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39 Cards in this Set
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What is the Anti-Imperialist League? |
established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area |
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What is the Big-Stick foreign policy? |
“speak “speak softly and carry a big stick.” be kind but intimidating |
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What is the Black Legend? |
Morally invest in the education of people you think are dumber than you because of their origin |
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What was the Boxer Rebellion? |
Boxers are a secret society of chinese nationalist. Attacked foreign ministries and murdered dozens of Christian missionaries. *xenophobia- (don’t want foreigners in their country)* |
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What is Dollar Diplomacy? |
-Encouraged private American financial investment in China and Central America -guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
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Who is Emilio Aguinaldo? |
he achieved independence of the Philippines from Spain and was elected the first president of the new republic under the Malolos Congress |
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Who is General Jacob Smith? |
Philippine-American War (torture, prosecuting a war throughout a countryside, male 10 or older, controversial) |
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What was the “Gentleman’s Agreement"? |
TR arranged this agreement. Japan agreed to restrict immigration and TR would persuade CA to repeal discriminatory laws. |
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What was the Great White Fleet? |
To demonstrate U.S. naval power, TR sent fleet of battleships on “WORLD TOUR” (1907-1909). Impressed by sight, Tokyo WARMLY received fleet. |
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Hay-Paunceforte Treaty |
foreign powers to relinquish their powers |
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Hay-Buena Faria |
overthrow panama exclusive government of 50 mile stretch USA owns part of their country |
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What is Imperialism? |
argument that because of a nation's commercial/material interests, it is essential to find/possess/maintain and protect foreign possessions |
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What were the Insular Cases? |
Supreme Court cases that sought to answer the question: Does the Constitution follow the flag? |
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Who were the Insurrectos (Philippines)? |
fighting for Philippine independence against anyone trying to suppress them. |
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Who is John Hay? |
open door policy agreements with the panama canal |
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What was the Jones Act (1916)? |
granted territorial status to the Philippines -promised Philippine independence upon the creation of a stable government |
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What was the Lodge Corollary? |
HCL feared JAPAN had intentionsof purchasing Mexico's Baja Peninsula. In 1912 he introduced a SENATE resolution to preventnon-European powers from owning territory in the Western Hemisphere |
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Mark Twain’s “War Prayer” |
recall the poem we read and videos we watched about people praying for war and not thinking about the consequences |
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Mexican Civil War/Revolutions |
pancho villa and woodrow wilson, moral obligation to instruct mexicans to be more civilized and to have a better country, state of anarchy |
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Moral Diplomacy |
the system in which support is given only to countries whosemoral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation |
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Nicaragua (Marine intervention) |
prime examples in dollar diplomacy and moral diplomacy, using military force to stabilize |
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Who won the Nobel peace prize and for what? |
teddy roosevelt wins for the portsmouth treaty |
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What is the Open Door policy? |
a policy which would allow equal trading privileges for all countries, Hay asked for in 1899 |
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Panama Canal |
Began in 1904 and finished in 1914Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903): granted US long-term control of “canal zone” |
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Philippine-American War and McKinley rationale |
make them money, filipinos can't govern themselves, can't give them back to spain (abyss), brother’s keeper ($, christianize, spain :(, filipinos=unfit) (Brooke wrote this) |
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Platt Amendment |
US armed forces, businesses, and politicians oversee Cuban development |
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President William McKinley |
-vice to Roosevelt - McKinley reelected, inaugurated March 1901 -September 5, 1901: President McKinley Assassinated (died 9/14) |
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President Theodore Roosevelt |
-foreign policy motto: “speak softly and carry a big stick.” -portsmouth conference -The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
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President William Howard Taft |
-dollar diplomacy -secured American participation in a joint trans-Chinese railroad venture with European nations -sent Marines to Nicaragua in 1912 (remained until 1933) |
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President Woodrow Wilson |
-campaigned against Imperialism, The Big Stick and Dollar Diplomacy -blockaded Mexican ports and occupied Vera Cruz -moral diplomacy |
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What is the Roosevelt Corollary? |
-student loans on a national scale -US sailors and marines would occupy the country's major ports to ENSURE the collection of customs taxes until European debts satisfied |
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What is the Root-Takahira Agreement? |
-mutually respect each other's Pacific possession -support the Open Door policy in CHINA |
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Russo-Japanese War |
1904-05 Imperialist Conflict between Japan and Russia |
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What are the Songs of the Spanish-American War? |
song lyrics about democracy, freedom |
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Spheres of Influence (China) |
area where foreign nations could Dominate trade and investment and shut out competitors |
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Teller Amendment |
the US would help Cuba gain independance and then withdraw all its troops from the country |
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The “White Man’s” Burden |
an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War |
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Treaty of Portsmouth |
displaying the US emergent foreign diplomatic status between Japan and Russia |
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What is Xenophobia |
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. Had risen in China during the boxer rebellion |
