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19 Cards in this Set
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john hay
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a secretary of state and witty poet-novelist-diplomat who caught the popular imagination. He dispatched the Open Door note
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open door policy
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urged all of the great powers to announce that in their leaseholds or spheres of influence they would respect certain chinese rights and the ideal of fair competition
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boxer rebellion
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revolt by a chinese super patriotic group in which over two hundred missionaries and their ill-fated whites were murdered and a number of foreign diplomats were besieged in the capital Beijing. The rebellion was quelled by a multinational rescue force.
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McKinley's assassination
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six months into McKinley's second term, he was murdered by a deranged anarchist and vice president Roosevelt became president
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Clayton Bulwer Treaty
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concluded with Britain that the United States could not secure exclusive control over a route such as the Panama canal
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Hay-Ponceforte Treaty
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not only gave the United States a free hand to build the Panama Canal but conceded the right to fortify it as well
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Hay/Bunau-Varilla treaty
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the price of the canal strip was left the same at $40 million but the zone was widened from six to ten miles
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Panamanian revolution
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occurred with the incidental killing of a Chinese civilian and a donkey. Colombian troops were gathered to crush the uprising but U.S. naval forces would not let them cross
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Col. George Washington Goethals
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an autocratic West Point engineer, he perfected the organization of the digging of the Panama Canal
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Col. William Gorgas
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exterminated yellow fever from Havana and ultimately making the Canal Zone “as safe as a health resort”
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Roosevelt Corollary
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declared that in the event of future financial malfeasance by he Latin American nations, the United States itself would intervene, take over the customshouses, pay off the debts, and keep the troublesome powers on the other side of the Atlantic. (No outsiders could push around the Latin nations, except Uncle Sam, Policeman of the Caribbean)
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Dominican intervention
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the U.S. took over the management of tariff collections in the Dominican Republican, an arrangement formalized with a treaty two years later
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Cuban intervention 1906
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Americans intervened when revolutionary disorders brought an appeal from the Cuban presidentm and “necessity being the mother of invention,” U.S. marines were landed
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Russo-Japanese War
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War that gave Roosevelt a chance to perform as a global statesman between Russia and Japan over Manchuria and Korea, eventually won by the Japanese
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Portsmouth Conference
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Roosevelt served as the mediator between the delegates from Russia and Japan at this conference in New Hampshire. The Japanese presented stern demands for a huge indemnity and the island of Sakhalin while the Russians refused to admit the depths of their defeat. Roosevelt forced an accord in which the Japanese received no compensation and only the southern half of Sakhalin
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San Francisco school incident
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coping with the aftermath of a frightful earthquake and fire, ordered the segregation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students in a special school to free more space for whites. Californians were induced to repeal the offensive school order and to accept what came to be known as the Gentlemen’s Agreement
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Gentlemen’s Agreement
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the Japanese agreed to stop the flow of laborers to the American mainland by withholding passports
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The Great White Fleet
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battleships starting from Virginia waters that received tumultuous welcomes in Latin America, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia, making an important contribution to peace
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Root-Takahira Agreement
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the United States and Japan solemnly pledged themselves to respect each other’s territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door in China
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