America on the World Stage
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- Open Door
- John Hays clever diplomatic afforts to preserve Chinese territorial integrity and maintain American access to China
- Boxer Rebellion
- Antiforeign Chinses revolt of 1900 that brought military intervention by Western troops, including Americans
- Big Stick
- proverbial symbol of Roosevelts belief that presidents should engage in diplomacy but also maintain a strony military readiness to back up their policy
- Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
- diplomatic agreement of 1901 that permitted the United States to build and fortify a Central American canal alone, without British involvement
- Colombia
- Nation whose senate in 1902 refused to ratify a treaty permitting the United States to build a canal across its territory
- Hay-Bunau-Varilla
- agreement between the US and the revolutionary government of Panama granting America the right to build a canal
- Roosevelt Corolary
- questionable extension of the Monroe Doctrine that declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances
- Russo-Japanese
- war concluded by Roosevelt-mediated treaty that earned TR the Nobel Peace Prize but caused much ill will toard America frm the two signatories
- "Genetlemens Agreement"
- 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
- Great White Fleet
- large US naval force sent on a peaceful but highly visible voyage to japan and elsewhere in 1907
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Filipino leader of a guerilla war against American rule from 1899 to 1901
- John Hay
- American secretary of state who ateempted to preserve Chinese independence and protect American interests in China
- William Jennings Bryan
- candidate who waged an unseccuessful presidential campaign on the issue of American imperialism in the Philippines
- Theodore Roosevelt
- diplomat, moralizer, wielder of the big stick, "a combination of St Paul and St Vitus"
- Philippe Bunau-Varilla
- scheming French engineer who helped stage a revolution in Panama and then became the new country's "instant" foreign minister
- Thomas Platt
- politician who successfully schemed to get TR out of New york and off to Washington
- George Washington Goethals
- American engineer who arganized the building of the Panama Canal
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- site of Roosevelt-sponsored negotiations that eneded the Russo-Japanese War
- San Francisco, California
- place where a local school boards attempt to segregate Japanese chldren created an international incident
- Algeciras, SPain
- site of a Roosevelt mediated internatinal conference on Morocco
- the Filipino rebellion against the US
- led to a costly dirty war the shocked and dismayed Americans
- the threat of European parition of China
- led to John Hays energetic and clever Open Door diplomacy
- the Boxer Rebellion
- brought a foreign expedition into China and forced China to pay an indemnity to the US
- Boss Platt's desire to get Roosevelt out of New York
- sent TR to the vice presidency and from there to the White House
- the Colombian Senates refusal to raitfy a canal treaty
- resulted in a pro American and procanal revolution that declared an independent Panama
- the "Roosevelt corollary" to the Monroa Doctrine and US intervention in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
- created strong anti American feeling in latin America
- the Russo Japanese War
- sent waves of new Japanese immigrants into California
- West Coast fear of the "yellow peril" of Japanese immigration
- prompted the San Francisco school segregation crisis of 1906
- Roosevelts intervention in the San Francisco School Broad Crisis
- convinced the San Francisco School Board to allow Japanese children into the city's schools
- the Great White Fleets visit to Japan
- paved the way for the Root-Takahira agreement between the US and Japan