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- to have little to do with the political affairs of other nations
- Isolationism
- extending its national boundaries
- Expansionism
- an 1854 treaty between Japan and the United States that opened up ports to American trade in Japan
- Treaty of Kanagawa
- to take over
- Annex
- the policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions
- Imperialism
- the belief that one race is superior to another
- Racism
- name for the steam-powered ships of the enlarged and modernized American navy of the early 1900’s
- Great White Fleet
- an area usually around a seaport, where a nation had special trading privileges
- Sphere of influence
- policy issued by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 that allowed a nation to trade in any other nation’s sphere of influence in China
- Open Door Policy
- uprising in China against westerners and Western influence in 1900
- Boxer Rebellion