.S. or Britain from acquiring Central American territories |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
U.S. has right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations in order to restore military and financial order |
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Root-Takahira agreement |
U.S. & Japan agree to respect one another's territorial possessions in the Pacific |
