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30 Cards in this Set
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Open Door
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John Hays clever diplomatic afforts to preserve Chinese territorial integrity and maintain American access to China
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Boxer Rebellion
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Antiforeign Chinses revolt of 1900 that brought military intervention by Western troops, including Americans
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Big Stick
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proverbial symbol of Roosevelts belief that presidents should engage in diplomacy but also maintain a strony military readiness to back up their policy
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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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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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Colombia
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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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Hay-Bunau-Varilla
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agreement between the US and the revolutionary government of Panama granting America the right to build a canal
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Roosevelt Corolary
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questionable extension of the Monroe Doctrine that declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances
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Russo-Japanese
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war concluded by Roosevelt-mediated treaty that earned TR the Nobel Peace Prize but caused much ill will toard America frm the two signatories
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"Genetlemens Agreement"
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diplomatic understanding of 1907-1908 that allowed Japanese American children to attend California schools in exchange for Japans curtailment of further Japanese emigration to the United States
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Great White Fleet
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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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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Filipino leader of a guerilla war against American rule from 1899 to 1901
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John Hay
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American secretary of state who ateempted to preserve Chinese independence and protect American interests in China
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William Jennings Bryan
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candidate who waged an unseccuessful presidential campaign on the issue of American imperialism in the Philippines
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Theodore Roosevelt
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diplomat, moralizer, wielder of the big stick, "a combination of St Paul and St Vitus"
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Philippe Bunau-Varilla
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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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Thomas Platt
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politician who successfully schemed to get TR out of New york and off to Washington
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George Washington Goethals
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American engineer who arganized the building of the Panama Canal
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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site of Roosevelt-sponsored negotiations that eneded the Russo-Japanese War
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San Francisco, California
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place where a local school boards attempt to segregate Japanese chldren created an international incident
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Algeciras, SPain
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site of a Roosevelt mediated internatinal conference on Morocco
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the Filipino rebellion against the US
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led to a costly dirty war the shocked and dismayed Americans
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the threat of European parition of China
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led to John Hays energetic and clever Open Door diplomacy
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the Boxer Rebellion
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brought a foreign expedition into China and forced China to pay an indemnity to the US
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Boss Platt's desire to get Roosevelt out of New York
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sent TR to the vice presidency and from there to the White House
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the Colombian Senates refusal to raitfy a canal treaty
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resulted in a pro American and procanal revolution that declared an independent Panama
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the "Roosevelt corollary" to the Monroa Doctrine and US intervention in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
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created strong anti American feeling in latin America
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the Russo Japanese War
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sent waves of new Japanese immigrants into California
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West Coast fear of the "yellow peril" of Japanese immigration
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prompted the San Francisco school segregation crisis of 1906
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Roosevelts intervention in the San Francisco School Broad Crisis
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convinced the San Francisco School Board to allow Japanese children into the city's schools
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the Great White Fleets visit to Japan
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paved the way for the Root-Takahira agreement between the US and Japan
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